Dying


The Fault in Our Stars
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
When Breath Becomes Air
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
My Sister's Keeper
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Five People You Meet in Heaven
The Book Thief
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Everything Is Going to Kill Everybody: The Terrifyingly Real Ways the World Wants You Dead
Tinkers
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant?
Benediction (Plainsong, #3)
Before I Die
The Parrot's Tale by Miller CaldwellGoodbye, Rebel Blue by Shelley CoriellBetter by Carey HeywoodThe F-It List by Julie HalpernSince You've Been Gone by Morgan Matson
The Bucket List
45 books — 49 voters
Year of Wonders by Geraldine BrooksDoomsday Book by Connie WillisWorld Without End by Ken FollettForever Amber by Kathleen WinsorThe Plague by Albert Camus
Bubonic Plague
97 books — 59 voters

Charlie and Chocolate's Furry Forgiveness by J. Suthern HicksCharlie and Chocolate's Purrfect Prayer by J. Suthern HicksSomething Very Sad Happened by Bonnie ZuckerThe End of Something Wonderful by Stephanie V.W. LucianovicDog Heaven by Cynthia Rylant
Grief and Death for Young Kids
39 books — 14 voters

Gabriel García Márquez
What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. ...more
Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

Osamu Dazai
I am afraid because I can so clearly foresee my own life rotting away of itself, like a leaf that rots without falling, while I pursue my round of existence from day to day.
Osamu Dazai, The Setting Sun

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Deathlings Books and discussions about the culture of death and dying.
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