This is one of the most heart touching books and the writer John Green will surely make you cry. Stephen Levine enlightens us on the importance of living each moment, each hour, each day to the fullest. It helps you deal with unfinished business and cherish life so that later you don’t feel that the ultimate moment came too soon. After conducting a year long experiment of thinking that he had only one year to live, he shares with us that preparing for death is the most rational thing to do. He puts great emphasis on the fact that even though many of us like to either deny or laugh off the fact that we are all going to die someday, time is running out and there is a lot that we need to achieve in so little time. This book is unique in it’s own way and the writer Stephen Levine enlightens us on the importance of living each moment, each hour, each day to the fullest. 2.) A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last It also talks about how a new father plans on nurturing a new life as his own life fades away. This book is a true reflection of how facing death can be very challenging and how from being a successful doctor you can be a patient struggling to live. He makes us wonder how coming face to face with one’s mortality changes nothing but then again everything. A neurosurgeon, his life turned upside down when he was transformed into a patient from a doctor at Stanford. He was diagnosed with stage four lung cancer when he was just thirty-six years old. This book is written by Paul Kalanithi who teaches us a whole new way of looking at life by giving us an insight on his first hand experience with a terminal illness. We hope they give you a new perspective to look at the precious life. This list contains a mixture of non-fiction and fiction books. Below is a curated list of ten books, in which the main character is suffering from a terminal illness. We get immersed into the shoes of someone else, and sometimes, we get powerfully inspired. Stories of struggle and courage lend us a different pair of glasses to see the world. However, I believe reading such books is a worthy and a worthwhile exercise. Reading books about illness and suffering may not be everyone’s cup of tea. And when we see the ones who are suffering, living out their lives with grace, strength and love – we indeed take inspiration from their powerful energy in the face of all odds. It is when we witness the challenges and hard times that people go through, that we realize the blessings of our own health and circumstances. Being aware of the fact that your life is going to come to an end, is not a knowledge that everyone can cope with. Dealing with a terminal illness is very difficult for the person suffering from it, and their friends, family and other loved ones.
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