Recommended Reading

Books about death. Dying and loss.

“O nobly-born, that which is called death has now come. Thou art departing from this world, but thou art not the only one: death cometh to all. Do not cling, in fondness and weakness, to this life” – Tibetan Book Of The Dead.

  • Kathryn Mannix – With The End In Mind
  • Kathryn Mannix – Listen
  • Bronnie Ware – The Five Regrets of the Dying
  • Anne-Marie Keppel – Death Nesting
  • Hayley Campbell – All the Living and the Dead
  • Elizabeth Kubler-Ross – On Death And Dying
  • Caitlin Doherty – Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
  • Atul Gawande – Being Mortal
  • Shiela Cassidy – Sharing the Darkness The Spirituality of caring
  • Henry Fersko-Weis – Caring for the Dying: A Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death
  • Walter Evans – Wentz –The Tibetan Book of the Dead
  • Lonely Planet – Lonely Planet’s Guide To death, Grief and Rebirth
  • Amy Mindell – Coma A Healing Journey
  • John O’Donohue – Anam Cara: Spiritual Wisdom from the Celtic World
  • Laura Imai Messina – the Phone Box at the End of the World
  • Rabbi Kerry…. – Grief in our seasons: A Mourners Kaddish Companion
  • Oliver Sacks – How We Die
  • Michelle Zauner – Crying in H Mart
  • Paul Kalanithi – When Breath Becomes Air
  • Laura Imai Messina – The Phone Box at the Edge of the World
  • Milena Cifali – Mallacoota Time

Wellbeing and self-care

  • Hugh Van Cuylenurg – Resilience Project
  • Hugh Mackay – The Kindness Revolution
  • Frank Ostaseski – The Five Invitations
  • Don Migel Ruiz – The Four Agreements
  • Meditations on Living, Dying and Loss (Ancient Knowledge from The Tibetan Book of the Dead)
  • Ken Mogi – Ikigai. Live a happy and long life the Japanese way