I have a very hard time accepting death. I mean, we all have to die at one point but I’m literally scared of it and just the idea of like never being here again kinda scares me. I want to know like, the experience and what’s it like in the afterlife or if there is an afterlife. Does that make sense? Like a book that will help me learn to accept it and be ok with it.
by BlueberryCheez45
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If you’re open to fiction, read Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. It takes place in a cemetery and is told from the perspectives of ghosts who haven’t accepted their deaths. The book begins with the death and internment of Abraham Lincoln’s young son.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
Journey of Souls by Michael Newton was the book that changed it all for me.
Staring at the Sun is exactly the book you want.
The death of Ivan Ilyich and metamorphosis…man read these two books..please ..
When breath becomes air
Ada by Vladimir Nabokov – the part about the texture of time
Life Safari
by John P. Strelecky
You might like needle in a haystack
The Stranger (The Outsider) by Albert Camus
C. S. Lewis – A Grief Observed
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman–it’s a book that discusses the disconnect between adulthood and childhood and is just a great rumination on grief, love, and loss.