Two non-fiction works come to mind immediately: Autobiography of Dying by Archie Hahn, a newspaper editor with ALS, and Diary of a Dying Man by William Soutar, a Scottish poet. The former is long out of print, but the latter is available from Canongate, a Scots firm that is distributed in the US. Also, a fictional work worth looking at is Eighty-Sixed by David Feinberg, about a young man dying with AIDS (which Feinberg died from shortly after the novel was published). In fact, the AIDS epidemic has produced a number of excellent works in this vein, although the Feinberg is the only one that comes to my mind immediately. George Robinson