Lee, Barbara Coombs
Summary: "...Finish Strong is for those of us who want an end-of-life experience to match the life we've enjoyed. We know we should prepare, but are unsure how to think and talk about it, how to live true to our values and priorities, and how to make our wishes stick. The usual advice about advance directives and conversations is important but woefully inadequate. This book describes concrete action in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Compassion & Choices 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 LEEClayton, Karen J.
Summary: "People often do not avail themselves of hospice care available to patients and families dealing with terminal illness, because they don't understand what it entails. Many wait until their last few days to request this extraordinary comfort care instead of using the full six months available to them through Medicare and other insurance options. Demystifying Hospice describes, through stories,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.02 CLAFeder, Tyler
Summary: "Tyler Feder shares her story of her mother's first oncology appointment to facing reality as a motherless daughter in this frank and refreshingly funny graphic memoir"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 362.17 FEDArthur, Alua
Summary: "A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America's preeminent death doula"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 306.9 ARTCopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Aging ArthurSummary: Frontline teams up with writer and surgeon Atul Gawande to examine how doctors care for terminally ill patients. In conjunction with Gawande's new book, Being Mortal, the film explores the relationships between doctors and patients nearing the end of life, and shows how many doctors, including himself, struggle to talk honestly and openly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV BEIHigashimura, Akiko
Summary: "High schooler Akiko has big plans to become a popular mangaka before she even graduates, but she needs to get much better at drawing if she ever wants to reach her goal. Looking for an easy fix, she signs up for an art class, thinking all her problems will soon be solved. She's in for a surprise: her new instructor is a sword-wielding taskmaster who doesn't care about manga one bit. But maybe...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 BLAKane, Jeff.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperSan Francisco 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.8 KANFerrer, Gustavo
Summary: "When we are thrust into the role of caregiver for a loved one who is in the process of dying, it's easy to get overwhelmed. Yet it's a situation millions of us face every year with virtually no sort of preparation or guidance. With Graceful Exit, Dr. Gustavo Ferrer offers an all-in-one resource for anyone tasked with managing the end-of-life care of a loved one" -- Amazon.com.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sounds True 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616 FERLouis, Rick
Summary: "A graphic novel memoir recounting one parent's unique and wrenching journey caring for a child with a terminal diagnosis. When Rick and Emily's infant son Ronan is diagnosed with Tay-Sachs, an incurable neurological disorder, they are faced with the practical and emotional hurdles of parenting and loving their son--despite the shadow of inevitable loss. Rick Louis narrates this original...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LOUCoutts, Marion
Summary: The author recounts the painful time in her life when her husband was dying of a brain tumor while her young son was just developing language.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Cat 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 COUTTS, MARION COUEgan, Kerry
Summary: "A hospice chaplain passes on wisdom on giving meaning to life, from those taking leave of it. As a hospice chaplain, Kerry Egan didn't offer sermons or prayers, unless they were requested; in fact, she found, the dying rarely want to talk about God, atleast not overtly. Instead, she discovered she'd been granted an invaluable chance to witness firsthand what she calls the "spiritual work of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 EGASchwartz, Morris S.
Summary: "From the eponymous subject of the beloved classic Tuesdays with Morrie comes an insightful, poignant masterpiece on staying vibrant and connected for life. Who am I really? What have I done? What is important and meaningful to me? What difference does it make that I have lived? What does it mean to be truly human, and where am I on that scale? Morrie Schwartz, the beloved subject of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 158.1 SCHKübler-Ross, Elisabeth.
Summary: One of the most famous psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and conducted by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross. In On Death and Dying, Dr. Kübler-Ross first introduced and explored the now-famous idea of the five stages of dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1997
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Summary: "A series of interviews on the topics of end-of-life care and the right-to-die movement"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 179.7 REHCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 179.7 REHKalanithi, Paul
Summary: At the age of 36, on the verge of a completing a decade's worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi's health began to falter. He started losing weight and was wracked by waves of excruciating back pain. A CT scan confirmed what Paul, deep down, had suspected: he had stage four lung cancer, widely disseminated. One day, he was a doctor making a living treating the dying, and the next,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016
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2 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 KALANITHI, PAUL KALRapp Black, Emily
Summary: ""Congratulations on the resurrection of your life," a colleague wrote to Emily Rapp Black when she announced the birth of her second child. The line made Emily pause. Her first child, a boy named Ronan, had died before he turned three years old from Tay-Sachs disease, an experience she wrote about in her first book, The Still Point of the Turning World. Since that time her life had changed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RAPP BLACK, EMILY RAPVan Bronkhorst, Jeanne
Summary: Explores the important role that dreams can play for those who are in an end-of-life process, those providing support, and loved ones whose lives are touched by the transition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Llewellyn Publications 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 154 VANWinn, Raynor
Summary: "The incredible follow-up to the international bestseller The Salt Path, a story of finding your way back home. Nature holds the answers for Raynor and her husband Moth. After walking 630 homeless miles along The Salt Path, living on the windswept and wild English coastline; the cliffs, the sky and the chalky earth now feel like their home. Moth has a terminal diagnosis, but together on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WINBauerschmidt, Tim
Summary: "When Miss Norma was diagnosed with uterine cancer, she was advised to undergo surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. But instead of confining herself to a hospital bed for what could be her last stay, Norma--newly widowed after nearly seven decades of marriage--rose to her full height of five feet and told her doctor, 'I'm ninety years old. I'm hitting the road.' Packing what she needed, Norma...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harperone, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: "Courageous, insightful and candid thoughts on malady and mortality from one of our most celebrated writers"--Provided by the publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twelve 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HITCHENS, CHRISTOPHER HITKübler-Ross, Elisabeth.
Summary: Focuses on the patient as a human being and a teacher, able to impart knowledge about the final stages of life. Examines the attitudes of the dying and the factors that contribute to society's anxiety over death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Renaissance 2005
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Summary: "As the Senior Rabbi of one of the largest synagogues in the world, Steve Leder has learned over and over again the many ways death teaches us how to live and love more deeply by showing us not only what is gone, but also the beauty of what remains"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.9 LEDRiggs, Nina
Summary: "Built on her wildly popular Modern Love column, 'When a Couch is More Than a Couch' (9/23/2016), a breathtaking memoir of living meaningfully with 'death in the room' by the 38 year old great-great-great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson, mother to two young boys, wife of 16 years, after her terminal cancer diagnosis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 RIGGS, NINA RIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio RiggsWinn, Raynor
Summary: "Raynor Winn returns with her third and most ambitious memoir, a chronicle of her journey across Great Britain. As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and to the land? Are we united enough to see protection of the environment as a priority? These are the questions Raynor asks herself as she embarks on her most ambitious walk to date with her husband...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023