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Facing Own Death & cancer

Below are the best resources we could find on Facing Own Death and cancer.

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Terminally Ill 29-year-old to End Her Life

Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Brittany Maynard made the decision to take her own life and made a video explaining why.

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End

Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming the dangers of childbirth, injury, and disease from harrowing to manageable. But when it comes to the inescapable realities of aging and death, what medicine can do often runs counter to what it should.

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What Cancer Takes Away

When I got sick, I warned my friends: Don’t try to make me stop thinking about death.

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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families

One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Ira Byock

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How ‘Death Doulas’ Can Help People at the End of Their Life

They’re changing how we approach end-of-life care.

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Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying

Former NEA fellow and Pushcart Prize–winning writer Sallie Tisdale offers a lyrical, thought-provoking, yet practical perspective on death and dying in Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them).

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Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdom from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition

We all face death, but how many of us are actually ready for it? Whether our own death or that of a loved one comes first, how prepared are we, spiritually or practically? In Preparing to Die, Andrew Holecek presents a wide array of resources to help the reader address this unfinished business.

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A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death

“There is nothing wrong with you for dying,” hospice physician B.J. Miller and journalist and caregiver Shoshana Berger write in A Beginner’s Guide to the End. “Our ultimate purpose here isn’t so much to help you die as it is to free up as much life as possible until you do.

BJ Miller, Shoshana Berger

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The Grace in Dying: How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die

This landmark revisioning of the stages of dying, brilliantly conceived and beautifully written, reveals how the dying process naturally carries us through a profound psychological and spiritual transformation as we reconnect with the source of our being.

Kathleen D. Singh

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How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter (New Edition)

A runaway bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death.

Sherwin B. Nuland

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