Death Positivity: Non Fiction

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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematorium 4.22 avg rating β€” 104,648 ratings
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers 4.06 avg rating β€” 234,486 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 β€” 45,192 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 β€” 1,556 ratings
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With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial 4.57 avg rating β€” 7,569 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 β€” 684 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 β€” 26,527 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 β€” 1,043 ratings
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death 4.13 avg rating β€” 46,337 ratings
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Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer 3.26 avg rating β€” 7,485 ratings
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Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI
Never Suck A Dead Man's Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI 3.75 avg rating β€” 1,791 ratings
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Let's Talk About Death
Let's Talk About Death really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 480 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 β€” 1,280 ratings
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The Final Gift of the Beloved: Her Disappearance-13 Days
The Final Gift of the Beloved: Her Disappearance-13 Days 4.11 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Life, Death, and Immortality: The Journey of the Soul
Life, Death, and Immortality: The Journey of the Soul 3.81 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Grief Healed: A Physician's Guide to Dealing with Grief and Thriving
Grief Healed: A Physician's Guide to Dealing with Grief and Thriving 4.53 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Mom, Dad...Can We Talk?: Helping Our Aging Parents with the Insight and Wisdom of Others
Mom, Dad...Can We Talk?: Helping Our Aging Parents with the Insight and Wisdom of Others 4.86 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die
My Father's Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love, and Die 3.93 avg rating β€” 558 ratings
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A Brief History of Death
A Brief History of Death 3.57 avg rating β€” 42 ratings
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A Very Easy Death
A Very Easy Death 4.06 avg rating β€” 13,268 ratings
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And Finally: Matters of Life and Death
And Finally: Matters of Life and Death 3.73 avg rating β€” 3,452 ratings
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Carrying the Tiger: Living with Cancer, Dying with Grace, Finding Joy While Grieving
Carrying the Tiger: Living with Cancer, Dying with Grace, Finding Joy While Grieving 4.23 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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The Dead Do Talk
The Dead Do Talk 3.75 avg rating β€” 44 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 β€” 195 ratings
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Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life
Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life
by: Ira Byock
4.35 avg rating β€” 1,308 ratings
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Understanding Death: The Most Important Event of Your Life
Understanding Death: The Most Important Event of Your Life 4.52 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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After
After 4.18 avg rating β€” 4,794 ratings
28.
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 β€” 25 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 β€” 131 ratings
28.
Who Dies? : An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
Who Dies? : An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying 4.35 avg rating β€” 717 ratings
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Spirit of Faith: Life after Death (Spirit of Faith Series)
Spirit of Faith: Life after Death (Spirit of Faith Series) 4.92 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God
Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God 3.80 avg rating β€” 392 ratings
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Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die
Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die 3.88 avg rating β€” 320 ratings
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Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors 3.91 avg rating β€” 2,456 ratings
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Good Mourning
Good Mourning 3.60 avg rating β€” 1,365 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 β€” 344 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 β€” 18,872 ratings
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In Search Of Immortality
In Search Of Immortality 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
34.
Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality
Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality 4.25 avg rating β€” 120 ratings
40.
All That Remains: A Life in Death
All That Remains: A Life in Death
by: Sue Black
4.16 avg rating β€” 14,793 ratings
40.
Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death
Words at the Threshold: What We Say as We're Nearing Death 3.72 avg rating β€” 214 ratings
40.
The Iceberg
The Iceberg 3.99 avg rating β€” 1,442 ratings
40.
The Hidden Words Of BahΓ‘'u'llΓ‘h
The Hidden Words Of BahΓ‘'u'llΓ‘h 4.57 avg rating β€” 571 ratings
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The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die
The Mourner's Dance: What We Do When People Die 3.75 avg rating β€” 108 ratings
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Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber
Grace & Grit: Spirituality & Healing in the Life & Death of Treya Killam Wilber 4.47 avg rating β€” 1,765 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 β€” 1,083 ratings
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Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
Life After Death: The Burden of Proof 3.84 avg rating β€” 2,643 ratings
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Being Brett: Chronicle of a Daughter's Death
Being Brett: Chronicle of a Daughter's Death 3.97 avg rating β€” 36 ratings
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Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts
Mindfully Facing Disease and Death: Compassionate Advice from Early Buddhist Texts 4.51 avg rating β€” 53 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 β€” 631 ratings
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All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation Into the Death Trade
All the Living and the Dead: A Personal Investigation Into the Death Trade 4.25 avg rating β€” 11,729 ratings
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Through the Dark Forest: Transforming Your Life in the Face of Death
Through the Dark Forest: Transforming Your Life in the Face of Death 3.91 avg rating β€” 11 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 β€” 3,174 ratings
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The American Way of Death Revisited
The American Way of Death Revisited 3.97 avg rating β€” 2,582 ratings
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On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
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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How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence 4.27 avg rating β€” 82,450 ratings
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Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise
Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America’s Healthcare Promise 3.68 avg rating β€” 41 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 β€” 139 ratings
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Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief
Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief 4.35 avg rating β€” 283 ratings
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Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief
Loving Someone Who Has Dementia: How to Find Hope while Coping with Stress and Grief 4.22 avg rating β€” 402 ratings
61.
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing
The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing 4.09 avg rating β€” 778 ratings
62.
Death: A Reader
Death: A Reader 4.31 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
63.
American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning
American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning 3.78 avg rating β€” 197 ratings