Below are online and print resources for understanding and treatment of grief after loss including the death of a loved one, as well as understanding and preparing for the process of dying and death.
Online Grief Support
Web Healing, the internet’s first interactive grief website, has served the bereaved on the net since 1995. It offers grief discussion boards where men and women can discuss issues related to grief and healing or browse recommended grief books. The site’s originator, Tom Golden, LCSW, is an internationally known psychotherapist, author, and speaker on the topic of healing from loss. http://webhealing.com/
The Compassionate Friends: Supporting Family After a Child Dies. Whether your family has had a child die (at any age, from any cause), or you are trying to help those who have gone through this life-altering experience, The Compassionate Friends exists to provide friendship, understanding, and hope to those going through the natural grieving process. Through a network of more than 625 chapters with locations in all fifty states, as well as Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, The Compassionate Friends has been supporting bereaved families after the death of a child for four decades. http://www.compassionatefriends.org
Dealing with Grief
MyGriefAssist online resources: About grief and how to help, grief fact sheets, postcards, posters, inspiration and resources.
Grief associated with Chronic or Long-Term Illness:
Caring for the Dying and Preparing for Death
Dying Matters: Raising Awareness of Dying, Death and Bereavement
The Art of Dying Well: Rethinking the Art of Accompaniment at the End of Life
Crossing the Creek: A Practical Guide To Understanding Dying Process
http://crossingthecreek.com
Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
http://www.aahpm.org
American Hospice Foundation
http://www.americanhospice.org
Americans for Better Care of the Dying
http://www.abcd-caring.org
American Society of Psychosocial & Behavioral Oncology/AIDS (ASPBOA) and The International Psycho-Oncology Society (IPOS)
http://www.ipos-aspboa.org
Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life
http://www.nap.edu/readingroom/books/approaching
Barbara Ziegler Palliative Care Education Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
http://www.mskcc.org/zpep
Center to Advance Palliative Care
http://www.capc.org
Dale Larsen’s Web Page
http://www.scu.edu/Hospice
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
http://www.dana-farber.org/pat/support/pain_default.asp
End of Life Nursing
Education Consortium (ELNEC)
http://www.aacn.nche.edu/elnec
End of Life Physician Education Resources (EPERC)
http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/
Growth House, Inc.
http://www.growthhouse.org/
Hospice Cares
http://www.Hospice-cares.com/cons.html
Hospice Foundation of America
http://www.hospicefoundation.org/
Hospice Hands Webring
http://www.growthhouse.org/rings.html
Innovations in End-of-Life Care
http://www.edc.org/lastacts/
International Hospice Institute and College
http://www.hospicecare.com/
Last Acts
http://www.lastacts.org/
Last Chapters, Stories about living with dying
Legacies
http://www.legacies.ca
Naropa University School of Extended Studies
Contemplative End-of-Life Care: A Certificate Program for Healthcare Professionals
NPR
The End of Life
Exploring Death in America
http://www.npr.org/
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
http://www.nhpco.org/
National Prison Hospice Association
http://www.npha.org
On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
Thirteen/WNET New York
http://www.pbs.org/onourownterms
Partnership for Caring
http://www.partnershipforcaring.org
Project on Death in America
Soros Foundation
http://www.soros.org/death.html
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
http://www.promotingexcellence.org
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
http://www.rwjf.org
Spiritual Care Program
http://www.spcare.org
The National Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care
http://www.coordinatedcare.net
Toolkit of Instruments to Measure End of Life Care
http://www.toolkit.htm
Yahoo’s Hospice Links
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Death/Hospice/
Books on Dying, Death and Grief
Tuesdays with Morrie
Albom, Mitch
Doubleday, New York, 1997
Hospice Care for Children
Armstrong -Dailey, Ann and Zarbock, Sarah, eds.
Oxford University Press: Second Edition, New York, 2001
When Life Becomes Precious: A Guide for Loved Ones and Friends of Cancer Patients
Babcock, Elise NeeDell
Bantam Books, New York, 1997
Medical Care of the Soul: A Practical and Healing Guide to End-Of-Life Issues for Families, Patients, and Health Care Providers
Bartlow, Bruce G.
Johnson Books, Boulder, 2000
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Bauby, Jean-Dominique
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1997
The Least of These My Brethren: A Doctor’s Story of Hope and Miracles on an Inner City AIDS Ward
Baxter, D.J.
Crown, New York, 1997
The Denial of Death
Becker, Ernest
The Free Press, New York, 1973
The Gift of Peace: Personal Reflections
Bernardin, Joseph Cardinal
Loyola Press, Chicago, 1997
The Hospice Handbook: A Complete Guide
Berresford, Larry
Little Brown & Company, 1993
Facing Death: Images, Insights and Interventions: A Handbook for Educators, Healthcare Professionals, and Counselors
Bertman, Sandra L.
Taylor & Francis, 1991
Grief and the Healing Arts
Bertman, Sandra L.
Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., Amityville, New York, 1999
In the Shadow of Illness: Parents and Siblings of the Chronically Ill Child
Bluebond-Langner, Myra
Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1996
Mourning & Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner’s Path Through Grief to Healing
Brener, Anne
Jewish Lights Publishing, Woodstock, 1993
Signs of Life: A Memoir of Dying and Discovery
Brookes, T.
Random House, New York,1997
The Gifts of the Body
Brown, Rebecca
HarperCollins, New York, 1994
Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life
Byock, Ira
Putnam/Riverhead, 1997
The Troubled Dream of Life: In Search of a Peaceful Death
Callahan, Daniel
Touchstone/Simon & Shuster, New York, 1993
The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine
Cassell, E.J.
Oxford University Press, New York,1991
Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan
Colby, William F.
Hay House, 2002
Stay Close and Do Nothing: A Spiritual and Practical Guide to Caring for the Dying at Home
Collett, Merrill
Andrews McMeel, Kansas City, 1997
Grieving: A Love Story
Coughlin, Ruth
Random House, New York, 1993
Managing Death in the Intensive Care Unit: The Transition from Cure to Comfort
Curtis, Randall J. and Rubenfeld, Gordon D.
Oxford University Press, 2001
Fading Away: The Experience of Transition in Families With Terminal Illness
Davies, Betty et al.
Baywood Publishing, Amityville, 1995
Caring in Remembered Ways: The Fruit of Seeing Deeply
Davis, Maggie Steincrohm
Heartsong Books, 1999
Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us How to Live
De Hennezel, Marie
Knopf, New York, 1997
Living With Life-Threatening Illness : A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers
Doka, Kenneth
Lexington Books, 1993
Living With Grief When Illness is Prolonged
Doka, Kenneth J. and Davidson, J., eds.
Taylor & Francis, Washington DC, 1997
The Oxford Book of Death
Enright, D.J.
Oxford University Press, 1993 Paperback
Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
Doyle, Derek; Hanks, Geoffrey W.C. and MacDonald, Neil (Editors)
Oxford University Press, Second Edition 1998
Hard Choices for Loving People: CPR, Artificial Feeding, Comfort Measures Only and the Elderly Patient
Dunn, Hank
A&A Publishers, 1999 Paperback
Liberating Losses: When Death Brings Relief
Elison, Jennifer and McGonigle, Chris
Perseus Books, Cambridge, MA, 2003
Mortal Acts: Eighteen Empowering Rituals for Confronting Death
Feinstein, David
HarperCollins, 1993 Paperback
Rituals for Living & Dying Rituals for Living and Dying : From Life’s Wounds to Spiritual Awakening
Feinstein, David and Mayo, Peg Elliot
Harper San Francisco, 1990
The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics
Frank, Arthur W.
University of Chicago Press, 1995
Man’s Search for Meaning
Frankl, V.E.
Rev. ed. Washington Square, New York, 1984 Paperback
Man’s Search for Meaning
Frankl, V.E.
Rev. ed. Washington Square, New York, 1984
You Can Help Someone Who’s Grieving
Frigo, Victoria; Fisher, Diane and Cook, Mary Lou
Penguin Books, 1996
Seduced by Death: Doctors, Patients and the Dutch Cure
Hendin, Herbert
WW Norton & Co. Inc., New York, 1997
All Kinds of Love: Experiencing Hospice
Jaffe, Carolyn andEhrlich, Carol H.
Baywood Publishing. Amityville, 1997
R.I.P. The Complete Book of Death and Dying
Jones, C.
HarperCollins, New York, 1997
A Different Kind of Health
Justice, Blair
Peak Press, 1998
Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul Pain, Death and Healing
Kearney, Michael
Marino Books, Dublin, 1996
Dancing With Mister D: Notes on Life and Death
Keizer, Bert
Doubleday, New York, 1997
Companion to Grief: Finding Consolation When Someone You Love has Died
Kelley, Patricia
Simon & Shuster, New York, 1997
The Rights of the Dying: A Companion for Life’s Final Moments
Kessler, David
Harper Collins, 1997
The Courage to Laugh: Humor, Hope and Healing in the Face of Death and Dying
Klein, Allen
Tarcher/Putnam, 1998
Love is Stronger Than Death
Kreeft, P.
St. Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 1979
On Death and Dying
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
Collier Books, 1997 Paperback
On Death and Dying
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
Scribner 1997
To Live Until We Say Goodbye
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth
Fireside/Simon & Shuster, New York, 1978
Dying with Dignity: A Plea for Personal Responsibility
Kung, H., and Jens, W.
Continuum, New York, 1995
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Kushner, H.S.
Avon, New York, 1981
The Helper’s Journey: Working with People Facing Grief, Loss, and Life-Threatening Illness
Larson, Dale G.
Research Press, Champaign, IL, 1993
The Hospice Choice: In pursuit of a Peaceful Death
Lattanzi-Licht, Marcia, Mahoney, John J. and Miller, Galen W.
Fireside, Simon & Schuster, NY, 1998
Adding Value to Long-Term Care: An Administrator’s Guide to Improving Patient Experience, Staff Performance and Financial Health
Lazer, Dianne and Schwartz-Cassell, Tobi
Jossey-Bass, 2000
Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying
Levine, Stephen
Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1982
A Grief Observed
Lewis, C.S.
Bantam Books, New York, 1961
Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide for the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying
Longaker, Christine
Doubleday, 1998
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Lynch, Thomas
WW Norton & Co, New York, 1997
By No Means:
The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water
Lynn, Joanne (Editor)
Indiana University Press, 1990
Handbook for Mortals:
Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness
Lynn, Joanne, and Harrold, Joan
Oxford University Press, 1999
Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook
Lynn, Joanne; Lynch Schuster, Janice; Kabcenell, Andrea
Oxford University Press, 2000
Elder Rage: or Take My Father… Please!
Marcell, Jacqueline
Impressive Press, Second Edition, 2001
Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying
Malkin, Gary Remal and Stillwater, Michael
Companion Arts, 2000
An Ocean of Time: Alzheimer’s Tales of Hope and Forgetting
Mathiasen, P.
Scribner, New York, 1997
DYING: A Book of Comfort
McNees, P., Ed
Warner Books, 1998
Readings in Thanatology
Morgan, John D., Ed.
Baywood Publishing, Amityville, New York, 1997
The Singing Bird Will Come: An AIDS Journal
Noonan, John R.
Canticle Press, Latham, New York, 1997
Choices at the End of Life: Finding Out What Your Parents Want Before It’s Too Late
Norlander, Linda and McSteen, Kerstin
Fairview Press, 2001
How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter
Nuland, S.B.
Knopf, New York, 1994
What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living
Oliver, Reverend Samuel Lee
The Haworth Pastoral Press, New York, 1998
Death: The Trip of a Lifetime
Palmer, Greg
Harper, San Francisco, 1993
Raising Lazarus
Pensack, Robert and Williams, Dwight
G.P. Putnam & Sons, 1994
A Midwife Through the Dying Process: Stories of Healing and Hard Choice at the End of Life
Quill, T.E.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997
I’m Here to Help: A Guide for Caregivers, Hospice Workers, and Volunteers
Ray, M. Catherine
Bantam Books, New York, 1997
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal
Remen, Rachel N.
Riverhead/Putnam, New York, 1996
My Grandfathers Blessings : Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
Remen, Rachel N.
Riverhead/Putnam, New York, 2001
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
Rinpoche, Sogyal
Harper, San Francisco, 1992
Saying Goodbye to Daniel: When Death is the Best Choice
Rothman, J.C.
Continuum, New York, 1995
The Death of a Christian: The Order of Christian Funerals
Rutherford, R. and Barr, T.
The Liturgical Press, Collegeville, 1990
Dying At Home: A Family Guide for Caregiving
Sankar, Andrea
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1991
Living Posthumously: Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers
Schmookler, A. B.
Henry Holt, New York, 1997
Surving the Fall: The Personal Story of an AIDS Doctor
Selwyn, Peter A.
Yale University Press, 1998
Living Our Dying: A Way to the Sacred in Everyday Life
Sharp, J.
Hyperion, New York, 1996
Hospice and Palliative Care: Concepts and Practice
Sheehan, Denice and Forman, Walter B.
Jones and Bartlett Series in Oncology, 1996
Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life
Simmons, Philip E.
Xlibris, 2001
The Grace in Dying: How we are Transformed Spiritually as we Die
Singh, Kathleen Dowling
Harper, San Francisco, 1998
Caregiving: Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul
Smith, Douglas
Macmillan, New York, 1997
Forced Exit: the Slippery Slope from Assisted Suicide to Legalized Murder
Smith, Wesley J.
Times Books/Random House, New York, 1997
Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
Sontag, Susan
Anchor/Doubleday, New York, 1977
A Few Months to Live
Staton, Jana; Shuy, Roger; and Byock, Ira
Georgetown University Press, Baltimore, 2001
A Time to Grieve: Meditations for Healing After the Death of a Loved One
Staudacher, Carol
Harper, San Francisco, 1994
The Presence of the Dead on the Spiritual Path
Steiner, Rudolf
Anthroposophic Press, New York, 1990
The Healing Art of Storytelling
Stone, Richard
Hyperion, New York, 1997
Life Worth Living: How Someone You Love Can Still Enjoy Life in a Nursing Home: The Eden Alternative in Action
Thomas, W. H.
Acton VanderWyk & Burnham, 1996
My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story
Verghese, Abraham
Vintage Books/Random House, New York, 1995
The Open Road: Walt Whitman on Death & Dying
Vest, Joe, ed.
Four Corners Editions, Mesa, 1996
The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
Webb, Marilyn
Bantam Books, 1997
Physician-Assisted Suicide
Weir, Robert F. Ed.
Indiana University Press, 1997
Affirming the Darkness: An Extended Conversation About Living With Prostate Cancer
Wheeler, Chuck and Martha
Memoirs Unlimited, Beverly, MA, 1996
It’s All Good: Emails from a Dying Best Friend
Widran, Jonathan
Xlibris, 2003
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber
Wilber, Ken
Shambhala, Boston, 1991
Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Williams, Terry Tempest
Vintage Books, New York, 1991
The Healing Power of Creative Mourning
Yager, Jan
Hannacroix Creek Books, April 2000
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