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For about two decades now, there has been a clearly growing public interest in the topic of dying and death: dying processes are increasingly becoming the focus of various fields of research, and specialised literature on end-of-life care is booming. There is also a noticeable increase in the number of literary accounts of death: More and more writers are writing a last book about their (fatal) illnesses.

"Wie es sich heute stirbt" (How to die today) brings together excerpts from nine literary books on dying, most of which were published in the 2010s, with insightful commentary by the editor Corina Caduff.

In the dying phase, the sick body demands particularly much attention. Accordingly, the authors deal with pain, they discuss nursing care and constantly changing medical measures. Most of the texts deal with the existential fears of dying and death, but also with questions about the ambivalence between wanting to live and wanting to die. The authors are fundamentally concerned with the meaning of life and death. They offer life reviews with autobiographical key scenes, in an effort to gain a narrative coherence from life; they analyse the well-meaning advice of acquaintances and express their concern for relatives and friends who remain behind. Often, different spiritual orientations are negotiated, combined with the radical uncertainty of "where to".

In fact, autobiographical death literature not only portrays individual dying processes, but also social conditions: How does one die if one has hardly dealt with death throughout one's life, because our culture is entirely oriented towards this world? - In this way, the authors explore their own dying process in the midst of our society and make an impressive contribution to making it easier to talk about it.

With around 25-page excerpts each from the following.

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