For anyone who has received a diagnosis or otherwise felt time sharply narrow. Not a route about fighting illness, but about how the mind actually works in that moment.
A neurosurgeon's account of learning, at thirty-six, that he had terminal lung cancer — an attempt to work out, from the inside, what gives a life meaning once time stops being an unlimited resource.
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.
A near-plotless portrait of a lifelong bureaucrat who learns he is dying and discovers, almost too late, what it might mean to actually live.
A psychiatrist who survived several concentration camps distills his ordeal into a method of therapy: a person can endure almost any suffering if they can locate even a trace of personal meaning within it.
Enjoy it now, before it's too late. Just enjoy it as much as you can.
A knight back from the Crusades into a plague-stricken land plays a game against Death, less to buy time than to force an answer to whether God exists at all.
Death is not the end of the story; it is another kind of conversation. In Lincoln's afterlife, people continue to argue, love, suffer. Death is just another room.