Suggested Reading
Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death, by Katy Butler
The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green
How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter, by Sherwin Nuland, M.D.
What Kind of Life: The Limits of Medical Progress, by Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
Fictional Death & The Modernist Enterprise, by Alan Warren Friedman, Ph.D.
Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve, by Sandra M. Gilbert
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
Being Mortal, by Atul Gawande, M.D.
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying, by Maggie Callanan
False Hopes: Why America’s Quest for Perfect Health is a Recipe for Failure, by Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
The Year of Magical Thinking, by Joan Didion
Blue Nights, by Joan Didion
Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson
The Long Life, by Helen Small
All the Living: A Novel, by C.E. Morgan
The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death, by Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
A Grief Observed, by C.S. Lewis
The Sense of an Ending, by Julian Barnes
Nothing to Be Frightened Of, by Julian Barnes
Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying, by Stephen and Ondrea Levine
Children and Death, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy, and Their Own Families, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The End of Your Life Book Club, by Will Schwalbe
What Dying People Want: Practical Wisdom for the End of Life, by David Kuhl
The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves, by Stephen Grosz
A Very Easy Death, by Simone De Beauvoir
Life After Death and Other Stories, by Susan Compo
Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death and Dying Teach us About the Mysteries of Life and Living, by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life, by Ira Byock, M.D.
Taming the Beloved Beast: How Medical Technology Costs are Destroying Our Health Care System, by Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
Peaceful Journey: A Hospice Chaplain’s Guide to End of Life, by Matthew P. Binkewicz
Death, by Geoffrey Scarre
In Praise of Mortality, by Rainer Maria Rilke
A World Growing Old: The Coming Health Care Challenges, Edited by Daniel Callahan, Ruud H. J. ter Meulen and Eva Topinkova
Setting Limits: Medical Goals in an Aging Society, by Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
Death and the Quest for Meaning, Edited by Stephen Strack
The Rest of Life: Three Novellas, by Mary Gordon
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself, by Michael A. Singer
In Search of the Good: A Life in Bioethics, by Daniel Callahan, Ph.D.
Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions, by Sandra L. Bertman
Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital, by Eric Manheimer, M.D.