The best books on Fear of Death

This blog is part of a series called the NewOld - a Dementia Trust project exploring difficult topics and points of view.

People fear dementia more than cancer, possibly because research and developments in cancer care mean that what once was invariably a fatal illness can be cured, or in some cases relegated to the status of a chronic illness that someone can live with. Dementia has no cure and because it happens more often to people who are very old, it is seen in culture and in ordinary discourse as a harbinger of death. And we are afraid of death. This collection of five books is not the most profound engagement with death, but a neat way into a range of thinking about the underlying fears and what drives them. From the website Five Books Link.