Recommended Books

If you purchase books using our AZELO-Amazon links we get a small percentage and it does not cost you a penny more. Listed alphabetically by title.

A-Good-Goodbye

A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die
Gail Rubin
2010
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Absolutely-Delicious

Absolutely Delicious: A Chronicle of Extraordinary Dying
Alison Jean Lester
2020
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aid-in-dying

Aid-in-Dying, The Ultimate Argument: The Clear Ethical Case for Physician Assisted Death
Byron Chell
2014
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Being-Mortal

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande, MD
2014
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Choosing-to-Die

Choosing to Die, A Personal Story: Elective Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) in the Face of Degenerative Disease
Phyllis Shacter
2017
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Final Acts

Final Acts: Death, Dying, and the Choices We Make
Nan Bauer-Maglin and Donna Perry, editors
2010
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Final-Exit

Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying
Derek Humphry
3rd Edition Revised, 2010
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Finish-Strong

Finish Strong: Putting Your Priorities First at Life’s End
Barbara Coombs Lee
2nd Edition, 2022
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In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Amy Bloom
2023
AZELO Review
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In-the-Arms-of-Others

In the Arms of Others: A Cultural History of the Right-to-Die in America
Peter Filene
1998
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Judith-Letting-Go

Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World’s Smallest Death Café
Mark Dowie
2024
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
Katy Butler
2014
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On-Death-and-Dying

On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, MD
2014
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Patient-Directed-Dying

Patient-Directed Dying: A Call for Legalized Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill
Tom Preston, MD
2007
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scripting-death

Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America
Mara Buchbinder
2021
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That Good Night

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
Sunita Puri
2020
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The-Day-I-Die

The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
Anita Hannig
2022
AZELO Review
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VSED-handbook

The VSED Handbook: A Practical Guide to Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking
Kate Christie
2022
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This-Is-Assisted-Dying

This Is Assisted Dying: A Doctor’s Story of Empowering Patients at the End of Life
Stefanie Green, MD
2022
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Voluntarily-Stopping-Eating-and-Drinking

Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely-Available Option for Hastening Death
Timothy E. Quill, Paul T. Menzel, and Thaddeus Pope, editors
2021
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Walking-Him-Home

Walking Him Home: Helping My Husband Die with Dignity
Joanne Tubbs Kelly
2022
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When-My-Time-Comes

When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End
Diane Rehm
2020
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