Recommended Books & Videos
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Recommended Books Menu
- Advance Care Planning
- Care of the Dying
- Death and Dying
- Epidemiology
- Funerals and Memorials
- Grief and Bereavement
- Pain and Pain Management
- Palliative Care
- Socio-Cultural Issues
Recommended Videos Menu
- Caregiving and Dying
- Care of the Dying
- Children and Death
- Community Organizing
- Death and Dying
- End-of-Life Decision making
- Grief
- Grief and Bereavement
- Research
- Miscellaneous
Recommended Books
Advance Care Planning [ back to top ]
- Time to Live: Living With A Life Threatening Illness by Kenneth J Doka
- Hard Choices for Loving People by Hank Dunn
Care Of The Dying [ back to top ]
- Bringing the Hospital Home: Ethical and Social Implications of High-Tech Home Care by John D. Arras
- Caring and Coping When Your Loved One Is Seriously Ill by Earl A. Grollman
- Hospice Choice: The National Hospice Organization's Guide to Hospice Care by Marcia Lattanzi-Licht
- How Can I Help? by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
- I'm With You Now by M. Catherine Ray
- Someone You Love Is Dying. How Do You Cope? by Charles A. Corr
- Surviving Modern Medicine-How to Get the Best from Doctors, Family and Friends by Clarke, Peter and Evans, Susan
- What to Eat When You Don't Feel Like Eating by James Haller
Death and Dying [ back to top ]
GeneralMemoirs
- A Few Months to Live: Different Paths to Life's End by Jana Staton, Roger Shuy & Ira Byock
- A Good Death: Challenges, Choices and Care Options by by Charles Meyer
- Art of Dying by Patricia Weenolsen
- Dying Well-Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life by Ira Byock
- Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying by Maggie Callahan and Patricia Kelley
- Handbook for Mortals-Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness by Joanne Lynn, MD and Joan Harrold, MD
- On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler Ross
- One You Love Is Dying: 12 Thoughts to Guide You On The Journey by James E. Miller
- The Four Things that Matter Most by Ira Byock, MD
- When You Know You're Dying: 12 Thoughts to Guide You Through the Days Ahead by James E. Miller
- New Relationship by William Pope
- Raising the Dead: A Doctor's Encounter With His Own Mortality by Richard Selzer
- She Came to Live Out Loud-An Inspiring Family Journey Through Illness, Loss, and Grief by Myra MacPherson
- Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
- Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler Ross, MD
Epidemiology [ back to top ]
Aids and HIVAlzheimer's Disease
- Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price
- Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor by Peter A. Selwyn, MD
Cancer
- Alzheimer's Disease-Frequently Asked Questions: Making Sense of the Journey by Frena Gray-Davidson
- One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
- What to Eat When You Dont Feel Like Eating by James Haller
Funerals and Memorials [ back to top ]
- Coming to Rest: A Guide to Caring for Our Own Dead by Julie Wiskind and Richard Spiegel
- Last Rites: The Work of the Modern Funeral Director by Glennys Howarth
- Praying Through Grief: Healing Prayer Services For Those Who Mourn by Mauryeen O'Brien
Grief and Bereavement [ back to top ]
- Bereavement: It's Psychological Aspects by Schoenberg, Gerber, Wiener, Kutscher, Perety and Carr, Eds.
- Children Mourning, Mourning Children by Hospice Foundation of America, Kenneth J. Doka
- Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief by Dennis Klass, Phyllis Silverman & Steven Nickman Taylor and Francis
- Dear Uncle Dave by Yuri Evelyn Norton
- Dreams to Reality: A Personal Account of Books, Art, and the Spirit Within by William Pope
- Facing Death, Finding Love by Dawson Church
- From Beginning to End-The Rituals of Our Lives by Robert Fulghum
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
- Grief Quest: Reflections For Men Coping With Loss by Robert J. Miller
- Healing and Growing Through Grief by Donna O’Toole
- Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine by Larry Dossey
- Healing Your Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt, PhD
- Help, Comfort, and Hope After Losing Your Baby in Pregnancy or the First Year by Hannah Lothrop
- Journey Through Grief by Alla Renee Bogarth, PhD
- Living With Grief At Work, At School, At Worship by Joyce D. Davidson (Editor), Kenneth J. Doka (Editor)
- Living With Grief After Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke by Kenneth J. Doka
- Mending the Torn Fabric-For Those Who Grieve and Those Who Want to Help Them by Sarah Brabant
- Miscarriage: A Shattered Dream by Sherokee Ilse and Linda Hammer Burns
- Mourning and Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner's Path Through Grief to Healing by Anne Brener
- Praying Through Grief: Healing Prayer Services For Those Who Mourn by Mauryeen O’Brien O.P.
- Swimmers in the Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle
- What Will We Do? Preparing a School Community to Cope With Crisis by Robert G. Stevenson (editor)
- Widower: When Men Are Left Alone by Scott Campbell and Phyllis Silverman
- Women in Mourning: Stories of Grieving Women by Jean Clayton
- Working Through Your Grief by Ronald Sunderland
Pain and Pain Management [ back to top ]
- Culture of Pain by David B. Morris
Palliative Care [ back to top ]
- Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Measures/Only and the Elderly Patient by Hank Dunn
- Living With Dying: A Guide to Palliative Care by Cicily Saunders
- Primer of Palliative Care by Porter Storey, MD
Socio-Cultural Issues [ back to top ]
Arts and the End of LifeChildren and Death
- Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions by Sandra Bertman
- Grief and the Healing Arts by Sandra L. Bertman (editor)
- Illness and Healing: Images of Cancer by Robert Pope
Ethics
- Aarvy Ardvark Finds Hope by Donna O’Toole
- At Peace in the Light by Dannion Brinkley
- Child's View of Grief: A Guide for Caring Adults by Alan Wolfelt
- Childhood and Death by Hammelore Was and Charles A. Corr (Editors)
- Children Mourning, Mourning Children by Hospice Foundation of America, Kenneth J. Doka
- Forever in My Heart by Jennifer Levine
- Grief At School-A Manual for School Personnel by Helen Fitzgerald
- The Next Place by Warren Hanson
- A Panda Bear's Journey: A Heroic Tale of Heart and Home by Rio Alden
- The Private Worlds of Dying Children by Myra Bluebond-Langner
Life Stories
- Social Suffering by Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das and Margaret Lock (editors)
Spiritual well-being
- The Stories We Live By: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self by Dan McAdams
Suicide
- Healer's Calling-A Spirituality for Physicians and Other Health Care Professional by Sulmasy, Daniel P., OFM, MD
- In Search of Stones: A Pilgrimage of Faith, Reason, and Discovery by M. Scott Peck
- Intoxicated By My Illness: And Other Writings on Life and Death by Anatole Broyard
- Joy of Living and Dying in Peace by The Dalai Lama of Tibet
- Life After Death in World Religions by Harold Coward (editor)
- Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the Twelve Steps by Charlotte Davis Kail, PhD
- Native American Religion by Nancy Bonvillain
- Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic, and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman by Malidoma Patrice Some
- Praying Through Grief: Healing Prayer Services for Those Who Mourn by Mauryeen O'Brien
- Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community by Malidoma Patrice Some
- Shelter of Each Other-Rebuilding Our Families by P. L. Mary Pipher, PhD
- Spiritual Care of Dying and Bereaved People by Penelope Wilcock
- Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
Values
- Elder Suicide: Research, Theory, and Treatment by John L. McIntosh, John F. Santos, Richard W. Hubbard, and James C. Overholser
- Writing About the Margin: Discourse Between Anthropology and Medicine by Arthur Kleinman
Recommended Videos
Caregiving and Dying [ back to top ]
- On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying, A Time to Change
Care of the Dying [ back to top ]
- Before I Die: Medical Care and Personal Choices
Children and Death [ back to top ]
- Death of a Friend: TMT Enterprises
Community Organizing [ back to top ]
Death and Dying [ back to top ]
- Rites of Death
- Chalice of Repose: A Contemplative Musician's Approach to Death & Dying
- Mortal Coil: Voices from the Hospice
- Tuesdays with Morrie
End-of-Life Decision making [ back to top ]
- Nov. 11th ER Epsiode:" The Peace of Wild Things"
Grief [ back to top ]
- Grief in the Workplace
- The Compassionate Friends: A National Self-Help Organization for Families Who Have Experienced the Death of a Child
Grief and Bereavement [ back to top ]
- A Child's View of Grief
- At Death's Door: Facing the Terminal Illness of a Loved One
- Beyond Death's Door: Help for the Grieving Process After Someone You Love Has Died
- Is There Something After Life?
- Light Amongst the Shadows: How to Help Those You Care For When Suicide Occurs
- Living With Grief After Sudden Loss
- Living With Grief: Who We Are, How We Grieve
Research [ back to top ]
- Living With Dying: A Community Forum on the End of Life
Miscellaneous [ back to top ]
- Appointment With The Wise Old Dog: Dream Images in a Time of Crisis
- Clergy To Clergy: Helping You Minister to those Confronting Illness, Death and Grief
- Master MT Profiles: MSLA Demo Project