BOOKS for the dying

Books about LOSS

1. The Mourning Handbook - Helen Fitzgerald

2. Healing After Loss, Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief - Martha Whitmore Hickman

3. On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

4. I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping, and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One - Brook Noel and Pamela Blair PhD

5. A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows through Loss - Jerrly L. Sittser

6. Experiencing Grief - H. Norman Wright

7. A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis

8. The Problem With Pain - C.S. Lewis

9. After the Locusts: Restoring Ruined Dreams, Reclaiming Wasted Years - Jan Coleman

10. Aftershock- Help, Hope and Healing in the Wake of Suicide - Candy Neely Arlington and David Cox

11. The Art of Helping: What to Say and Do When Someone is Hurting  - Lauren Littauer Briggs

12. Sacred Dying - Megory Anderson

13. The Final Crossing - Scott Eberle

14. When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

15. A Year to Live - Stephen Levine

FUNERAL RESOURCES

ARTICLES

1.The Journey through Grief: The Mourner’s Six Reconciliation Needs” (Kara, by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D) http://www.kara-grief.org/HelpDocs/ReconciliationNeeds.htm

2. Recover from Grief Loss: Creative Healing Techniques http://www.recover-from-grief.com/

3. The Five Stages of Grief http://grief.com/the-five-stages-of-grief/

4. “How We Die Now: Five New Stages, Family Included” An Interview with Barbara Okun, Co-Author of Saying Goodbye http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2011/08/five-stages-dying/

5. New Ways to Consider Grief http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2042372,00.html

6. Concepts in Grief and Loss http://www.csub.edu/~rhewett/english99/Howarth.pdf