Copyright © 2015 by James Park
Selected and reviewed by James Park.
Organized in the
order of quality, beginning with the best.
Comments in red are the
views of this reviewer.
1. Lee Gutkind, editor
At the End of Life:
True Stories About How We Die
(Pittsburgh, PA: Creative
Nonfiction Books, 2012) 255 pages
(Library of Congress call number: R726.9.A88 2012)
(ISBN: 978-1-937163-04-4; paperback)
A
collection of heart-felt accounts of the deaths
of people who were close to these
22 authors.
All well-written and deeply
meaningful.
Offers stimulus for
thinking about our own coming deaths.
5. Gere B. Fulton, PhD., JD. & Eileen K. Metress,
PhD.
Perspectives on Death and Dying
(Boston, MA: Jones & Bartlett Publishers, 1995) 505 pages This book
breaks
no new
ground,
but it does summarize all these issues up to
the middle of the 1990s.
It was developed as a college text for a course
on death and dying.
Created
January 25, 1999; revised 2-26-2009; 5-30-2010; 9-11-2010; 9-2-2015;
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