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Advance care planning / Decision making

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Culture

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Decision making - see Advance care planning

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Education

Emotions

Ethics

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Health care directives - see Advance care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Indigenous people

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Living wills - see Advance care planning

Living with illness

Medical assistance in dying (MAiD)

Multicultural - see Culture

Nutrition - see Symptoms - Lack of appetite / weight loss

Personal stories

Books

The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying An exquisite memoir about how to live—and love—every day with “death in the room,” from poet Nina Riggs, mother of two young...

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved Kate Bowler is a professor at Duke Divinity School with a modest Christian upbringing, but she specializes in the study of...

Help Me I Hurt Using the Three R’s, realize, recognize, and rebuild the authors present a manner for navigating the process of grief.

Honoring the Mystery: Uplifting Insights from the Language, Visions and Dreams of the Dying The author shares a collection of stories from personal insights and professional experiences centered on the mysterious...

I Can’t Stop Crying: Grief and Recovery, A Compassionate Guide “This book looks at how being bereaved affects relationships with family and friends, lifestyle, work habits, and hopes for...

"I don't have time for this": A compassionate guide to caring for your parents and yourself. As well known palliative care physician, Ira Byock, notes "the author deftly melds personal and professional experience to...

The Last Lecture This book captures the humor, inspiration and intelligence of the last lecture delivered by Randy Pausch, a computer science...

The Long Hello: Memory, My Mother, and Me A stirring memoir of a daughter caring for a mother with dementia that is sure to become a touchstone for many others.

The Private Worlds of Dying Children Stories of dying children and how they cope with illness.

When Autumn Comes: Creating Compassionate Care for the Dying Based on her years of experience as a hospice volunteer, the author offers practical advice and thoughtful reflection on...