Death, grief, loss books- deep thinking

Hello everyone. I studied Thanatology in university and am finding an empty space where books were once recommended.

I am looking for books, fiction and non-fiction, that talk about death, grief and deep thinking concepts. Not workbook type books, but story based.

I am coming from a white perspective and would like different diverse recommendations included.

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I think often of the quote from Alan Watts, “We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean "waves," the universe "peoples." Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.”