Hello, Mortals Book Club
We can't wait to dive into exploring these books with you. Our book club aims to highlight themes of end of life. For locals, head to Bainbridge Island's Eagle Harbor Bookstore to get your copy (with a small discount when you say it's for our book club), or order it here on our very own Hello, Mortals bookshop.org shop.
Book Club Zoom
November 12, 2024
6:30-8:00PM
Call bookstore (206-842-5332) to sign up or email us
Purchase Online (*and support EdgeWalking Collective)
Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she's ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die. In a brisk, informative, and morbidly funny style, Doughty explores everything from ancient Egyptian death rituals and the science of skeletons to flesh-eating insects and the proper depth at which to bury your pet if you want Fluffy to become a mummy. Now featuring an interview with a clinical expert on discussing these issues with young people--the source of some of our most revealing questions about death--Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? confronts our common fear of dying with candid, honest, and hilarious facts about what awaits the body we leave behind.
by Caitlin Doughty
PREVIOUS BOOK:
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
In this moving and compassionate classic--now updated with new material from the authors--hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years' experience tending the terminally ill.
Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts--of wisdom, faith, and love--that the dying leave for the living to share.
Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.
by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelly
PREVIOUS BOOK:
The Art of Dying Well
The Art of Dying Well will help you live well as possible for as long as possible and adapt successfully to change.​
This down-to-earth manual for living, aging, and dying with comfort, meaning, and even joy is inspired by the medieval death manual Ars Moriendi, or the Art of Dying. It’s the definitive update for our modern age.
by Katy Butler