End-of-Life Books

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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End 4.49 avg rating — 210,893 ratings
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When Breath Becomes Air
When Breath Becomes Air 4.41 avg rating — 767,252 ratings
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Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life
Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life 4.33 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory 4.22 avg rating — 104,623 ratings
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The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America
The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America 3.81 avg rating — 631 ratings
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A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death 4.31 avg rating — 1,280 ratings
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The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life 4.28 avg rating — 1,556 ratings
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Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death 4.40 avg rating — 344 ratings
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Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully
Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully 4.44 avg rating — 2,039 ratings
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Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
Knocking on Heaven's Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death 4.12 avg rating — 3,174 ratings
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So Near the Horizon (The Danny Trilogy, #1)
So Near the Horizon (The Danny Trilogy, #1) 4.39 avg rating — 4,808 ratings
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After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond
After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond 4.19 avg rating — 4,789 ratings
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson 4.20 avg rating — 1,154,057 ratings
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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully 4.46 avg rating — 3,827 ratings
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 1,762,245 ratings
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Gabriel: A Poem
Gabriel: A Poem 4.44 avg rating — 810 ratings
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Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives 4.31 avg rating — 24,818 ratings
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Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's
Losing My Mind: An Intimate Look at Life with Alzheimer's 3.79 avg rating — 474 ratings
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Embraced By The Light
Embraced By The Light 3.97 avg rating — 9,844 ratings
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Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying
Advice for Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them): A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying 4.16 avg rating — 2,208 ratings
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The Promised Landing: A Gateway to Peaceful Dying
The Promised Landing: A Gateway to Peaceful Dying it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death
Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border of Life and Death 3.98 avg rating — 87 ratings
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From Sun to Sun: A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying
From Sun to Sun: A Hospice Nurse Reflects on the Art of Dying 4.25 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death
The Afterlife of Billy Fingers: How My Bad-Boy Brother Proved to Me There's Life After Death 4.03 avg rating — 5,880 ratings
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Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life
Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life 3.93 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon's Journey into the Afterlife 3.73 avg rating — 63,601 ratings
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Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death
Waiting for the Last Bus: Reflections on Life and Death 4.12 avg rating — 505 ratings
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Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief 4.43 avg rating — 2,785 ratings
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The American Way of Death Revisited
The American Way of Death Revisited 3.97 avg rating — 2,582 ratings
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Lost Companions: Reflections on the Death of Pets
Lost Companions: Reflections on the Death of Pets 3.18 avg rating — 234 ratings
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Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life 4.38 avg rating — 933 ratings
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Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End
Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life's End 4.12 avg rating — 815 ratings
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying 4.30 avg rating — 18,871 ratings
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Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death 4.36 avg rating — 1,043 ratings
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What Does It Feel Like to Die?: Inspiring New Insights into the Experience of Dying
What Does It Feel Like to Die?: Inspiring New Insights into the Experience of Dying 4.20 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Present through the End: A Caring Companion's Guide for Accompanying the Dying
Present through the End: A Caring Companion's Guide for Accompanying the Dying 4.24 avg rating — 42 ratings
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At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life
At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life 4.23 avg rating — 195 ratings
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death 4.30 avg rating — 45,184 ratings
39.
Let's Talk About Death
Let's Talk About Death really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 480 ratings
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The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom
The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom 3.96 avg rating — 954 ratings
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When Death Comes Knocking for Your Patients: A Guide for Nurses and Palliative Caregivers
When Death Comes Knocking for Your Patients: A Guide for Nurses and Palliative Caregivers 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial
The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial 4.26 avg rating — 97 ratings
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A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent 4.48 avg rating — 42 ratings
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Half Life
Half Life 4.31 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Shaking Hands with Death
Shaking Hands with Death 4.47 avg rating — 1,464 ratings
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Hersenschimmen
Hersenschimmen 3.90 avg rating — 15,579 ratings
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Before We Say Goodbye
Before We Say Goodbye 3.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments
The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments 4.50 avg rating — 45,779 ratings
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How to Be Present at the End of Your Loved One's Journey
How to Be Present at the End of Your Loved One's Journey it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Final Act of Living
The Final Act of Living 4.50 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
Six Feet Under or Up in Smoke: The Aussie Way of Death
by: Jim Eames
3.16 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites
Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb? A Tour of Presidential Gravesites 3.93 avg rating — 215 ratings
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In Every Moment We Are Still Alive
In Every Moment We Are Still Alive 3.46 avg rating — 3,492 ratings
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Can You Hear Me?: Hope After Loss
Can You Hear Me?: Hope After Loss
by: Y.Y. Chan
4.76 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Awakened by Death: Life-Giving Lessons from the Mystics
Awakened by Death: Life-Giving Lessons from the Mystics 4.45 avg rating — 40 ratings
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death 3.73 avg rating — 3,451 ratings
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Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End
Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End 4.21 avg rating — 3,978 ratings
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Midwife For Souls
Midwife For Souls 4.36 avg rating — 235 ratings
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Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die
Going Home: Finding Peace When Pets Die
by: Jon Katz
3.97 avg rating — 1,132 ratings
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The Staircase Letters: An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life
The Staircase Letters: An Extraordinary Friendship at the End of Life 3.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
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All the Bright Places
All the Bright Places 4.11 avg rating — 615,466 ratings
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Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life
Final Journeys: A Practical Guide for Bringing Care and Comfort at the End of Life 4.43 avg rating — 401 ratings
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Lay Me in God's Good Earth: A Christian Approach to Death and Burial
Lay Me in God's Good Earth: A Christian Approach to Death and Burial 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings
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What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying
What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying 4.18 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Rowing Without Oars: A Memoir of Living and Dying 4.02 avg rating — 758 ratings
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Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner
Working Stiff: Two years, 262 bodies and the making of a medical examiner 4.26 avg rating — 26,519 ratings
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The Last Things We Talk About: Your Guide to End of Life Transitions
The Last Things We Talk About: Your Guide to End of Life Transitions 4.33 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Wit
Wit 4.14 avg rating — 17,229 ratings
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The Last Act of Love
The Last Act of Love 4.13 avg rating — 4,948 ratings
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Finding Peace at the End of Life: A Death Doula's Guide for Families and Caregivers
Finding Peace at the End of Life: A Death Doula's Guide for Families and Caregivers 4.56 avg rating — 100 ratings
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Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives 4.35 avg rating — 9,254 ratings
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The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist
The Cause of Death: True Stories of Death and Murder From a New Zealand Pathologist 4.22 avg rating — 1,083 ratings
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An Act of Love: One Woman's Remarkable Life Story and Her Fight for the Right to Die with Dignity
An Act of Love: One Woman's Remarkable Life Story and Her Fight for the Right to Die with Dignity 4.05 avg rating — 94 ratings
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Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives
Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives 4.17 avg rating — 78,234 ratings
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death 3.98 avg rating — 76,136 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
The Dead Do Talk 3.75 avg rating — 44 ratings
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When Is It Right to Die?: A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying
When Is It Right to Die?: A Comforting and Surprising Look at Death and Dying 4.11 avg rating — 174 ratings
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When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End
When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End 4.10 avg rating — 546 ratings
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The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell YOU
The Top Ten Things Dead People Want to Tell YOU 3.96 avg rating — 1,572 ratings
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Dementia: Living in the Memories of God
Dementia: Living in the Memories of God 4.48 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Talking About Death Won't Kill You: The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations
Talking About Death Won't Kill You: The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations 4.07 avg rating — 131 ratings
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The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living
The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living
by: Ira Byock
4.17 avg rating — 1,101 ratings
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Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss
Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss 4.46 avg rating — 3,942 ratings
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Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care
Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care 4.32 avg rating — 191 ratings
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The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care 4.25 avg rating — 804 ratings
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The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
by: Ira Byock
4.31 avg rating — 413 ratings
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Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America
Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in America 4.07 avg rating — 58 ratings
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When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults
When Parents Die: A Guide for Adults 3.69 avg rating — 137 ratings
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The Tao of Death: The Secret to a Rich & Meaningful Life
The Tao of Death: The Secret to a Rich & Meaningful Life it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life 4.23 avg rating — 104 ratings
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How We Live Is How We Die
How We Live Is How We Die 4.28 avg rating — 2,059 ratings
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It's OK to Die
It's OK to Die 4.37 avg rating — 71 ratings
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Why People Die by Suicide
Why People Die by Suicide 4.03 avg rating — 793 ratings
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Marrow: A Love Story
Marrow: A Love Story 4.12 avg rating — 1,493 ratings
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Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth
Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth 3.95 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade 3.87 avg rating — 3,140 ratings
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Wishes to Die For: A Caregiver’s Guide to Advance Care Directives
Wishes to Die For: A Caregiver’s Guide to Advance Care Directives 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Death's Summer Coat
Death's Summer Coat 3.63 avg rating — 153 ratings
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Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death 4.12 avg rating — 104 ratings
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Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages
Medieval Bodies: Life and Death in the Middle Ages 3.93 avg rating — 2,489 ratings
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