A while ago a dear childhood friend of mine passed away suddenly at just 23. Before he died he had been trying to see me for a while but I kept postponing for reasons that feel so trivial now. At first I thought I had processed it relatively well but recently it’s all been hitting me at once. I’ve been feeling waves of sadness, guilt, anger and existential anxiety and it’s been hard to cope.
I’m looking for books that deal honestly with grief and death, not necessarily something comforting but something real. Any recommendations would mean a lot. Movies would be fine too.
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The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune was a comforting book for me when I was going through a period of bereavement.
We All Want Impossible Things by Catherine Newman
When Things Fall Apart
Book by Pema Chödrön
The smallest lights in the universe, pack up the moon, for actual self help- it’s ok not to be ok by Megan Divine