Recommended Reading

All of these titles are available in our Hospice Library.

Care at the End of Life:

Circles of Care: How to Set Up Quality Home Care for Our Elders - Ann Cason
Coming Home: A Guide to Dying at Home With Dignity - Deborah Douda
The Complete Bedside Companion - Rodger McFarlane
Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness -
Joanne Lynn, M.D.; Joan Harrold, M.D.

Death and Dying:

Meetings At The Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed - Stephen Levine
Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying - Stephen Levine
How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter - Sherwin B. Nuland
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs & Communications of the Dying, by Maggie Callahan and Patricia Kelly

General Bereavement Books:
Safe Passage - Molly Fumia ~ This is a good beginning book.
Don't Take My Grief Away From Me - Doug Manning
Understanding Mourning, A Guide for Those Who Grieve - Glen W. Davidson
Living With An Empty Chair, A Guide Through Grief - Dr. Roberta Temes
Mourning and Mitzvah - Anne Brener
The Courage to Grieve - Judy Tatelbaum
Seven Choices:Taking the Steps to New Life After Losing Someone You Love - Elizabeth Harper Neeld, Ph.D

Grieving A Sudden, Traumatic Death:
No Time For Goodbyes:Coping With Sorrow, Anger and Injustice After a Tragic Death - Janice Harris Lord

The following 2 books have good general information and chapters on specific losses:

Beyond Grief - Carol Staudacher
How To Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies - Therese Rando

Books Especially for Widowed People:

Companion Through the Darkness - Stephanie Erickson
A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis

Additional Recommended Books:

Men and Grief - Carol Staudacher
Healing Into Life and Death - Stephen Levine
Good Grief Rituals: Tools for Healing - Elaine Childs-Gowell
How to Survive the Loss of a Parent - Lois F. Akner & Catherine Whitney
Part Of Me Died Too: Stories of Creative Survival Among Bereaved Children
And Teenagers
- Virginia Lynn Fry
When Things Fall Apart - Pema Chrodron

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