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Books

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• By Your Side, Caring for the Dying at Home, Barbara Karnes

• Bold Spirit Caring for the Dying, Janet Booth * Gale Gagnier * Terrence Ho *Lesley James * Ashlee Jansen * Shannon Koppenhoefer * Janice Lombardo * Tamelynda Lux * Olga Nikolajev *Siby Varghese * Chrystal Waban

• The Art of Dying Well: A practical guide to a good end of life, Katy Butler

• Advice for Future Corpses and Those Who Love Them, Sallie Tisdale

• Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care, Koshin Paley Ellison and Matt Weingast

• Caring for the Dying, Henry Fersko-Weiss

• A Beginner's Guide to the End, BJ Miller MD and Shoshana Berger

• The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner, Alan Wolfelt

• Grieving Is Loving: Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

• Bearing the Unbearable, Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

• The Modern Loss Handbook: An Interactive Guide to Moving Through Grief and Building Resilience, Rebecca Soffer

• What's Your Grief?: Lists to Help You Through Any Loss, Haley and Williams

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Francis Weller

• A Grief Observed, C. S. Lewis

• A Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion

• What to Do When I am Gone: A Mother’s Wisdom to Her Daughter, Suzy Hopkins.

• Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: A Compassionate, Widely-Available Option for Hastening Death by Timothy E. Quill (Editor), Paul T. Menzel (Editor), Thaddeus Pope

• The VSED Handbook, Kate Christie

• The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America, by Anita Hannig

• In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Amy Bloom

• Being Mortal, Atul Gawande

• The Three Regrets, Tenzin Kiyosaki

• When Breath Becomes Air, Paul Kalinithi

• Die Wise, Stephen Jenkinson

• Holding Space on Loving, Dying, and Letting Go, by Amy Wright Glenn

• Re-Imagining the End of Life: Self-Development & Reflective Practices for Nurse Coaches, Jan Booth

• The Five Invitations, Frank Ostaseski

• The Grace in Dying, Kathleen Dowling-Singh

• A Year to Live, Stephen and Ondrea Levine

• Who Dies? Stephen and Ondrea Levine

• Dying Well, Ira Byock

• How to Enjoy Death: Preparing to Meet Life’s Final Challenge without Fear, Lama Zopa Rinpoche

• Walking Each Other Home, Ram Dass

• The Conversation, Volandes, MD

• At Home With Dying, Collett

• Extreme Measures, Jessica Zitter, MD

• The Lost Art of Dying, L.S. Dugdale

• Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom

• Marrow, Elizabeth Lesser

• Graceful Exit, Ferber, MD

• The Tibetan Book of the Dead

• Dancing with Elephants, Jarem Sawatsky

• From Here to Eternity, Caitlin Doughty

• The Good Funeral, Long and Lynch

• Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality, by Judith L. Lief

• No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life, by Thich Nhat Hanh (Riverhead)

• Living in the Light of Death: On the Art of Being Truly Alive, by Larry Rosenberg

• Leaning Into Sharp Points: Practical Guidance and Nurturing Support for Caregivers, by Stan Goldberg

• Staring at the sun: Overcoming the terror of death, by Irving Yalom

• Being with Dying: Cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death, by Joan Halifax

• The End of Fear: A spiritual path for realists, by Richard Schaub

• Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through each of the 4 main belief systems, by Kelvin Chin

• Share the Care, by Capossela and Warnock

• At the Time of Death: Symbols & Rituals for Caregivers and Chaplains, by David Bieniek

• You’ve Reached Sam, by Dustin Thao - a Young Adult Novel

• Dear Death, by Diane Button

• With the End in Mind, by Kathryn Mannix

• Grief is for People, by Sloane Crosley

• Power in the Helping Professions by Gugglebruhl-Craig

• Companioning the Bereaved by Dr. Wolfet

• Annie Freeman’s Fabulous Traveling Funeral by Kris Radish  (fiction)

• When Breath Becomes Air - by Paul Kalinithi (Memoire)

• Present Through the End - by Kirsten DeLeo  (Caring Companion’s Guide

• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - by Sogyal Rinpoche (updated edition)

• Intimate Death: How the Dying Teaches how to Live - by Marie DeHennevel 

• Our Greatest Gifts: A Meditation on Dying and Caring - by Henri Nouwen

• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

• Here After by Amy Lin

• The Fault of Our Stars by John Green (Fiction)

• The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch

• The End of Your Life Book Club - By Will Schwalbe

• The Year of Magical Thinking by Jill Didion

• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs by Caitlin Doughty

• The Five People you Meet in Heaven - by Mitch Albom

• Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan

• Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast

• The Bright Hour: A Memoir of Living and Dying - by Nina Riggs (Memoir)

• Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler

• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

• It’s OK that You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine

• Deathing: An Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments of Life by Anya Foos-Graber

• In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying by Eve Joseph

• Gone from my Sight by Barbara Karnes

• On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

• On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

• Living in the Face of Death: The Tibetan Tradition by Glenn Mullin

• The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America by Ann Neuman

• How We Die: Reflections On LIfe’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland

• Advice for Future Corpses and Those Who Love Them: A Practical Perspective on 

• Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale

• Death: An Inside Story: A Book for All Those Who Shall Die by Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev

• In my Time of Dying: How I Came Face-to-Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger (a memoir)