Last Acts of Kindness: Lessons for the Living from the Bedside of the Dying
Judith Redwing Keyssar, 2010, CreateSpace Independent Publishing

"In these chronicles of a midwife to the dying, Judith Redwing Keyssar speaks eloquently and from her heart about her extensive experience in the field of palliative care––providing nursing expertise along with emotional and spiritual guidance and support for people in hospitals, residential facilities, and in their own homes.

Keyssar encourages us to examine our personal relationships to impermanence and to consider the changes needed in our healthcare system to better serve us all at the end of life.

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
Kathryn Mannix, 2018, Little Brown Spark

Excellent account of how dying often occurs as well as an excellent narrative of palliative care.  Additionally discusses CBT as a road map patients might wish to use to work with difficult emotions.

Life After the Diagnosis
Steven Z. Pantilat, MD, 2017, Da Capo Lifelong Books

In Life After the Diagnosis, Dr. Steven Z. Pantilat makes sense of what doctors say, what they actually mean, and how to get the best information to help make the best medical decisions. Dr. Pantilat covers everything from the first steps after the diagnosis and finding the right caregiving and support, to planning your future so your loved ones don’t have to. He offers advice on how to tackle the most difficult treatment decisions and discussions and shows readers how to choose treatments that help more than they hurt, stay consistent with their values and personal goals, and live as well as possible for as long as possible.

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande, 2017, Metropolitan Press

In his bestselling books, Atul Gawande, a practicing surgeon, has fearlessly revealed the struggles of his profession. Here he examines its ultimate limitations and failures―in his own practices as well as others'―as life draws to a close. Riveting, honest, and humane, Being Mortal shows how the ultimate goal is not a good death but a good life―all the way to the very end.