Tag Archives: Books about Terminal Illness and Friendship



Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed by Stephen Levine

Stephen Levine has a conversation about death and dying

“Let this book tear your heart open,” Stephen Levine writes in the introduction to his book Meetings At The Edge: Dialogues With the Grieving and Dying, The Healing and The Healed, a compilation of transcribed conversations Levine had with people … Continue reading

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You Take It From Here by Pamela Ribon

A bittersweet novel about a young mother dying from terminal cancer whose major final request for her best friend makes us question how far we would all go for someone we love.

Similar to its predecessors, Beaches and Steel Magnolias, Pamela Ribon’s You Take It From Here chronicles the roller coaster of a journey between best friends Danielle and Smidge, one of whom left their small southern town for LA, while the other … Continue reading

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