Originally aired on Radio DePaul on 2 June 2023, 16:00.

In this episode, Misha (as if she was put into a microwave) gives you her thoughts on all of the death-related books she has read so far. Peep the sources to see the books as they were reviewed in order!

Sources

Caitlin Doughty's books: https://caitlindoughty.com/books/

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach: https://www.maryroach.net/stiff.html

Dancing at the Pity Party by Tyler Feder: https://www.tylerfeder.com/books-1

That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri: https://sunitapuri.com/that-good-night/

Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life by Jessica Nutik-Zitter: https://www.jessicazitter.com/writer

Sorry For Your Trouble: The Irish Way of Death by Ann-Marie Hourihane: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/57684809

I'm Glad by Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy: https://www.jennettemccurdy.com/projects/

All That Remains by Sue Black: https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/people/professor-dame-sue-black-baroness-black-of-strome/

The Last Doctor by Jean Marmoreo & Johanna Scheller: https://www.dr-jean.com/

No Time to Say Goodbye by Carla Fine: https://www.carlafine.com/no_time_to_say_goodbye__surviving_the_suicide_of_a_loved_one_15329.htm

The Hospital Suite by John Porcellino: https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/20613690

So Much I Want to Tell You: Letters to my Little Sister by Anna Akana: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/538870/so-much-i-want-to-tell-you-by-anna-akana/9780399594939/

Further Reading

Left behind after suicide - Harvard Health

Coping after suicide loss | APA

Help Prevent Suicide | SAMHSA 

Touched by Suicide: Bridging The Perspectives of Survivors and Clinicians by Michael F. Myers and Carla Fine, 2007.Trying to keep alive a non‐traumatizing memory of the deceased: A meta‐synthesis on the interpretation of loss in suicide‐bereaved family members, their coping strategies and the effects on them by Rafailia Zavrou et al, 2023.

Coping with suicide loss: a qualitative study in primary health care by Kadri Suija et al, 2022.

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