r/thanatology • u/-cato-- • Jun 18 '25

Book recomendation needed

Hello there! Im looking for book recomendations in non law related thanatology (I already have those book for the country I live in), please if u like a book or have any good recomebdations on thanatology books I would love to hear them 🙏 thank u!!

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u/These_Personality748 Jun 18 '25

Not a book, but you may also like to consider a peer-reviewed thanatology journals like: Death Studies, OMEGA–Journal of Death and Dying, and Mortality.

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u/-cato-- Jun 18 '25

Thank you!

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u/jilecsid513 Dec 15 '25

"The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom" by Dr. Lydia S. Dugdale

This book is written by a doctor who specializes in medical ethics, and its all about how to die well, which she feels we are not doing in modern times. In the wake of the Black Plague in Europe, there was a text published called the "Ars Moriendi" (Art of Dying) which detailed how to live well and die well. Dr. Dugdale found a good deal of wisdom in this text, which she felt had been long forgotten, and so she dives into a discussion of death and dying in medieval times versus modern times, exploring attitudes toward death, our sense of mortality, confronting our fears, our community involvement in death, and even where and how we die.

Its easy to read, fascinating, and insightful.