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Resources:
Suggested Reading: Adapted from the
Life's End Institute and from Community Hospice grief and bereavement experts
There are many fine resources that deal with end-of-life issues. The following books are by no means exhaustive and the opinions of the authors do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Community Hospice of Northeast Florida.
Advance Care Planning
- 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
- 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 Peter Clarke and Susan Evans
- What to Eat When You Don't Feel Like Eating by James Haller
Death and Dying
General
- A Few Months to Live: Different Paths to Life's End by Jana Staton, Roger Shuy and Ira Byock
- A Good Death: Challenges, Choices and Care Options 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
- On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler Ross, M.D.
- 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, M.D.
- When You Know You're Dying: 12 Thoughts to Guide You Through the Days Ahead by James E. Miller
Memoirs
- 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, M.D.
Condition Specific
Aids and HIV
- Promise of Rest by Reynolds Price
- Surviving the Fall: The Personal Journey of an AIDS Doctor by Peter A. Selwyn, M.D.
Alzheimer's Disease
- Alzheimer's Disease-Frequently Asked Questions: Making Sense of the Journey by Frena Gray-Davidson
Cancer
- One True Thing by Anna Quindlen
- What to Eat When You Don't Feel Like Eating by James Haller
Funerals and Memorials
- 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
Pain
- Culture of Pain by David B. Morris
Palliative Care
- 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, M.D.
Suicide
- After Suicide by John H. Hewett
- After Suicide: A Ray of Hope by Eleanora "Betsy" Ross
- After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief by Bob Baugher, Ph.D. and Jack Jordon, Ph.D.
- Andrew, You Died Too Soon by Corinne Chilstrom
- Breaking the Silence by Mariette Hartley
- Dead Reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief by David C. Treadway, Ph.D.
- Don't Take My Grief Away From Me by Doug Manning
- Forgive & Forget: Healing the Hurts We Don't Deserve by Lewis B. Smedes
- Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers & Hope by Albert Y. Hsu
- Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One by Ann Smolin and John Guinan
- Living Through Personal Crisis by Ann Kaiser Sterns
- Mourning After Suicide by Lois Bloom
- My Son, My Son: A Guide to Healing After a Suicide in the Family by Iris Bolton
- Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide by Kay Redfield Jamison
- No Time to Say Goodbye, Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One by Carla Fine
- Stronger Than Death: When Suicide Touches Your Life by Sue Chance
- The Suicide of My Son by Trudy Carlson
- Suicide: Prevention, Intervention, Postvention by Earl Grollman
- Suicide Survivors: A Guide for Those Left Behind by Adina Wrobleski
- Survivors of Suicide by Rita Robinson
- Why Suicide? by Eric Marcus
Grief and Bereavement
- After the Darkest Hour, The Sun Will Shine Again: A Parent's Guide to Coping with the Loss of a Child by Elizabeth Mehren
- After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss Through the Years by Ann K. Finkbeiner
- The Bereaved Parent by Harriett Sarnoff Schiff
- Bereavement: It's Psychological Aspects by Schoenberg, Gerber, Wiener, Kutscher, Perety and Carr, Eds.
- Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief by Dennis Klass, Phyllis Silverman & Steven Nickman
- The Courage to Grieve by Judy Tatelbaum
- 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 Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss by Gerald. L. Sittser
- A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
- Grief Quest: Reflections For Men Coping With Loss by Robert J. Miller
- The Grief Recovery Handbook by James & Friedman
- 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 D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
- Help, Comfort, and Hope After Losing Your Baby in Pregnancy or the First Year by Hannah Lothrop
- Helping Adults with Mental Retardation Grieve a Death Loss by Charlene Luchterhand and Nancy Murphy
- How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese A. Rando
- How to Survive the Loss of a Child: Filling the Emptiness and Rebuilding Your Life by Catherine Sander, Ph.D.
- How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Colgrove, Bloomfield, McWilliams
- I Wasn't Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping & Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One by Brook Noel and Pamela Blair
- I'm Grieving As Fast As I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal by Linda Feinberg
- Journey Through Grief by Alla Renee Bogarth, Ph.D.
- Losing Your Parents, Finding Yourself by Victoria Secunda
- 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
- Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman
- Mourning and Mitzvah: A Guided Journal for Walking the Mourner's Path Through Grief to Healing by Anne Brener
- No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving the Suicide of a Loved One by Carla Fine
- Roses in December by Marilyn Willett Heavilin
- Seven Choices by Elizabeth Harper Neeld, Ph.D.
- Spinning Gold Out of Straw: How Stories Heal by Diane Rooks
- Swimmers in the Secret Sea by William Kotzwinkle
- Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss by Pat Schweibert and C. DeKlyen
- Transcending Loss by Ashely Davis Prend
- Understanding, Coping and Growing Through Grief by Collection of Authors, published by Hope for Bereaved
- Understanding Grief by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
- What Will We Do? Preparing a School Community to Cope With Crisis by Robert G. Stevenson (editor)
- Widow to Widow: Thoughtful, Practical Ideas for Rebuilding Your Life by Genevieve Ginsberg
- 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
- The Worst Loss: How Families Heal From the Death of a Child by Barbara Rosof
Socio-Cultural Issues
Arts and the End of Life
- 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
Children and Death
- 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)
- The Fall of Greedie the Leaf by Leo Buscaglia
- Forever in My Heart by Jennifer Levine
- Grief At School-A Manual for School Personnel by Helen Fitzgerald
- Healing the Grieving Child's Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends, and Caregivers by Alan Wolfelt
- Helping Children Cope with Death by Dougy Center
- Helping Children Cope with Grief by Alan Wolfelt
- Helping Teens Cope with Death by Dougy Center
- 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
- Water Bugs and Dragonflies by Doris Stickney
- When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
Ethics
- Social Suffering by Arthur Kleinman, Veena Das and Margaret Lock (editors)
Life Stories
- The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self by Dan McAdams
Spiritual Well-Being
- Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness by Joanne Lynn, M.D. and Joan Harrold, M.D.
- Healer's Calling-A Spirituality for Physicians and Other Health Care Professionals by Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., M.D.
- 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)
- Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality by Judith I. Lief
- Many Roads, One Journey: Moving Beyond the Twelve Steps by Charlotte Davis Kail, Ph.D.
- 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, Ph.D.
- Spiritual Care of Dying and Bereaved People by Penelope Wilcock
- The Tao of Dying: A Guide for Caring by Doug Smith
- Vital Connections in Long-Term Care, Spiritual Resources for Staff and Residents by Julie Barton, Marita Grudzen and Ron Zielske
- Wouldn't Take Nothing For My Journey Now by Maya Angelou
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