Booklist for dying with grace
The world of Death and Dying is full of wonderful and meaningful resources, here are a few in each category that my clients have found most helpful.
What Do I Say? Talking with Patients About Spirituality
Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
Being Present with the Dying
Talking About Death
Virginia Morris
Being Present with the Dying
Being with the Dying, Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Joan Halifax
Buddhist Teachings
When Breath Becomes Air
Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life
Megory Anderson & Thomas Moore
Celebrations and Rituals
The Pagan Book of Living and Dying
Starhawk & M. Macha Nightmare
Celebrations and Rituals
Straight Talk about Death for Teenagers
Earl Grollman
Children – Understanding Death
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Joan Halifax
Conscious Dying
The Four Things That Matter Most
Ira Byock
Conscious Dying
Exit Strategy: Thinking Outside the Box
Michelle Cromer
Creative Endings
Your Digital Undertaker-Exploring Death in the Digital Age in Canada
Sharon Hartung
Digital Estate Planning
The Final Crossing, Learning to Die in Order to Live
Dr. Scott Eberle
Exploring Death
Moving Beyond Loss
Russell Friedman and John W. James
Grief and Loss
Undertaken with Love: A Home Funeral Guide for Families and Community Care Groups
Holly Stevens and Donna Belk
Home Funerals
Crossings: Caring for Our Own Death – Resource Guide
Beth Knox
Home Funerals
Sign Posts of Dying: What You Need to Know
Martha Jo Atkins
Language of Dying
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Frank Ostraseski
Living Fully
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End
Atul Gawande
Medical Side of Death
No One Dies Alone
Dr. Joseph Volpe
Physician – Memoir
After I’m Gone: Thoughts, Wishes, Memories & Secrets to Share with Those I Love
Susan Davies
Planning & Advanced Directives
Dealing Creatively with Death: A Manual of Death Education & Simple Burial
Ernest Morgan
Planning & Advanced Directives
Rituals for Living and Dying: How We Can Turn Loss and the Fear of Death into an Affirmation of Life
David Fernstein and Peg Elliott Mayo
Rituals and Ceremony
On Death and Dying
Elisabeth Kubler Ross
Seminal Works
Laughing in the Waterfall: A Mother’s Memoir
Marianne Dietzel
The Loss of a Child
A Broken Heart Still Beats: After Your Child Dies
Anne McCracken & Mary Semel
The Loss of a Child
Alison’s Gift: The Sound of a Hundred Hearts Opening
Pat Hogan
The Loss of a Child
Someone I Love is Dying
Jeanne Sedun
Transitional Navigation
Sacred Passage: How to Provide Fearless, Compassionate Care for the Dying
Margaret Coberly
Being Present with the Dying
No One Has to Die Alone: Preparing for a Meaningful Death
Lani Leary and Jean Watson
Caring for the Dying
Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese
Cancer – Memoir
Parting Ways: New Rituals and Celebrations of Life’s Passing
Denise Carson
Celebrations and Rituals
Lifetimes: The beautiful way to explain death to children
Bryan Mellonie & Robert Ingpen
Children – Understanding Death
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf
Leo Buscaglia
Children – Understanding Death
Living Consciously, Dying Gracefully Nancy Manahan & Becky Bohan
Nancy Manahan & Becky Bohan
Conscious Dying
The Needs of the Dying
Michelle Cromer
Creative Endings
Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen
Creative Endings
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Irvin D. Yalom
Exploring Death
Lessons from the Dying
Rodney Smith
Exploring Death
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
Martin Prechlel
Grief
My Good Grief
Cindyanne Kershaw
Grief
Home Funeral Ceremonies: A Primer to Honour the Dying and the Dead with Reverance, Ligh-heartedness, and Grace
Donna Belk and Kateyanne Unullisi
Home Funerals
Mourning and Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner’s Path Through Grief to Healing
Rabbi Anne Brener
Jewish Mourning
Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
Stephen Levine and Ondrea Levine
Living Fully
Going Out Green
Bob Butz
Natural Burial
A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices.
Sandra Martin
Physician Assisted Death
After I Go, You Should Know
Funeral Consumers Alliance
Planning & Advanced Directives
Last Wishes: A Funeral Planning Manual and Survivors Guide
Malcolm James & Victoria Lynn
Planning & Advanced Directives
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Francis Weller and Michael Lerner
Rituals and Ceremony
Visions, Trips and Crowded Rooms
David Kessler
The Dying Process
It’s OK to Die
Dr. Monica Williams-Murphy and Kristian Murphy
The Dying Process
At the End of Life
Lee Gutkind
The Dying Process
Soul Rescuers: A 21st Century Guide to the Spirit World
Terry O’Sullivan and Natalia O’Sullivan
Transitional Navigation
Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
Michael Newton
Transitional Navigation
