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Books, Articles, Programs, and Websites on Bereavement, Death and Dying

Books

The following titles are available in The Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, located between West Complex and University Hospital. Clicking the titles will also direct you to pages with book purchasing and publication information:

I Don't Know What to Say: How to Help and Support Someone Who is Dying. Robert Buckman.
A Good Death: Taking More Control at the End of Your Life. T. Patrick Hill.
A Graceful Passage: Notes on the Freedom to Live or Die. Arnold R. Beisser.
A Journey Through Grief. AllaRenee Bozarth.
After the Death of a Child: Living with Loss Through the Years. Ann K. Finkbeiner.
As Someone Dies: A Handbook for the Living. Elizabeth A. Johnson.
At Home with Dying: A Zen Hospice Approach. Merrill Collett.
Being a Widow. Lynn Caine.
But What if She Wants to Die? A Husband's Diary. George E. Delury.
Children Die, Too. Joy Johnson, Dr. S.M. Johnson.
Choices: For People Who Have a Terminal Illness, Their Families and Their Caregivers. Harry van Bommel.
Companion Through the Darkness: Inner Dialogues on Grief. Stephanie Ericsson.
Dancing with Mister D: Notes on Life and Death. Bert Keizer.
Dealing Creatively with Death: A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial. Ernest Morgan.
Denial of the Soul: Spiritual and Medical Perspectives on Euthanasia and Mortality. M. Scott Peck.
Dying at Home: A Family Guide for Caregiving. Andrea Sankar.
Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life. Ira Byock.
Dying: A Guide for Helping and Coping. Martin Shephard, M.D.
Embraced by the Light. Betty J. Eadie.
Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying. Christine Longaker.
Facing Death. Howard M. Spiro.
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying. Maggie Callanan.
Final Passages. Judith Ahronheim.
Good Grief: A Constructive Approach to the Problem of Loss. Granger Westberg.
Grieving: How to Go on Living When Someone You Loves Dies. Therese A. Rando.
Helping Your Child Cope with Depression and Suicidal Thoughts. Tonia K. Shamoo.
How Do We Tell the Children? A Step-by-Step Guide for Helping Children Cope when Someone Dies. Dan Schaefer.
How to Go on Living After the Death of a Baby. Larry Peppers, Ph.D.
How to Survive the Loss of a Child: Filling the Emptiness and Rebuilding Your Life. Catherine M. Sanders.
How We Die. Sherwin B. Nuland.
How We Grieve: Relearning the World. Thomas A. Attig.
I Can't Stop Crying: It's So Hard When Someone You Loves Dies. John D. Martin.
I'm Grieving As Fast As I Can: How Young Widows and Widowers Can Cope and Heal. Linda Sones Feinberg.
Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death. Anatole Broyard.
Life After Loss: The Lessons On Grief. Vamik D. Volkan.
Living with Grief After Sudden Loss: Suicide, Homicide, Accident, Heart Attack, Stroke. Kenneth Doka.
Matters of Life and Death: Finding the Words to Say Goodbye. Carol Wogrin.
Meeting at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed. Stephen Levine.
On Death and Dying. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
Ready to Live, Prepared to Die: A Provacative Guide to the Rest of Your Life. Amy Harwell.
Recovering from the Loss of a Child. Katherine Fair Donnelly.
Suicide Across the Life Span: Premature Exits. Judith M. Stillion.
Suicide: The Forever Decisions...for Those Thinking About Suicide, and For Those Who Know, Love, or Counsel Them. Paul G. Quinnett.
Talking About Death Won't Kill You. Virginia Morris.
Tell Me, Papa. Joy Johnson, Marv Johnson.
The Art of Condolence: What to Write, What to Say, What to Do at a Time of Loss. Leonard M. Zunin.
The Art of Dying: How to Leave this World with Dignity and Grace, at Peace with Yourself and Your Loved Ones. Patricia Weenolsen.
The Courage to Grieve. Judy Tatelbaum.
The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages. Leo Buscaglia.
The Handbook of Hospice Care. Robert W. Buckingham.
The Hospice Movement: A Better Way of Caring for the Dying. Sandol Stoddard.
The Hour of Our Death. Philippe Aries.
The Orphaned Adult: Understanding and Coping with Grief and Change After the Death of Our Parents. Alexander Levy.
The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
To Live Until We Say Good-Bye. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross.
What Helped Me When My Loved One Died. Earl A. Grollman.
When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Harold S. Kushner.
When Your Spouse Dies. Cathleen L. Curry.
Where Do I Go From Here? Ken Medema, Janice Winchester Nadeau, Ph.D.
Why Me? Coping With Grief, Loss and Change. Pesach Krauss.
Why Mine? Joy and Marv Johnson, Billy Williams.
Woman's Book of Grieving. Nessa Rapoport.

Articles on Coping with the Holidays

Articles and Websites on Children and Grief

Several Articles on Sibling Grief - from The Forum, Association for Death Education and Counseling (pdf)
Includes: Mode of Death and the Effects of Sibling Grief;Sibling Grief Through Childhood; Understanding Adolescent Sibling Bereavement; Losing a Sibling in Adulthood; Adult Sibling Loss: An Unexpected Journey; Using Nature-Based Rituals as an Intervention for Adult Surviving Siblings.
The Healing Garden - a child grief webpage with interactive activities (plant seeds, watch them bloom) to help children deal with their grief and loss through creative expression and companion interaction.
Adolescents' Use of the Internet as a Modality of Grief Support - from The Forum, Association for Death Education and Counseling (pdf)
Living With Loss: Bereaved swim against tide of grief (this general article on bereavement includes references to children's grief. From the Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America article series.)

On Grandparents' Grief

Several Articles on Grandparents' Grief - from The Forum, Association for Death Education and Counseling (pdf)
Includes: Grandparents' Grief - Who Is Listening?; Grandparents' Grief - "Nipped in the Bud"; The Death of a Grandchild: A Complex Grief; My Nicky; For Bereaved Grandparents

On Violent Sudden Death

Unexpected Ends: Deaths that are violent or sudden leave a trail of 'secondary victims' (from the Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America article series.)

On Widowhood

Who am I Now? Bereaved partners face the unknown (from the Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America article series.)

The Internet and Grief Healing

Various Articles on Use of the Internet to Facilitate Grief Support - from The Forum, Association for Death Education and counseling (pdf)
Includes: The Functions of Web Memorials in Bereavement; Adolescents' Use of the Internet as a Modality for Grief Support; Coping with Loss in Chinese and North American "Ccyberspace": E-Temples and Virtual Cemetaries; Healing and the Internet; War in the 21st Century: The Internet as a Coping Device; War in the 21st Century: The Comfort of Email.

Programs on Death and Dying

National Public Radio--The End of Life: Exploring Death in America
- Text and Audio transcripts of All Things Considered and Morning Edition stories on End-of-Life Issues.
- Resources - for people with life-threatening diseases and their families and caregivers
- Bibliography - books and journal articles dealing with terminal illness, symptom management, bereavement, grief, and medical and social policy relating to the care of the terminally ill
- Readings - selections from novels and short stories, poems, religious rituals, clinical research, scripts for plays and television & radio programs, and private accounts
Finding Our Way - Living With Dying in America
This web course offers Americans an opportunity to learn from 15 articles and inspiring stories. The "Finding Our Way" authors have contributed discussion questions, additional resources, and insights that are important components of the course. Discussion questions can be used for small group discussion or for individual reflection, and the course can be taken at any time and at any pace. Upon successful completion, an electronic certificate of completion will be issued. No continuing education units are available for this learning experience.

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