Death Kills Us, But the Idea of Death Saves Us
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.30 avg rating β 45,184 ratings 2. 
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
by:
Caitlin Doughty
4.22 avg rating β 104,618 ratings 3. 
The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die
by:
John B. Izzo
4.10 avg rating β 1,522 ratings 
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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
by:
Kathryn Mannix
4.57 avg rating β 7,566 ratings 9. 
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families 4.16 avg rating β 27,320 ratings
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
by:
Mitch Albom
4.20 avg rating β 1,154,020 ratings 11. 
Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts
by:
Bhikkhu AnΔlayo
4.51 avg rating β 53 ratings 
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Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
by:
Irvin D. Yalom
4.23 avg rating β 15,185 ratings 13. 
Victorian Death Art: Postmortem Death Photography and Hair Art (Interest & Intrigue Book 1)
by:
Emily Ann Bronte
3.34 avg rating β 35 ratings 
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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Co
by:
Maggie Callanan
4.39 avg rating β 5,334 ratings 
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The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over
by:
Starhawk
4.23 avg rating β 962 ratings 
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Through the Dark Forest: Transforming Your Life in the Face of Death
by:
Carolyn Conger
3.91 avg rating β 11 ratings 25. 
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
by:
Katy Butler
4.12 avg rating β 3,174 ratings 
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Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
by:
Richard Holloway
4.12 avg rating β 505 ratings 28. 
Executing Grace: How the Death Penalty Killed Jesus and Why It's Killing Us
by:
Shane Claiborne
4.44 avg rating β 632 ratings 29. 
Is Nothing Something?: Kids' Questions and Zen Answers About Life, Death, Family, Friendship, and Everything in Between
by:
Thich Nhat Hanh
4.26 avg rating β 287 ratings 30. 
Elvis After Life: Unusual Psychic Experiences Surrounding the Death of a Superstar 3.53 avg rating β 30 ratings
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American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
by:
Kate Sweeney
3.78 avg rating β 197 ratings 32. 
The Book of Extraordinary Deaths: True Accounts of Ill-Fated Lives
by:
Cecilia Ruiz
3.88 avg rating β 523 ratings 
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The Rose and the Briar: Death, Love, and Liberty in the American Ballad
by:
Sean Wilentz
3.93 avg rating β 193 ratings 36. 
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators 4.23 avg rating β 2,065 ratings
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The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by:
Helen Prejean
4.21 avg rating β 752 ratings 
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Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World: How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead 3.45 avg rating β 11 ratings
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The Mansion of Happiness: A History of Life and Death
by:
Jill Lepore
3.54 avg rating β 999 ratings 41. 
A Wild Justice: The Death and Resurrection of Capital Punishment in America
by:
Evan Mandery
4.11 avg rating β 167 ratings 42. 
Built on Bones: 15,000 Years of Urban Life and Death
by:
Brenna Hassett
3.68 avg rating β 263 ratings 43. 
Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection (Union Square & Co. Chronologies) 3.82 avg rating β 882 ratings
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
by:
Haider Warraich
3.93 avg rating β 684 ratings