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
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"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?"
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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.
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I Will See You Again
Lisa Boivin
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Ghosts: A Graphic Novel
Raina Telgemeier
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Dancing at the Pity Party
Tyler Feder
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Taking Turns: Stories from HIV/AIDS Care Unit 371a
MK Czierwiec
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You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife
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Ronan and the Endless Sea of Stars: A Graphic Memoir
By Rick Louis and Lara Antal
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Can't We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast
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Last Things: A Graphic Memoir of Loss and Love
Marissa Moss
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What to Do When I'm Gone: A Mother's Wisdom to Her Daughter
Suzy Hopkins and Hallie Bateman
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Rosalie Lightning: A Graphic Memoir
Tom Hart
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Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park: . . . When You're 29 and Unemployed
Aneurin Wright
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Special Exits
Joyce Farmer
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Tangles: A Story about Alzheimer's, My Mother, and Me
Sarah Leavitt
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The House
Paco Roca
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Cry, Heart, But Never Break
Glenn Ringtved and Charlotte Pardi
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Outbreak! Plagues that Changed History
Bryn Barnard
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The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
Katy Butler
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Dying Well
Ira Byock
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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
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Ernest Becker
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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
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The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying
Nina Riggs
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How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter, New Edition
Sherwin B. Nuland
Life Support: Invitation to Prayer
Judith Cohen Margolis
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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