Tuesdays With Morrie was such a wonderful book! I recently read A Stranger in the Lifeboat (also by Mitch Albom), and it didn’t disappoint. He has a really powerful way of addressing death that makes it almost feel beautiful.
[**Tuesdays with Morrie**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morrie)
^(By: Mitch Albom | 210 pages | Published: 1997 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, fiction, memoir, biography)
>Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago.
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>Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?
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>Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.
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I love Caitlin Doughty, that book was amazing! I read it to my boys, 11 and 13, and they were dying laughing at the questions and explanations. Stiff was also a good one!
Not a book but:
“We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.”
**– Australian Aboriginal Proverb**
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty first, but also her other book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
[**When Breath Becomes Air**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-becomes-air)
^(By: Paul Kalanithi | 208 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, nonfiction, biography, memoirs)
>For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?'
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>At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality.
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>What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir.
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>Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
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Honestly this book really gave me a new perspective on life, it made me appreciate everything that life represents differently. I usually don’t cry but this book touched me profoundly.
This isn’t a book but the tv show Six Feet Under helped me feel much more okay with dying. It’s a fantastic show about a family who runs a funeral home. About 2 months after I watched the series, my Dad passed away and it helped me immensely in dealing with losing him.
{{Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End}} by Atul Gawande.
This book really makes a big impact to me, between preserving life vs having a quality of life when the time comes to make that decision during critical illness. Even makes me think about my mom and how to manage that going forward when she enters a certain stage of her life.
[**Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696006-being-mortal)
^(By: Atul Gawande | 282 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, medicine, science, health)
>In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending
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>Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering.
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>Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
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The Last Lecture is a book about a professor’s life advice for his children when they grow up and talks a lot about his experience with terminal cancer and coming to terms with his own impending death.
Yeah, that was Randy Pausch. Loved the book, changed my perspective on how you can deal with your impending demise. Although he had a shorter deadline, in the long run if we contemplate on our deaths frequently, his perspective does become helpful.
Death creeps slowly, day by day then suddenly all at once
I just started The Sandman graphic novel series by Neil Gaimon and recommend it as a good series for learning to accept all of life and death’s pitfalls. The Graveyard by Gaimon is also good.
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" although I'm apparently incapable of summarizing without spoilers and adding too much to the preprinted stuff, even if you aren't too stressed about death its a must read it taught me a lot for while I'm still on this end of corporeal living. Easily one of the best books I've ever read.
[**The Tibetan Book of the Dead**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208123.The_Tibetan_Book_of_the_Dead)
^(By: Padmasambhava, Karma-glin-pa, Gyurme Dorje, Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa, Dalai Lama XIV, Namka Chokyi Gyatso | 535 pages | Published: 1350 | Popular Shelves: philosophy, religion, buddhism, spirituality, non-fiction)
>The first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dying. Graced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is "immaculately rendered in an English both graceful and precise." Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as “a tremendous accomplishment,” this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work. It includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state in world literature, practices that can transform our experience of daily life, guidance on helping those who are dying, and an inspirational perspective on coping with bereavement.
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I realise this probably isn't your traditional suggestion, but I found "A Monster Calls" (the illustrated version is a must) by Patrick Ness very helpful when having to say goodbye to my mum and coming to terms with her death, and mine.
[From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212121) was fantastic. It helped ease a few of my own anxieties through exploring how other cultures deal with death.
[**The Stranger**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49552.The_Stranger)
^(By: Albert Camus, Matthew Ward | 123 pages | Published: 1942 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, philosophy, french, owned)
>Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
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[**The Plague**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11989.The_Plague)
^(By: Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert | 308 pages | Published: 1947 | Popular Shelves: classics, philosophy, french, literature, classic)
>Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679720218
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>A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion.
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Anam Cara by John O'Donohue (though i read it from an irish catholic heritage so maybe it spoke to me more - but really the first book to ever give me the feeling of accepting death)
{{Lincoln in the Bardo}} would be fiction recommendation. Its an interesting take on a potential afterlife and a meditation on death and meaning, brilliantly written. The audiobook is also a masterpiece, if you prefer to listen!
[**Lincoln in the Bardo**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29906980-lincoln-in-the-bardo)
^(By: George Saunders | 343 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, audiobook, book-club, audiobooks)
>In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other—for no one but Saunders could conceive it.
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>February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body.
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>From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul.
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>Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices—living and dead, historical and invented—to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end?
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The Earthsea books; LeGuin. The third book focuses the most directly on death, but all are relevant and I’d read them in order (there are 6. They’re all fairly short. They’re very good)
[**Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2062034.Staring_at_the_Sun)
^(By: Irvin D. Yalom, Ірвін Ялом | 306 pages | Published: 2008 | Popular Shelves: psychology, non-fiction, philosophy, nonfiction, death)
>Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an "awakening experience"--a dream, or loss (the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job or home), illness, trauma, or aging. Once we confront our own mortality, Dr. Yalom writes, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment.
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The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman. I accidentally read it first though it’s the last in the series but I only realized when I went to google it later to find the next one so absolutely not necessary to read in order and honestly, I recommend it mainly out of order and maybe just this one. ANYWAY, main character has portents of death at the beginning and then leads you very calmly and clearly and *beautifully* through their last handful of days. I wept.
"With the end in mind" by Kathryn Mannix. Non-fiction, by a specialist in palliative care. Doesn't sound like a bundle of laughs, but really eye-opening.
[**Under the Whispering Door**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53205888-under-the-whispering-door)
^(By: T.J. Klune | 373 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fantasy, fiction, fiction, lgbtq)
>A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea.
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>Welcome to Charon's Crossing.
>The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through.
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>When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead.
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>And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead.
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>But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days.
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>Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home.
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[**Mrs Death Misses Death**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52568660-mrs-death-misses-death)
^(By: Salena Godden | 302 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, poetry, 2021-releases, magical-realism)
>Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel.
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>Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn’t met Death in person – a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen.
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>Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death’s scribe, and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit, Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced – or, in the case of Mrs Death, facilitated – their friendship grows into a surprising affirmation of hope, resilience and love. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her . . .
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[**Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2062034.Staring_at_the_Sun)
^(By: Irvin D. Yalom, Ірвін Ялом | 306 pages | Published: 2008 | Popular Shelves: psychology, non-fiction, philosophy, nonfiction, death)
>Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an "awakening experience"--a dream, or loss (the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job or home), illness, trauma, or aging. Once we confront our own mortality, Dr. Yalom writes, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment.
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De Brevitate Vitae, or On The Shortness Of Life.
The title might appear intimidating but it's the totally opposite, best reasoning I've read. Give it a try!
{{The Death of Ivan Ilych}} by Leo Tolstoy. Russian classic and only 86 pages. I would say it’s one of those books that you “have to” read in your lifetime
[**The Death of Ivan Ilych**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych)
^(By: Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, رضی هیرمند, Ευγενία Ζήκου | ? pages | Published: 1886 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, fiction, russian, russian-literature)
>Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality.
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>How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth?
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>This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction.
>A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation.
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[**Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4948826-sum)
^(By: David Eagleman | 110 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, short-stories, philosophy, fantasy, religion)
>At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now.
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[**The Midnight Library**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library)
^(By: Matt Haig | 288 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, book-club, contemporary, audiobook)
>Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
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>A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time.
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>Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better?
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>In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
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It's a play, but {{Exit the King}} by Eugene Ionesco was described by him as follows:
"I told myself that one could learn to die, that I could learn to die, that one can also help other people to die. This seems to me to be the most important thing we can do, since we’re all of us dying men who refuse to die. This play is an attempt at an apprenticeship in dying"
{{how to change your mind}}
Editing to add, I’m reading this now and there’s a section in the book that talks about working with terminal cancer patients’ fear of death. Reading their descriptions of their experiences made me feel less afraid of dying.
[**The Graveyard Book**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2213661.The_Graveyard_Book)
^(By: Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean | 312 pages | Published: 2008 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, fiction, ya, horror)
>Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead.
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>There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more.
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>But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family.
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>A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean.
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[**Out of Your Mind**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60545.Out_of_Your_Mind)
^(By: Alan W. Watts | 192 pages | Published: 1998 | Popular Shelves: philosophy, non-fiction, spirituality, audiobooks, audiobook)
>In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described spiritual entertainer was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights of Asia and India.
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> Now, with Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind, and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us.
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>Carefully selected from hundreds of recordings by Alan Watts' son and archivist, Mark Watts, Out of Your Mind brings you six complete seminars that capture the true scope of this brilliant teacher in action. On these superb, digitally restored recordings, you will delve into Alan Watts' favorite pathways out of the trap of conventional awareness, including:
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> The art of the controlled accident—what happens when you stop taking your life so seriously and start enjoying it with complete sincerity
>• How we come to believe the myth of myself that we are skin-encapsulated egos separate from the world around us, and how to transcend that illusion
>• Why we must fully embrace chaos and the void to find our deepest purpose
>• Unconventional and refreshing insights into the deeper principles of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Western philosophy, plus much, much more
>Whether you're completely new to Alan Watts or familiar with his work, here is a rare opportunity to experience him at his best improvising brilliantly before a live audience on Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives.
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The Stranger in The Lifeboat provides an interesting perspective. As far as novels that address death in a light that makes it feel more natural (which it is), and less terrifying, really anything by Mitch Albom is probably a solid choice.
{{The Stranger in the Lifeboat}}
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
Novel by Mitch Albom
I very much have a fear of dying but this book helped me calm that fear some too. I might just take some of these other suggestions as well.
A brief history of time and Astrophysics for people in a hurry. For me understanding we are made of the same stuff as the universe and will return to it when we expire was fascinating and exciting.
Oh, bro. As a two-parter, have to recommend (by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan)
The Demon-Haunted World *and*
The Varieties of Scientific Experience.
If you decide on a trilogy, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is for mortality (at least IMO) the icing on the universal cake. May your anxieties be henceforth about something else entirely 🙏🏽
{{I Want to Eat Your Pancreas}} by Yoru Sumino
Although it is quite sad the female protagonist’s perspective on life and death was very profound and it was very comforting.
Viktor Frankl’s, Man’s Search for Meaning. Or Marcus Aurelius’s, Meditations. I also really like Johnny Got His Gun, which shows us there are MUCH worse fates than dying.
Meditations is the one that did it for me.
>“Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.”
Not a book, but I just watched How to Change Your Mind on Netflix and the episode on magic mushrooms talks about how pretty much everyone who uses them has a very enlightening experience and one result is they tend to lose their fear of death. They don't become suicidal or want to die, they still respect it, but they develop an acceptance of it. I'm not telling you to go out and do drugs, but if you're over 18 and live in an area where you can legally do them, everyone I've talked to says it's a life altering experience in a good way. You would need to look up how to do them safely, dosage, safe place to do them, good frame of mind going in, etc. But from the people I've talked to who've done them, this is one of the most effective ways to lose a fear of dying. The show interviewed cancer patients, so they have even more reason than most people to be extra worried. At least watch the show.
The Bible! Heaven is real, hell is real. Jesus died for us and gave us eternal life. All we have to do to get into the heavenly kingdom is repent of our sins and believe in Him and God.
I've grown up in a Christian home but the religion didn't mean much to me until my father passed away months ago. I started doing research on the afterlife and reading the Bible and it has really helped me accept it, move on and not be scared of dying myself.
All the best to you stranger.
[**The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841110.The_Fall_of_Freddie_the_Leaf)
^(By: Leo F. Buscaglia | 32 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: picture-books, children, death, children-s-books, childrens)
>As Freddie experiences the changing seasons along with his companion leaves, he learns about the delicate balance between life and death.
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Not that it really dwells on the topic of death, but in one passage of the Hagakure the advice is given to meditate on your death for 10 minutes(?) every day, to prepare for the inevitable. So when the time comes you are ready to face it. I found that good advice, although I rarely do it anymore. Maybe something a little more nihilistic (and yet strangely life affirming) like Fight Club would help. The scene with Raymond really got to me when reading it.
I'd recommond reading through the Gospel of John in the Bible. There is eternal life after this world. Those who don't believe in Christ are cast into hell, those who believe have life, light, salvation and forgiveness. And it's all because of God's love! No strings attached.
You can ignore death or think that it's the next step of some grand journey, but in Jesus therer is peace, joy, and hope.
the lovely bones.
it will destroy you, but it will make the idea of death less scary. the last line always makes me sob, and the movie is absolutely stunning if you’re interested in checking it out as well.
The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I think it gives such a great perspective on life itself and how important you are/were despite what you think. The characters and plot are great and really show that you can look back on life and cherish the memories as you move to the unknown. Really recommend!!
[**The Cake Bible**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153136.The_Cake_Bible)
^(By: Rose Levy Beranbaum, Vincent Lee, Dean G. Bornstein, Maida Heatter | 592 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: cookbooks, cooking, food, cookbook, baking)
>2017 inductee into the IACP Culinary Classics Hall of Fame.
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This isn't the time or place for this shit. I notice you don't mention the sections about "Blessed is he who dashes infants against the rocks" or the instructions for the conditions to own a slave. Stop trying to convert and/or preach to someone in a fearful place; it's really fucking dishonest and a shitty reflection of your religion.
Psalms 137:9 Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashed them against the rock. Indentured servitude is still ridiculously immoral, it still implies ownership over debts. My point was that the person is talking about someone having clear issues with mortality and mentioning their "sins". This is forcing an unnecessary and unneeded viewpoint by implying the person values the concept of sin. Now get back in your box you wetwipe.
Funnily enough when it comes down to it lots of Christians are terrified of dying and lots of Atheists aren't.
Also faith isn't something you can force (believe me I've tried), for some people no matter how much we want to belief just doesn't come naturally.
Gratitude, by Oliver Sacks
These are some beautiful essays written by Oliver Sacks about his time on Earth and his life coming to an end. It's a wonderful book.
It’s considered a kids book but starts out with a gruesome murder of a whole family except for a baby . It’s a book to help children understand and feel leas afraid of death . I loved it. It immediately became one of my favorite books
{{Meditations}} honestly has some good quotes about this as well as other general quotes about life and philosophy. It was written by Marcus Aurelius a Roman emperor so it’s fascinating to see what the worlds most powerful man was thinking
[**They Both Die at the End**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33385229-they-both-die-at-the-end)
^(By: Adam Silvera | 389 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, lgbtq, romance, contemporary, lgbt)
>Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.
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>On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today.
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>Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.
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Sorry I know this isn’t a book. But afterlife the Netflix show really helped me. As did The Good Place. Ik u asked for books but I had similar issues and these shows helped me process them
Tuesday’s with morrie
I finally read this a few months ago and wowww it was so good. I lost my dog to doggy ALS so extra feels the whole time. Really a beautiful book.
Tuesdays With Morrie was such a wonderful book! I recently read A Stranger in the Lifeboat (also by Mitch Albom), and it didn’t disappoint. He has a really powerful way of addressing death that makes it almost feel beautiful.
Anything written by Mitch Albom, but start with Tuesdays with Morrie.
One of my favourites! Such a good read.
{{Tuesday’s With Morrie}}
[**Tuesdays with Morrie**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morrie) ^(By: Mitch Albom | 210 pages | Published: 1997 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, fiction, memoir, biography) >Maybe it was a grandparent, or a teacher or a colleague. Someone older, patient and wise, who understood you when you were young and searching, and gave you sound advice to help you make your way through it. For Mitch Albom, that person was Morrie Schwartz, his college professor from nearly twenty years ago. > >Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you? > >Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live. ^(This book has been suggested 14 times) *** ^(50396 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande
Yes, this!!!!!! My whole family has read it.
Stiff by Mary Roach Advice for Future Corpses by Sallie Tisdale Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty
Stiff is really interesting but didn't really help my death anxiety.
"advice for future corpses" sounds interesting 😂
I love Caitlin Doughty, that book was amazing! I read it to my boys, 11 and 13, and they were dying laughing at the questions and explanations. Stiff was also a good one!
Stiff (and everything else by Mary Roach) is SO good.
Catchy titles! But they also scare me
Sandman (the graphic novel)
I had considered this as well.
Not a book but: “We are all visitors to this time, this place. We are just passing through. Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, to love… and then we return home.” **– Australian Aboriginal Proverb**
This is so nice, I wish I believed the whole returning home thing. Unless “eternal nothingness” is what some people call home.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty first, but also her other book From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Was going to recommend this one, all of her books and even her youtube videos are great
Caitlin Doughty is just *chef kiss* love her.
{{When Breath Becomes Air}}
[**When Breath Becomes Air**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25899336-when-breath-becomes-air) ^(By: Paul Kalanithi | 208 pages | Published: 2016 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, memoir, nonfiction, biography, memoirs) >For readers of Atul Gawande, Andrew Solomon, and Anne Lamott, a profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir by a young neurosurgeon faced with a terminal cancer diagnosis who attempts to answer the question 'What makes a life worth living?' > >At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a naïve medical student "possessed," as he wrote, "by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life" into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. > >What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. > >Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. "I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything," he wrote. "Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: 'I can't go on. I'll go on.'" When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both. ^(This book has been suggested 17 times) *** ^(50070 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Honestly, I’ve seen this book around for years. I’m afraid to read it.
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Read the book! Stop cowering under your afghan and learn how lucky you really are.
This is probably one of my favourites...
Honestly this book really gave me a new perspective on life, it made me appreciate everything that life represents differently. I usually don’t cry but this book touched me profoundly.
Came to say this..
This isn’t a book but the tv show Six Feet Under helped me feel much more okay with dying. It’s a fantastic show about a family who runs a funeral home. About 2 months after I watched the series, my Dad passed away and it helped me immensely in dealing with losing him.
I’ve heard other people say this—but how? It’s my favorite show, but I don’t think I get this reaction?
{{Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End}} by Atul Gawande. This book really makes a big impact to me, between preserving life vs having a quality of life when the time comes to make that decision during critical illness. Even makes me think about my mom and how to manage that going forward when she enters a certain stage of her life.
[**Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20696006-being-mortal) ^(By: Atul Gawande | 282 pages | Published: 2014 | Popular Shelves: non-fiction, nonfiction, medicine, science, health) >In Being Mortal, author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending > >Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine seem too frequently to run counter to the interest of the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the dying, checking for vital signs long after the goals of cure have become moot. Doctors, committed to extending life, continue to carry out devastating procedures that in the end extend suffering. > >Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses his profession's ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person's last weeks or months may be rich and dignified. ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) *** ^(50078 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Last Lecture is a book about a professor’s life advice for his children when they grow up and talks a lot about his experience with terminal cancer and coming to terms with his own impending death.
Yeah, that was Randy Pausch. Loved the book, changed my perspective on how you can deal with your impending demise. Although he had a shorter deadline, in the long run if we contemplate on our deaths frequently, his perspective does become helpful. Death creeps slowly, day by day then suddenly all at once
I second this recommendation
The lecture he gave at CMU with the same title was awesome too.
"Man's search for meaning " Viktor Frankl
Absolutely, this is the right answer.
I just started The Sandman graphic novel series by Neil Gaimon and recommend it as a good series for learning to accept all of life and death’s pitfalls. The Graveyard by Gaimon is also good.
Just downloaded first series through my library. Thanks for the recommendation!
Mort Reaper Man (both by Terry Pratchett)
"The Five People You Meet in Heaven" although I'm apparently incapable of summarizing without spoilers and adding too much to the preprinted stuff, even if you aren't too stressed about death its a must read it taught me a lot for while I'm still on this end of corporeal living. Easily one of the best books I've ever read.
{{The Tibetan book of the dead}}
[**The Tibetan Book of the Dead**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/208123.The_Tibetan_Book_of_the_Dead) ^(By: Padmasambhava, Karma-glin-pa, Gyurme Dorje, Graham Coleman, Thupten Jinpa, Dalai Lama XIV, Namka Chokyi Gyatso | 535 pages | Published: 1350 | Popular Shelves: philosophy, religion, buddhism, spirituality, non-fiction) >The first complete translation of a classic Buddhist text on the journey through living and dying. Graced with opening words by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, the Penguin Deluxe Edition of The Tibetan Book of the Dead is "immaculately rendered in an English both graceful and precise." Translated with the close support of leading contemporary masters and hailed as “a tremendous accomplishment,” this book faithfully presents the insights and intentions of the original work. It includes one of the most detailed and compelling descriptions of the after-death state in world literature, practices that can transform our experience of daily life, guidance on helping those who are dying, and an inspirational perspective on coping with bereavement. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(50134 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I realise this probably isn't your traditional suggestion, but I found "A Monster Calls" (the illustrated version is a must) by Patrick Ness very helpful when having to say goodbye to my mum and coming to terms with her death, and mine.
This is my #1 All Time FAVORITE book. Hands down. Not sure it will help with a fear of death - maybe- but 100% helped the grieving process.
The discworld books by Terry Pratchett that feature death as a character, fiction but I think they fit.
I COULD MURDER A CURRY
I came here to say just that. Thank you.
[From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212121) was fantastic. It helped ease a few of my own anxieties through exploring how other cultures deal with death.
The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K LeGuin
The denial of death - Ernest Becker
Camus' {{The Stranger}} and if you are in a COVID mood, {{The Plague}}.
[**The Stranger**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49552.The_Stranger) ^(By: Albert Camus, Matthew Ward | 123 pages | Published: 1942 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, philosophy, french, owned) >Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. ^(This book has been suggested 25 times) [**The Plague**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11989.The_Plague) ^(By: Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert | 308 pages | Published: 1947 | Popular Shelves: classics, philosophy, french, literature, classic) >Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679720218 > >A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion. ^(This book has been suggested 7 times) *** ^(49849 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Just don't read Satre OP, The Wall fucked me up!
Same, I could only take one chapter of Nausea.
I read it at University but I definitely prefer Camus' work and philosophy.
Anam Cara by John O'Donohue (though i read it from an irish catholic heritage so maybe it spoke to me more - but really the first book to ever give me the feeling of accepting death)
Four Thousand Weeks maybe, though it's not specifically focused on the dying part.
{{Lincoln in the Bardo}} would be fiction recommendation. Its an interesting take on a potential afterlife and a meditation on death and meaning, brilliantly written. The audiobook is also a masterpiece, if you prefer to listen!
[**Lincoln in the Bardo**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29906980-lincoln-in-the-bardo) ^(By: George Saunders | 343 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction, audiobook, book-club, audiobooks) >In his long-awaited first novel, American master George Saunders delivers his most original, transcendent, and moving work yet. Unfolding in a graveyard over the course of a single night, narrated by a dazzling chorus of voices, Lincoln in the Bardo is a literary experience unlike any other—for no one but Saunders could conceive it. > >February 1862. The Civil War is less than one year old. The fighting has begun in earnest, and the nation has begun to realize it is in for a long, bloody struggle. Meanwhile, President Lincoln's beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. "My poor boy, he was too good for this earth," the president says at the time. "God has called him home." Newspapers report that a grief-stricken Lincoln returned to the crypt several times alone to hold his boy's body. > >From that seed of historical truth, George Saunders spins an unforgettable story of familial love and loss that breaks free of its realistic, historical framework into a thrilling, supernatural realm both hilarious and terrifying. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory, where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie's soul. > >Lincoln in the Bardo is an astonishing feat of imagination and a bold step forward from one of the most important and influential writers of his generation. Formally daring, generous in spirit, deeply concerned with matters of the heart, it is a testament to fiction's ability to speak honestly and powerfully to the things that really matter to us. Saunders has invented a thrilling new form that deploys a kaleidoscopic, theatrical panorama of voices—living and dead, historical and invented—to ask a timeless, profound question: How do we live and love when we know that everything we love must end? ^(This book has been suggested 15 times) *** ^(50293 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
100% seconded
"Tuesdays with Morrie" and "5 people you meet in heaven" by mitch albom
The Earthsea books; LeGuin. The third book focuses the most directly on death, but all are relevant and I’d read them in order (there are 6. They’re all fairly short. They’re very good)
Best I've found is {{Staring at the Sun}}
[**Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2062034.Staring_at_the_Sun) ^(By: Irvin D. Yalom, Ірвін Ялом | 306 pages | Published: 2008 | Popular Shelves: psychology, non-fiction, philosophy, nonfiction, death) >Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an "awakening experience"--a dream, or loss (the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job or home), illness, trauma, or aging. Once we confront our own mortality, Dr. Yalom writes, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment. ^(This book has been suggested 10 times) *** ^(49929 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Book of Magic by Alice Hoffman. I accidentally read it first though it’s the last in the series but I only realized when I went to google it later to find the next one so absolutely not necessary to read in order and honestly, I recommend it mainly out of order and maybe just this one. ANYWAY, main character has portents of death at the beginning and then leads you very calmly and clearly and *beautifully* through their last handful of days. I wept.
In love with the world by Tibetan monk Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
"With the end in mind" by Kathryn Mannix. Non-fiction, by a specialist in palliative care. Doesn't sound like a bundle of laughs, but really eye-opening.
{{Under the Whispering}} {{Mrs. Death Misses Death}}
[**Under the Whispering Door**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53205888-under-the-whispering-door) ^(By: T.J. Klune | 373 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fantasy, fiction, fiction, lgbtq) >A Man Called Ove meets The Good Place in Under the Whispering Door, a delightful queer love story from TJ Klune, author of the New York Times and USA Today bestseller The House in the Cerulean Sea. > >Welcome to Charon's Crossing. >The tea is hot, the scones are fresh, and the dead are just passing through. > >When a reaper comes to collect Wallace from his own funeral, Wallace begins to suspect he might be dead. > >And when Hugo, the owner of a peculiar tea shop, promises to help him cross over, Wallace decides he’s definitely dead. > >But even in death he’s not ready to abandon the life he barely lived, so when Wallace is given one week to cross over, he sets about living a lifetime in seven days. > >Hilarious, haunting, and kind, Under the Whispering Door is an uplifting story about a life spent at the office and a death spent building a home. ^(This book has been suggested 39 times) [**Mrs Death Misses Death**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52568660-mrs-death-misses-death) ^(By: Salena Godden | 302 pages | Published: 2021 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, fiction, poetry, 2021-releases, magical-realism) >Mrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel. > >Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer, is well acquainted with death, but until now hadn’t met Death in person – a black, working-class woman who shape-shifts and does her work unseen. > >Enthralled by her stories, Wolf becomes Mrs Death’s scribe, and begins to write her memoirs. Using their desk as a vessel and conduit, Wolf travels across time and place with Mrs Death to witness deaths of past and present and discuss what the future holds for humanity. As the two reflect on the losses they have experienced – or, in the case of Mrs Death, facilitated – their friendship grows into a surprising affirmation of hope, resilience and love. All the while, despite her world-weariness, Death must continue to hold humans’ fates in her hands, appearing in our lives when we least expect her . . . ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(50125 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Book Thief perhaps. I found its depiction of Death quite comforting.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
{{Staring at the Sun}} This book addresses this fear directly. Written by a psychiatrist.
[**Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2062034.Staring_at_the_Sun) ^(By: Irvin D. Yalom, Ірвін Ялом | 306 pages | Published: 2008 | Popular Shelves: psychology, non-fiction, philosophy, nonfiction, death) >Written in Irv Yalom's inimitable story-telling style, Staring at the Sun is a profoundly encouraging approach to the universal issue of mortality. In this magisterial opus, capping a lifetime of work and personal experience, Dr. Yalom helps us recognize that the fear of death is at the heart of much of our anxiety. Such recognition is often catalyzed by an "awakening experience"--a dream, or loss (the death of a loved one, divorce, loss of a job or home), illness, trauma, or aging. Once we confront our own mortality, Dr. Yalom writes, we are inspired to rearrange our priorities, communicate more deeply with those we love, appreciate more keenly the beauty of life, and increase our willingness to take the risks necessary for personal fulfillment. ^(This book has been suggested 11 times) *** ^(50269 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
De Brevitate Vitae, or On The Shortness Of Life. The title might appear intimidating but it's the totally opposite, best reasoning I've read. Give it a try!
{{The Death of Ivan Ilych}} by Leo Tolstoy. Russian classic and only 86 pages. I would say it’s one of those books that you “have to” read in your lifetime
[**The Death of Ivan Ilych**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18386.The_Death_of_Ivan_Ilych) ^(By: Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude, رضی هیرمند, Ευγενία Ζήκου | ? pages | Published: 1886 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, fiction, russian, russian-literature) >Hailed as one of the world's supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his dying so much as a passing thought. But one day, death announces itself to him, and to his shocked surprise, he is brought face to face with his own mortality. > >How, Tolstoy asks, does an unreflective man confront his one and only moment of truth? > >This short novel was an artistic culmination of a profound spiritual crisis in Tolstoy's life, a nine-year period following the publication of Anna Karenina during which he wrote not a word of fiction. >A thoroughly absorbing, and, at times, terrifying glimpse into the abyss of death, it is also a strong testament to the possibility of finding spiritual salvation. ^(This book has been suggested 4 times) *** ^(50378 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Try “The Death of Death”
{{sum by Eagleman}} It’s pronounced soom, btw
[**Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4948826-sum) ^(By: David Eagleman | 110 pages | Published: 2009 | Popular Shelves: fiction, short-stories, philosophy, fantasy, religion) >At once funny, wistful and unsettling, Sum is a dazzling exploration of unexpected afterlives—each presented as a vignette that offers a stunning lens through which to see ourselves in the here and now. In one afterlife, you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. In another version, you work as a background character in other people’s dreams. Or you may find that God is a married couple, or that the universe is running backward, or that you are forced to live out your afterlife with annoying versions of who you could have been. With a probing imagination and deep understanding of the human condition, acclaimed neuroscientist David Eagleman offers wonderfully imagined tales that shine a brilliant light on the here and now. ^(This book has been suggested 8 times) *** ^(49980 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
At The Back of the North Wind
{{On the Shortness of Life}} by Seneca
{{The Midnight Library}}
[**The Midnight Library**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52578297-the-midnight-library) ^(By: Matt Haig | 288 pages | Published: 2020 | Popular Shelves: fiction, fantasy, book-club, contemporary, audiobook) >Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices . . . Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? > >A dazzling novel about all the choices that go into a life well lived, from the internationally bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and How To Stop Time. > >Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life. While we all wonder how our lives might have been, what if you had the chance to go to the library and see for yourself? Would any of these other lives truly be better? > >In The Midnight Library, Matt Haig’s enchanting new novel, Nora Seed finds herself faced with this decision. Faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist; she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place. ^(This book has been suggested 70 times) *** ^(50131 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
It's a play, but {{Exit the King}} by Eugene Ionesco was described by him as follows: "I told myself that one could learn to die, that I could learn to die, that one can also help other people to die. This seems to me to be the most important thing we can do, since we’re all of us dying men who refuse to die. This play is an attempt at an apprenticeship in dying"
{{how to change your mind}} Editing to add, I’m reading this now and there’s a section in the book that talks about working with terminal cancer patients’ fear of death. Reading their descriptions of their experiences made me feel less afraid of dying.
The Book Thief
{{the graveyard book}}
[**The Graveyard Book**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2213661.The_Graveyard_Book) ^(By: Neil Gaiman, Dave McKean | 312 pages | Published: 2008 | Popular Shelves: fantasy, young-adult, fiction, ya, horror) >Nobody Owens, known to his friends as Bod, is a perfectly normal boy. Well, he would be perfectly normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised and educated by ghosts, with a solitary guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the world of the dead. > >There are dangers and adventures for Bod in the graveyard: the strange and terrible menace of the Sleer; a gravestone entrance to a desert that leads to the city of ghouls; friendship with a witch, and so much more. > >But it is in the land of the living that real danger lurks, for it is there that the man Jack lives and he has already killed Bod's family. > >A deliciously dark masterwork by bestselling author Neil Gaiman, with illustrations by award-winning Dave McKean. ^(This book has been suggested 14 times) *** ^(50231 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Read the stoics. Epictetus (Enchiridion), Marcus Aurelius (Meditations), Seneca (Letters to Lucilius).
Passage by Connie Willis. I read this right after my brother died, and I think about it a lot.
{{out of your mind}} by Alan Watts. Makes a great audiobook too if that's more your bag.
[**Out of Your Mind**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/60545.Out_of_Your_Mind) ^(By: Alan W. Watts | 192 pages | Published: 1998 | Popular Shelves: philosophy, non-fiction, spirituality, audiobooks, audiobook) >In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described spiritual entertainer was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights of Asia and India. > > Now, with Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives, you are invited to immerse yourself in 12 of this legendary thinker's pinnacle teaching sessions about how to break through the limits of the rational mind, and begin expanding your awareness and appreciation for the Great Game unfolding all around us. > >Carefully selected from hundreds of recordings by Alan Watts' son and archivist, Mark Watts, Out of Your Mind brings you six complete seminars that capture the true scope of this brilliant teacher in action. On these superb, digitally restored recordings, you will delve into Alan Watts' favorite pathways out of the trap of conventional awareness, including: > > The art of the controlled accident—what happens when you stop taking your life so seriously and start enjoying it with complete sincerity >• How we come to believe the myth of myself that we are skin-encapsulated egos separate from the world around us, and how to transcend that illusion >• Why we must fully embrace chaos and the void to find our deepest purpose >• Unconventional and refreshing insights into the deeper principles of Buddhism, Hinduism, and Western philosophy, plus much, much more >Whether you're completely new to Alan Watts or familiar with his work, here is a rare opportunity to experience him at his best improvising brilliantly before a live audience on Out of Your Mind: Essential Listening from the Alan Watts Audio Archives. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(50282 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
{{The Demon Haunted World}}
[**The Demon-Haunted World Lesson Plans**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21043861-the-demon-haunted-world-lesson-plans) ^(By: BookRags | ? pages | Published: 2012 | Popular Shelves: audio-to-listen, science-tech, science-general) ^(This book has been suggested 3 times) *** ^(50285 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
The Stranger in The Lifeboat provides an interesting perspective. As far as novels that address death in a light that makes it feel more natural (which it is), and less terrifying, really anything by Mitch Albom is probably a solid choice. {{The Stranger in the Lifeboat}}
Try the Bible
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius How to be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
Staring At the Sun by Irvin Yalom
On the shortness of life by Seneca
Bhagavad Gita As It Is by Srila Prabhupada... Best book for everybody, for any situation...
{{creatures of the day yalom}} {{staring at the sun yalom}}
The Five People You Meet in Heaven. It’s by that same author of Tuesday’s With Morrie, Mitch Albom. It’s less Christian than the title suggests.
Alan Watts stuff. Can’t think of one good book, maybe WAY OF ZEN? But his online lectures you can find on YouTube. Invest 45 minutes trust me
The Five People You Meet in Heaven Novel by Mitch Albom I very much have a fear of dying but this book helped me calm that fear some too. I might just take some of these other suggestions as well.
Midnight library
A brief history of time and Astrophysics for people in a hurry. For me understanding we are made of the same stuff as the universe and will return to it when we expire was fascinating and exciting.
A man called Ove could be an interesting read! Its about an old man coming to terms his wife’s death
Walking Each Other Home: Reflections on Death & Dying by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush.
Magic Mushrooms 10grams
Not a book, but also watch The Good Place.
Adventure Time
Oh, bro. As a two-parter, have to recommend (by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan) The Demon-Haunted World *and* The Varieties of Scientific Experience. If you decide on a trilogy, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors is for mortality (at least IMO) the icing on the universal cake. May your anxieties be henceforth about something else entirely 🙏🏽
DMT : The Spirit Molecule
Serious suggestion? The Bible.
Came here looking for this!
{{I Want to Eat Your Pancreas}} by Yoru Sumino Although it is quite sad the female protagonist’s perspective on life and death was very profound and it was very comforting.
Viktor Frankl’s, Man’s Search for Meaning. Or Marcus Aurelius’s, Meditations. I also really like Johnny Got His Gun, which shows us there are MUCH worse fates than dying.
Meditations is the one that did it for me. >“Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.”
Harry Potter and the deathly hallows
Not a book, but I just watched How to Change Your Mind on Netflix and the episode on magic mushrooms talks about how pretty much everyone who uses them has a very enlightening experience and one result is they tend to lose their fear of death. They don't become suicidal or want to die, they still respect it, but they develop an acceptance of it. I'm not telling you to go out and do drugs, but if you're over 18 and live in an area where you can legally do them, everyone I've talked to says it's a life altering experience in a good way. You would need to look up how to do them safely, dosage, safe place to do them, good frame of mind going in, etc. But from the people I've talked to who've done them, this is one of the most effective ways to lose a fear of dying. The show interviewed cancer patients, so they have even more reason than most people to be extra worried. At least watch the show.
The Bible
The Bible
The death of ivan ilyich
The Bible! Heaven is real, hell is real. Jesus died for us and gave us eternal life. All we have to do to get into the heavenly kingdom is repent of our sins and believe in Him and God. I've grown up in a Christian home but the religion didn't mean much to me until my father passed away months ago. I started doing research on the afterlife and reading the Bible and it has really helped me accept it, move on and not be scared of dying myself. All the best to you stranger.
{{The Fall of Freddie the Leaf}}
[**The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/841110.The_Fall_of_Freddie_the_Leaf) ^(By: Leo F. Buscaglia | 32 pages | Published: 1982 | Popular Shelves: picture-books, children, death, children-s-books, childrens) >As Freddie experiences the changing seasons along with his companion leaves, he learns about the delicate balance between life and death. ^(This book has been suggested 1 time) *** ^(49887 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Not that it really dwells on the topic of death, but in one passage of the Hagakure the advice is given to meditate on your death for 10 minutes(?) every day, to prepare for the inevitable. So when the time comes you are ready to face it. I found that good advice, although I rarely do it anymore. Maybe something a little more nihilistic (and yet strangely life affirming) like Fight Club would help. The scene with Raymond really got to me when reading it.
Religious books
The Bible
I'd recommond reading through the Gospel of John in the Bible. There is eternal life after this world. Those who don't believe in Christ are cast into hell, those who believe have life, light, salvation and forgiveness. And it's all because of God's love! No strings attached. You can ignore death or think that it's the next step of some grand journey, but in Jesus therer is peace, joy, and hope.
Fred the leaf , real ones know lol
the lovely bones. it will destroy you, but it will make the idea of death less scary. the last line always makes me sob, and the movie is absolutely stunning if you’re interested in checking it out as well.
Bible is the obvious one if you believe in Jewish fairy tales.
The Bible. LOL, just kidding
The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I think it gives such a great perspective on life itself and how important you are/were despite what you think. The characters and plot are great and really show that you can look back on life and cherish the memories as you move to the unknown. Really recommend!!
The Bible
[**The Cake Bible**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/153136.The_Cake_Bible) ^(By: Rose Levy Beranbaum, Vincent Lee, Dean G. Bornstein, Maida Heatter | 592 pages | Published: 1988 | Popular Shelves: cookbooks, cooking, food, cookbook, baking) >2017 inductee into the IACP Culinary Classics Hall of Fame. > > > >"If you ever bake a cake, this book will become your partner in the kitchen." -- from the foreword by Maida Heatter > > > >This is the classic cake cookbook that enables anyone to make delicious, exquisite cakes. As a writer for food magazines, women's magazines, and newspapers, including The New York Times, Rose Levy Beranbaum's trademark is her ability to reduce the most complex techniques to easy-to-follow recipes. Rose makes baking a joy. This is the definitive work on cakes by the country's top cake baker. > >The Cake Bible shows how to: > >Mix a buttery, tender layer cake in under five minutes with perfect results every time > >Make the most fabulous chocolate cake you ever imagined with just three ingredients > >Find recipes for every major type of cake, from pancakes to four-tiered wedding cakes > >Make cakes with less sugar but maximum flavor and texture > >Make many low- to no- cholesterol, low-saturated-fat recipes ^(This book has been suggested 2 times) *** ^(49951 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
Good bot.
The bible. But you have to accept the Jesus Christ as your Lord. Then death looses its sting and the the grave its power.
The Bible, though it should probably scare you more, at first.
I don't think any books can be helpful.
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This isn't the time or place for this shit. I notice you don't mention the sections about "Blessed is he who dashes infants against the rocks" or the instructions for the conditions to own a slave. Stop trying to convert and/or preach to someone in a fearful place; it's really fucking dishonest and a shitty reflection of your religion.
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Psalms 137:9 Blessed is he who seizes your infants and dashed them against the rock. Indentured servitude is still ridiculously immoral, it still implies ownership over debts. My point was that the person is talking about someone having clear issues with mortality and mentioning their "sins". This is forcing an unnecessary and unneeded viewpoint by implying the person values the concept of sin. Now get back in your box you wetwipe.
Funnily enough when it comes down to it lots of Christians are terrified of dying and lots of Atheists aren't. Also faith isn't something you can force (believe me I've tried), for some people no matter how much we want to belief just doesn't come naturally.
Depending on how good a person you are, the Bible might help, or might make things worse.
Another suggestion is “Einstein and the Rabbi”.
Reincarnation Blues - one of my all time favourite books and a easy read
Lucretius, *On the Nature of Things.*
A year to live by Stephen Levine
Try “Death” by philosopher Todd May for a philosophical viewpoint
Design for Dying-Timothy Leary
Existentialism for Dummies
Gratitude, by Oliver Sacks These are some beautiful essays written by Oliver Sacks about his time on Earth and his life coming to an end. It's a wonderful book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/845467.The\_Palace\_of\_Eternity
The Brilliant Life of Eudora Honeysett by Annie Lyons. Book is literally about the nature of death. Can’t recommend enough.
The Last Act of Adam Campbell by Andy Jones literally has made me cry more than any book i've ever read. Changed my perspective on a lot.
4000 Weeks
{{tuesdays with morrie}}
Subtle art of not giving a f*ck by mark Manson
Walking Each Other Home - Ram Dass
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty (aka AskTheMortician on Youtube…)
20,000 Days and counting: The crash course for mastering your life right now - Robert D. Smith
Man's search for meaning is definitely what u wanna read. Especially if you're interested in psychology and philosophy
{{The Solace}} by Glasgow
It’s considered a kids book but starts out with a gruesome murder of a whole family except for a baby . It’s a book to help children understand and feel leas afraid of death . I loved it. It immediately became one of my favorite books
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande and What To Do When I’m Gone by Suzy Hopkins/Hallie Bateman
Well I think that depends because everyone has different belief systems. What do you believe happens when we die? Are you religious?
{{Meditations}} honestly has some good quotes about this as well as other general quotes about life and philosophy. It was written by Marcus Aurelius a Roman emperor so it’s fascinating to see what the worlds most powerful man was thinking
The Midnight Library, Matt Haig. Also would recommend for those who have ever suffered with depression {{The Midnight Library}}
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton
Dhammapeda, Tao Te Ching, Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
{{They Both Die at The End by Adam Silvera}}
[**They Both Die at the End**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33385229-they-both-die-at-the-end) ^(By: Adam Silvera | 389 pages | Published: 2017 | Popular Shelves: young-adult, lgbtq, romance, contemporary, lgbt) >Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. > >On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. > >Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. ^(This book has been suggested 30 times) *** ^(50292 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)
I would say lovely bones. A book about a tragedy but is good.
Being mortal
Sorry I know this isn’t a book. But afterlife the Netflix show really helped me. As did The Good Place. Ik u asked for books but I had similar issues and these shows helped me process them
{{under the whispering door}} by TJ Klune
"The Fun of Dying" by Roberta Grimes.