Visualizing End of Life Issues
RESOURCES – COMICS & GRAPHIC MEMOIRS
A great place to start is to review the University of Chicago course Death Panels: Exploring Death and Dying Through Comics, taught by MK Czerwiec, RN, and
and Brian Callender, MD. The books are listed below.
Cancer Vixon
Marisa Acocella Marchetto
"What happens when a shoe-crazy, lipstick-obsessed, wine-swilling, pasta-slurping, fashion-fanatic, single-forever, about-to-get-married big-city girl cartoonist with a fabulous life finds... a lump in her breast?"
The following books, comics and otherwise are required and suggested texts for University of Chicago course KNOW 37015:Death Panels – Exploring Dying and Death through Comics, taught by Brian Callender, MD and MK Czerwiec, RN.
I Will See You Again
Lisa Boivin
Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier
Dancing at the Pity Party
Tyler Feder
Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371a
MK Czierwiec
You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife
Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir
By Rick Louis and Lara Antal
Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love
Marissa Moss
What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter
Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman
Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
Tom Hart
Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park: . . . When You're 29 and Unemployed
Aneurin Wright
Special Exits
Joyce Farmer
Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Sarah Leavitt
The House
Paco Roca
Cry, Heart, But Never Break
Glenn Ringtved and Charlotte Pardi
Outbreak! Plagues that Changed History
Bryn Barnard
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
Katy Butler
Dying Well
Ira Byock
Speaking for the Dying: Life-And-Death Decisions in Intensive Care
Susan P. Shapiro
Lgbtq-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice
Kimberly D Acquaviva
Tying Rocks to Clouds: Meetings and Conversations with Wise and Spiritual People (Revised)
William Elliott
Ernest Becker
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
Caitlin Doughty and Landis Blair
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Mary Roach
Paul Kalanithi
The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Nina Riggs
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition
Sherwin B. Nuland
Life Support: Invitation to Prayer
Judith Cohen Margolis
Digital Death: Mortality and Beyond in the Online Age
Dave Lewis
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages
Leo Buscaglia