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Meditations (Penguin Classics)
Marcus Aurelius
Penguin Classics, 2006
Emperor of Rome and himself
+ Profound!
+ The Hays translation: interesting and readable.
+ Wisdom from the Emperor-Philosopher
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The Diving-bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby
HarperPerennial, 2002
A Life Worth Living
+ "bedridden travel notes"
+ Stunningly beautiful
+ Excellent!
+ An inspiring life testament
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The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Vintage, 2007
"Let it go."
+ I can relate...
+ The Year of Magical Thinking
In "The Year of Magical Thinking," Joan Didion chronicles the death of her husband, author and screenwriter John Gregory Dunne. One evening, Dunne died of a severe heart attack while the couple ate dinner. The day had seemed like any other, aside from the fact that they had just returned from a ...
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Death and Eternal Life
John Hick
Westminster John Knox Press, 1994
A journey through death and what might lie beyond ...
I first read John Hick about 12 years ago and this was the first of his books. My understanding of Christianity in general and the nature of life and death in particular were significantly altered by this book and others by Hick. Imagine taking a ride through the various theories of life after ...
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Philosophical Thinking about Death and Dying
Vincent E. Barry
Wadsworth Publishing, 2006
No one likes to think about death, but what if someone asked you what you believed about it? PHILOSOPHICAL THINKING ABOUT DEATH AND DYING walks you through the major metaphysical and ethical issues surrounding death and dying, showing you what others have thought so you can form your own opinion. Plus, it covers what science is telling us about the process of dying. This philosophy textbook is ...
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Life and Death (Hackett Readings in Philosophy)
Jonathan Westphal, Carl Avren Levenson
Hackett Publishing Company, 1993
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Wit
Emma Thompson, Christopher Lloyd
Hbo Home Video, 2001
Amazingly moving movie
+ Wit is one of the best movies you can watch on the meaning of life.
I applaud Emma Thompson for her breathtaking role in this moving portrait of a terminal cancer patient. Amazing. I cried at the scene where her old mentor read the children's story to her. Wit is what movies are supposed to be.
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Free Press Paperbacks, 1998
Clarifying Insight
+ Short review
+ Insightful, brilliant, clearly written, easy to digest, hard to stop thinking about
+ Great book ... Good Stuff
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Death and Philosophy
Jeff Malpas
Routledge, 1999
Death and Philosophy presents a wide ranging and fascinating variety of different philosophical, aesthetic and literary perspectives on death. Death raises key questions such as whether life has meaning of life in the face of death, what the meaning of "life after death" might be and whether death is part of a narrative that can be retold in different ways, and considers the various types of ...
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Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son's Memoir
David Rieff
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Makes You Think
A somewhat digressive but nonetheless penetrating essay dealing with the philosophy and reality of terminal illness. Namely--should a patient whose condition is almost certain to be fatal, be told diplomatically the "truth" about their prognosis, so that they can come to terms with their mortality ...
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My Left Foot (Special Edition)
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker
Miramax, 2005
He really nailed it!
+ My left Foot
+ Daniel Day- Lewis Is The Best Actor Of His Generation
+ Powerful and utterly real
+ My Left Foot
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller; Revised and Updated ...
Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick D. Gaffney, ...
HarperOne, 1994
Breaking down the barriers of mind
+ Fantastic
+ "must reading"
+ WISDOM FOR ALL OF US, WHETHER LIVING, DYING, OR GRIEVING
+ Well Worth Reading
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In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Mourning
Mary Jane Moffat
Vintage, 1992
Profoundly conceived, moving and helpful
+ In the midst of the pages
+ Being
+ The best "mourning anthology" I've seen
+ good literary anthology
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A Grief Observed
C. S. Lewis
HarperOne, 2001
A Grief Analyzed
+ Best book for grief
+ Deep
+ A Book of Great Beauty and Intelligence
+ A Grief Observed
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The Essential Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments (Great Books in ...
Epicurus
Prometheus Books, 1993
The Greek Buddha
+ To Epicurus
+ The antidote to human stupidity and greed.
+ Enjoyed reading Epicurus, but the book can be improved
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