Books about the end

A short shelf for people who took the quiz and want to keep thinking about it. The frog picked these. They are about living with the fact, not about the number.

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• Being Mortal

  Atul Gawande

  A surgeon on aging, care, and what people actually want at the end. Practical and kind, with no jokes required.

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• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

  Caitlin Doughty

  A young woman takes a job at a crematory and writes down what she learns. The frog's favorite funny book about the topic.

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• The Denial of Death

  Ernest Becker

  The 1973 classic on why people organize their whole lives around not thinking about this. Dense, and worth it.

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• The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning

  Margareta Magnusson

  Clear out your stuff now so nobody else has to. Short, warm, and surprisingly useful.

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• Four Thousand Weeks

  Oliver Burkeman

  About 4,000 weeks is the length of an average life. This is a book about what to do with them.

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