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What are the best books that deal with suffering from chronic or terminal illness?
I have recently been diagnosed with a terrible illness and I haven't been able to do anything but cry. Every bit of enjoyment of life has been brutally stripped away.

>> No.16025657

I love everybody.

>> No.16025682
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I don't have any recommendations but I'm sorry op. Shit's rough but hang in there.

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>>16025650
God bless you OP

>> No.16025696

>>16025650
I understand anon, I'm sorry to hear. Maybe nietzsche?

>> No.16025707

Eastern philosophy.

Bhagavad gita

>> No.16025712

Not a book but the Kurosawa film Ikiru may be worth watching for you. It's about a character who is in that exact position.

>> No.16025713

>>16025650
My other half is a palliative care doc so is full of recommendations:

Because Cowards Get Cancer Too (Diamond)
Being Mortal (Gawande)
With the end in mind (Maddox)

>> No.16025783

>>16025650

In Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl you'll learn that suffering creates meaning, but I am not sure if Logotherapy would help or not. It might be worth a try.

Otherwise, there's been some studies done on using LSD/Mushrooms to let people come to terms with terminal illnesses, so that might be worth a try aswell

>> No.16025792

>>16025650
do you hate nazis, pedos, druggies?

>> No.16025833

>>16025713
>Because Cowards Get Cancer Too (Diamond)
by john diamond who was best known as nigella lawson's first husband. that is a good book.

>> No.16025864

what illness? aids?

>> No.16025879

Tuesdays with Morrie

>> No.16026104

>>16025650
Unironically these manga chapters.
It deals with a intelligent, brave man, a genius, who is diagnosticated with severe alzheimers
Read from chapter 137 (funeral)
Until the end
https://mangadex.org/chapter/93759/1

>> No.16026121

>>16026104
Adding to this: it WILL cure the dread you feel about your situation right now. You have to trust me on this one OP

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>>16025650
What do you have, fren?

>> No.16026302

>Phaedo to realize that death is not so bad
>anything by Nietzsche (especially Gay Science since he had just recovered from a terrible streak of illness when he wrote it)
>The death of Ivan Ilyich
>notebooks of malte laurin brigge
(don't read the last two if you want something uplifting)

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Guy died of terminal cancer and blamed it on his parents and never having had a gf

>> No.16027333

>>16026302
>The death of Ivan Ilyich
Are you trying to make OP kill himself?
Don't read Ivan Ilyich OP. It is harrowing even when you are well.