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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End (Hardcover)
by (shelved 165 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.49 — 227,593 ratings — published 2014
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 156 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,894,550 ratings — published 2012
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 150 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.41 — 856,642 ratings — published 2016
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,280,821 ratings — published 1997
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.21 — 113,418 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.06 — 249,609 ratings — published 2003
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.29 — 48,654 ratings — published 2017
The End of Your Life Book Club (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.81 — 56,508 ratings — published 2012
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.93 — 324,194 ratings — published 2005
The Last Lecture (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 76 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.26 — 369,347 ratings — published 2008
Stranger to the Beautiful: A Journey of Faith, Hope, and Transformation (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.36 — 5,505 ratings — published
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.12 — 49,749 ratings — published 2019
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,293,237 ratings — published 2004
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.16 — 27,925 ratings — published 1969
How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.07 — 9,516 ratings — published 1994
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.02 — 838,270 ratings — published 2003
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 49 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.91 — 981,183 ratings — published 2009
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 43 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,986,071 ratings — published 2005
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,574 ratings — published 2007
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,847 ratings — published 2011
Mortality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.12 — 30,207 ratings — published 2012
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.39 — 5,746 ratings — published 1992
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,882 ratings — published 2017
Tinkers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.42 — 40,368 ratings — published 2009
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.22 — 650,577 ratings — published 2021
Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.16 — 32,833 ratings — published 2014
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.14 — 263,651 ratings — published 1886
A Grief Observed (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.22 — 102,640 ratings — published 1961
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.24 — 568,047 ratings — published 2008
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.57 — 8,533 ratings — published 2017
Under the Whispering Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.10 — 343,471 ratings — published 2021
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.74 — 186,239 ratings — published 2017
Postcolonial Love Poem (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.31 — 9,174 ratings — published 2020
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.42 — 36,403 ratings — published 2017
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.46 — 4,301 ratings — published 2017
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,850,638 ratings — published 2012
Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,361 ratings — published 1997
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,491,096 ratings — published 2002
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.25 — 13,607 ratings — published 2022
Mockingbird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.20 — 36,132 ratings — published 2010
Before I Die (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,607 ratings — published 2007
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,692,799 ratings — published 2020
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
by (shelved 25 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,433 ratings — published 2018
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,775 ratings — published 2019
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.27 — 29,277 ratings — published 2014
Tell the Wolves I'm Home (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.02 — 151,761 ratings — published 2012
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.75 — 910,898 ratings — published 2017
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.07 — 890,922 ratings — published 2012
The American Way of Death Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,697 ratings — published 1963
The Collected Regrets of Clover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as death-and-dying)
avg rating 4.16 — 136,695 ratings — published 2023
“Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying”
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“Dearest, I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices, and I can't concentrate. So I am doing what seems the best thing to do. You have given me the greatest possible happiness. You have been in every way all that anyone could be. I don't think two people could have been happier 'til this terrible disease came. I can't fight any longer. I know that I am spoiling your life, that without me you could work. And you will I know. You see I can't even write this properly. I can't read. What I want to say is I owe all the happiness of my life to you. You have been entirely patient with me and incredibly good. I want to say that – everybody knows it. If anybody could have saved me it would have been you. Everything has gone from me but the certainty of your goodness. I can't go on spoiling your life any longer. I don't think two people could have been happier than we have been. V.”
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