#82 How Reading Shapes Our Experience of Death and Loss - Jade Adgate - Founder, Farewell Fellowship

Jade Adgate and I both love to read and we love to read books that expose us to new angles of death, dying, loss and grief. Sounds miserable, eh? But it’s honestly not. Through reading, we clarify our own thinking and values around these hugely human issues. Whatever you are reading, you can watch for these themes, and you can make it a point to read on hard topics long before you or a loved one needs the information. In this episode, we talk about 20 books that will increase your death literacy!

✨Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

✨When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalanithi

✨Giovanni’s Room, James Baldwin

✨In Love, Amy Bloom (BLBD Podcast #43)

✨When My Time Comes, Diane Rehm

✨Last Day, Dava Shastri

✨Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner 

✨A Matter of Death and Life, Irvin Yalom and Marilyn Yalom

✨The Book of Two Ways, Jodi Picoult

✨The Spanish Love Deception, Elena Armas

✨On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous and Time is a Mother, Ocean Vuong

✨A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver

✨Late Migrations: A Natural History of Loss, Margaret Renkl

✨The Cancer Journals, Audre Lorde

✨Clear Cut: One Woman’s Journey of Life in the Body, Ginny Jordan

✨Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe, Laura Lynn Jackson

✨For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World, Sasha Sagan

✨Death is But A Dream, Dr Christopher Kerr (BLBD Podcast #30 and #31)

✨With the End in Mind + Listen: The Art of Tender Conversations, Dr Kathryn Mannix

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