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• Death -- Philosophy
• Dying
• End of life

• Perspectives on Death and Dying (electronic edition, 2002), ed. by Philip A. Pecorino (HTML and PDF files at SUNY Suffolk)
• After Death -- What?, by Leoline L. Wright (HTML at TUP)
• The Biology of Death: Being a Series of Lectures Delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston in December 1920 (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., c1922), by Raymond Pearl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Consolation: A Spiritual Experience (Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, c1922), by Albion Fellows Bacon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Death (New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1912), by Maurice Maeterlinck, trans. by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos (HTML at kellscraft.com)
• Death-- and After?, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)
• Death and its Mystery (3 volumes; New York and London: The Century Co., 1922-1923), by Camille Flammarion, trans. by Eleanor Stimson Brooks and Latrobe Carroll
  • Volume I (Before Death): multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II (At the Moment of Death): page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume III (After Death): multiple formats at archive.org
• Here and Hereafter, or, Man in Life and Death: The Reward of the Righteous and the Destiny of the Wicked (Washington: Review and Herald Publishing Association, 1897), by Uriah Smith (HTML with commentary at lionofjudah1.org)
• Dealings With the Dead: Narratives From "La Légende de la Mort En Basse Bretagne" (London: G. Redway, 1898), by Anatole Le Braz, trans. by Mrs. A. E. Whitehead, contrib. by Arthur Lillie and Émile Souvestre
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Passing -- And Life Afterward, by Max Heindel (illustrated HTML at rosicrucian.com)
• The Intermediate World (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: C. T. Dillingham, 1878), by L. T. Townsend (multiple formats at archive.org)
• On the Threshold of the Spiritual World: A Study of Life and Death Over There (New York: G. Sully and Co., c1919), by Horatio W. Dresser (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Ministry of Angels Here and Beyond (fifth edition; London: G. Bell and Sons, 1920), by Joy Snell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Spirits of the Dead: Do They Speak and Hear? (c1984), by Joe Crews (HTML at amazingfacts.org)

• Observation Intéressante et Mémoire a Consulter Sur la Maladie d'une Petite Fille et l'État de Son Cadavre: Où L'on Invite les Habiles Médecins du Royaume À Prononcer Sur la Cause de Sa Mort (in French; 1778), by Gabriel-Hubert Retz (page images at NIH)

• Selected Journals on Grieving: King's College 16th International Conference on Death and Bereavement, May 10-13, 1998, London, Ontario, Canada, ed. by Harry Van Bommel (HTML at carelibrary.com)

• The Way Things Happen: A Story in Three Acts (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by Clemence Dane (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Philosophical Dissertation Upon Death, Composed for the Consolation of the Unhappy (title page has "Phliosophical"; London: W. Mears, 1732), by Alberto Radicati
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Swete and Devoute Sermon of Holy Saynt Ciprian of Mortalitie of Man; The Rules of a Christian Lyfe Made by Picus Erle of Mirandula: Bothe Translated Into Englyshe by Syr Thomas Elyot, Knyghte (London: T. Bertheleti, 1534), by Saint Cyprian and Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, trans. by Thomas Elyot (at name.umdl.umich.edu)
• A Letter to a Friend, Upon Occasion of the Death of His Intimate Friend, by Thomas Browne (HTML at Renascence Editions)

• Machine of Death: A Collection of Stories About People Who Know How They Will Die (2010), ed. by Ryan North, Matthew Bennardo, and David Malki ! (PDF files with commentary at machineofdeath.net)
• The Crooked Letter (2006), by Sean Williams (PDF with commentary at pyrsf.com)
• The Altar of the Dead, by Henry James (Gutenberg text)
• Just Away: A Story of Hope (Cooperstown, NY: Crist, Scott and Parshall, 1906), by Della T. Lutes (page images at HathiTrust)
• As I Lay Dying (originally published 1930), by William Faulkner (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Black Bryony (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923), by Theodore Francis Powys, illust. by R. A. Garnett (multiple formats at Faded Page)
• The Death of Ivan Ilych, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Louise Maude and Aylmer Maude (multiple formats at CCEL)
• Weighed in the Balance (New York: R. Carter and Bros., 1869), by Sarah Stuart Robbins (multiple formats at Google)
• Legend (London: Heinemann, 1919), by Clemence Dane
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2003), ed. by Peter Narváez (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Of Corpse: Death and Humor in Folklore and Popular Culture (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2003), ed. by Peter Narváez (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Trilby, the Fairy of Argyle (Boston: Lamson, Wolffe and Co., 1895), by Charles Nodier, trans. by Minna Caroline Smith
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Bede's Charity (New York: Dodd and Mead, 1872), by Hesba Stretton (multiple formats at Google)
• The English at the North Pole: Part I of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras, by Jules Verne (Gutenberg text with map)
• Friends Till Death (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Laddie (ca. 1894), by Evelyn Whitaker (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Arthur Hamilton, and His Dog (Boston: Massachusetts Sabbath School Society, 1851) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Shadow of Death; Studies of Death (reprint of books originally published 1893 and 1894; New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1984), by Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Eine Studie über den Selbstmord, von Jüdischem Standpunkte (extract from the journal 'Hamechaker', in German; Budapest: S. Grünhut, 1878), by Aron Roth
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Book of Memory: The Birthday Book of the Blessed Dead (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1906), ed. by Katharine Tynan (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Floral Wreath of Autumn Flowers (sixth edition; Detroit: Kerr, Doughty and Lapham, n.d.), by Caroline Bowles Southey (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• The Grave: A Poem (with illustrations, and a life of the author by Hall; Philadelphia: W.P. Hazard, 1857), by Robert Blair, contrib. by S. C. Hall
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• The Grave: A Poem (London: Methuen and Co., 1903), by Robert Blair, contrib. by Henry Fuseli, illust. by William Blake and Luigi Schiavonetti
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Thoreau's Flute: A Poem (Berkeley Heights, NJ: Oriole Press, 1950), by Louisa May Alcott (page images at HathiTrust)

• Perspectives on Death and Dying (electronic edition, 2002), ed. by Philip A. Pecorino (HTML and PDF files at SUNY Suffolk)
• Reflections on War and Death (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1918), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill and Alfred B. Kuttner (Gutenberg text)

• The Tuma Underworld of Love: Erotic and Other Narrative Songs of the Trobriand Islanders and Their Spirits of the Dead (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2011), by Gunter Senft (PDF with commentary at John Benjamins e-Platform)
• Reminiscences of the Best Hours of Life for the Hour of Death (Boston: Joseph Dowe, 1841), by Jean Paul (page images at Google)
• Nearing Home: Comforts and Counsels for the Aged, by William Edward Schenck (page images at MOA)
• A Short Account of the Exemplary Life and Triumphant Death of Theodosia Maxey, a Young Woman of Virginia, Whose Death Happened on the 3d Day of March, 1793 (Philadelphia: Printed for W. Glendinning by W. W. Woodward, 1794) (HTML at Evans TCP)
• The Intermediate State and Prayers for the Dead, Examined in the Light of Scripture, and of Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature (London: J. Nisbet and Co., 1900), by Charles H. H. Wright (multiple formats at Google)

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