Dear Medical Advocate; If you’re reading this because I can’t make my own medical decisions due to dementia, please understand I don’t wish to prolong my living or dying, even if I seem relatively happy and content. As a human being who currently has the moral, legal, and intellectual capacity to make my own decisions, […]
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At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life – Samuael Harrington, MD
Changing Landscapes: exploring the growth of ethical, compassionate, and environmentally sustainable green funeral service – Lee Webster (ed.)
Lee Webster compiled and edited this collection which was published in 2016 and is an essential collection of interdisciplinary writings from important voices in the movements for sustainable funeral practices.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief – Francis Weller
Wild Comfort: The Solace of Nature – Kathleen Dean Moore
The Five Invitations – Frank Ostaseski
Frank Ostaseski, co-founder of the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco wrote this beautiful book about death and love. Ostaseski created the Metta Institute where he teaches on spirituality in dying. Five Precepts by Frank Ostaseski Founder, Metta Institute A while back, I developed five precepts as companions on the journey of accompanying the dying. […]
Compassionate Cities – Allan Kellehear
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death – Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: and other lessons from the crematory – Caitlin Doughty
Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial – Mark Harris
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death – Josh Slocum and Lisa Carlson.
Rebellious Mourning: Collective Book of Grief – Cindy Millstein, Ed.
fantastic collection of writing about grief in relation to social justice and movements. Millstein’s introduction calls for public spaces for collective mourning as essential as potable water and public libraries.
