Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love, Loss and Consolation

I read this because a doctor strongly recommended this on medtwitter, and it was truly as excellent as she said. I've read numerous books on death (62 according to Goodreads), and this is one of the best.* Clarke is an excellent writer and a very observant medical expert. She answers so many questions that even the experience of the death of my parents and all my reading had left unanswered until now.


*My other favorites are: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande, The Death of Ivan Ilych by Tolstoy, The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Nina Riggs, and A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee.