Jenkinson worked as a chaplain in hospice and palliative care for many years in Canada. This book is a brilliant and scathing critique of how reform efforts in medical care (and “the death trades”) have ended up replicating the same death-denying, extending life for more dying, etc. I love the way he connects these cultural […]
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Duplex Planet -David Greenberger
Its a zine. It’s a book. It’s an album…. I discovered these zines in my early 20s, when I was first experiencing people with dementia and the warehousing of elders, encouraged me to expand my experience and my imagination, more possibilities for connection and joy. In 1979 I took a job as activities director at […]
Advice for Future Corpses – Sallie Tisdale
The Conversation — Angelo Volandes, MD
Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness – Joanne Lynn & Janice Lynch Schuster
Barbara Karnes
BK is a death educator and nurse with a lot of useful information for caregivers of all kinds.
Frieda’s Stories
Artist, educator, and book illustrator, Miriam Klein Stahl created this book to honor and to preserve the stories of her grandmother, Frieda Molasky.
The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Katy Butler
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death – Joan Halifax
Roshi Joan Halifax is a Buddhist teacher, Zen priest, anthropologist, and pioneer in the field of end-of-life care. Being with Dying is also the name of a training program she created for clinicians working with people who are seriously ill and dying.
Death, Mourning, and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader
By Antonius C. G. M. Robben
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By Caitlin Doughty
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains
By Thomas W. Laquer
Rebellions Mourning: Collective Book of Grief
Cindy Millstein, Ed.
Knocking on Heaven’s Door
by Katy Butler
Extreme Measures
by Jessica Zitter
