What are some good books on death? Philosophy, fiction, nonfiction, whatever. So far I have >The Death of Ilya Ilyich >Phaedo >the lyrics to UGK's 'One Day'

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Anonymous Tue Nov 3 20:32:37 2015 No.7318898 [Reply] [Original]

What are some good books on death? Philosophy, fiction, nonfiction, whatever. So far I have
>The Death of Ilya Ilyich
>Phaedo
>the lyrics to UGK's 'One Day'

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 20:47:42 2015 No.7318954 Denial of Death by Ernest Becker. It was Bill Clinton favourite book.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 20:52:33 2015 No.7318971

Céline was self-admittedly obsessed by death, so any of his books would do.

Hermann Broch's Death of Virgil and Primo Levi's If this is a Man might be up your alley.

Hesse's Narcissus and Goldmund.

PKD's Ubik.

Hamlet, Lear and to some extent Julius Caesar might also count.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 21:01:09 2015 No.7319020 >>7318971 >PKD Valis was also partially about mortality

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