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    Looking for books written by either people who have experienced illness or terminal decline, or the family or medical caregivers who have provided care for people who have experienced illness or death from illness. I have read so many of them that I've listed them below to avoid being recommended books I've already read:

    I have already read:

    -Here If You Need Me by Kate Braestrup

    -In The Midst of Life by Jennifer Worth

    -The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski

    -Hospice Whispers by Carla Cheathem

    -Love and Fear by Renshin Bunce

    -Briefly Perfectly Human by Alua Arthur

    -Advice For Future Corpses (And Those Who Love Them) by Sallie Tisdale

    -The In-Between by Hadley Vlahos

    -Smoke Gets In Your Eyes And Other Lessons From The Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

    -Memento Mori by Joanna Ebenstein

    -Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

    -Knocking On Heaven's Door by Katy Butler

    -This Is Assisted Dying by Stefanie Green

    -Buddha In The Waiting Room by Paul Brenner

    -Dancing At The Edge of Life by Gale Warner

    -With The End In Mind by Kathryn Mannix

    -Being With Dying by Joan Halifax

    -In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger

    -Influencing Death by Hospice Nurse Penny

    -A Year To Live by Steven Levine

    -The Good Death by Ann Neuman

    -Is There A Heaven For A G?

    -The Beauty Of What Remains by Steven Leder

    -When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

    -The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman

    -The Undying by Anne Boyer

    -Memorial Days by Geraldine Brooks

    -Between Two Kingdoms by Suleika Jaouad

    edit: also have read The Cancer Diaries by Audrey Lorde and The Emperor of All Maladies

    by SignificantChange496

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    1. mystic_turtledove on

      You have a quite a long list here already. I hope you get some more recommendations. I have not read the following book, but it’s on my list of books I’d like to read and it might be the only one I know of that’s not already on your list – it may or may not be of interest to you, but I thought it worth mentioning:

      **At Heaven’s Door: What Shared Journeys to the Afterlife Teach About Dying Well and Living Better**
      by William J. Peters

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