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| Bereavement - Counseling the Grieving Throughout the Lifecycle |
| | Bereavement | Provides a wealth of information about bereavement |
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| Death and Eastern Thought |
| | Death and dying | Summary of eastern philosophies about death. |
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Facing Death and Finding Hope - A Guide to the Emotional and
Spiritual Care of the Dying |
| | Spiritual Caregiving | Review of a presentation by C. Longaker |
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| Final Gifts |
| | Hospice | Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying |
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| Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity As Therapy |
| | Bereavement | Part of the Death, Value and Meaning Series |
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| Lessons From the Dying |
| | Death & Dying | An enormous amount of growth occurs when we learn from death. |
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| Living in the Face of Death, the Tibetan Tradition |
| | Tibetan Buddhism | A fabulous introduction and survey of the ways that the Tibetan
tradition has incorporated the meditation on death into every day
life. |
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| Living in the Light of Death |
| | Hospice | Buddhist awareness teachings about death and dying. |
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| Living With the End in Mind |
| | End of life preparation | A practical checklist for living life to the fullest and embracing your mortality. |
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| Never Count Crow: Love and Loss in Kennebunk, Maine |
| | nonfiction | This book is a nonfiction account of one family's experience of a sudden death in their midst by Maine author Cynthia Fraser Graves. The book has been getting great reviews, and would be a terrific one for The Hospice Website to consider. The book "warmly reconstitutes life in a small Maine town during the years 1972-2004 and is filled with a cast of delightful characters, the State of Maine being one. In the lives of this family, readers will recognize the sacredness of every interaction when seen through the lens of loss." |
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| Otherworld Journeys; Accounts of Near-death Experience in Medieval and Modern Times |
| | History of death and dying | A historical comparison of medieval and modern views of the afterlife. |
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| Profits of Death |
| | Funeral Industry | An Insider Exposes the Death Care Industries |
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| Rest Lightly - An Anthology of Latin and Greek Tomb Inscriptions |
| | Tomb inscriptions | A sometimes humorus and whimsical look at tomb inscriptions to give insight into the culture of the Greco-Roman era. |
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| Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life • Life and Death on Your Own Terms |
| | Death and Dying | Two books which speak to the multiple complexities of achieving a "good death" in today's reign of medical technology. |
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Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness
with The Dalai Lama |
| | Death and Dying | "We all sleep. And, whether we acknowledge it or not, we all
dream. And certainly every single one of us will die." |
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| Spiritual Growth and Care in the Fourth Age of Life |
| | Spiritual Care | This book addresses the spiritual needs of people in the later stages of their lives, supporting both independent active older adults as well as those who are experiencing illness and require the care of others. |
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| The American Book of the Dead |
| | Death & Dying - Metaphysics | A contemporary guidebook in the tradition of the Tibetan & Egyptian for conscious passage and liberation. |
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| The American Book of the Dead |
| | Handbook for death experience | "Here in short form is the substance of basic human esoteric teachings given in modern language." John C. Lilly, M.D. |
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| The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought |
| | Jewish theology | A survey of Jewish thought on eternal life. |
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| The Hour of Our Death |
| | Death and Dying | History of cultural traditions surrounding death. |
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| The Open Road: Walt Whitman on Death and Dying |
| | Poetry | Poems and photographs that reflect the movement and mystery of life. |
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| The Woman's Book of Dreams: Dreaming as a Spiritual Practice |
| | Dream Work | Exploring the transpersonal visions found within our dreams. |
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| Transference of Consciousness at the Time of Death |
| | Death and Dying | Tibetan Buddhist teachings and spiritual practices on death and dying. |
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| Uses of Reminiscence: New Ways of Working With Older Adults |
| | Life Review | Different experiences in working with journaling and life review with elderly. |
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| What Am I Going to Do With Myself When I Die? |
| | Funeral Industry | Examination of the Funeral Industry |
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