RESOURCE LIST

Books: Personal Reflection

Albom, Mitch. Tuesdays With Morrie. Doubleday, 1997.

Kabat-Zinn, Jon, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness. Dell Publishing, 1990.

Kane, Jeff. Healing Companion. Harper Collins, 2001.

Levine, Stephen, Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and
Conscious Dying. Doubleday Dell, 1982.

Healing Into Life and Death. Doubleday Dell. 1987.

A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as if it Were Your Last.
Bell Tower, 1997.

Lief, Judith. Making Friends with Death. Shambala, 2001.

Nearing, Helen, Loving and Leaving the Good Life, Chelsea Green, 1993.

Nuland, Sherwin B. How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter.
Vintage, 1995.

Ram Dass, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying. Riverhead
Books, 2000.

Remen, Rachel Naomi. Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal.
Riverhead, 2000

Ring, Kenneth. Lessons from the Light: What We Can Learn From the
Near-death Experience. Moment Point Press, 1998.

Rosenberg, Larry and David Guy, Living in the Light of Death: On the Art
of Being Truly Alive. Shambhala, 2000.

Samples, Pat. Self-Care for Caregivers: A Twelve-Step Approach. Hazelden,
1991.

Simmons, Philip. Learning to Fall: The Blessings of an Imperfect Life.
Bantam, 2002

Smith, Rodney. Lessons from the Dying. Wisdom Press, 1998

Sogyal Rinpoche. The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Harper-Collins,
1992.

Stone, Susan Carol. At the Eleventh Hour: Caring for My Dying Mother.
Present Perfect Books, 2001.

Thich Nhat Hanh. No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life.
Riverhead Books, 2002.

Wilber, Ken. Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death
of Treya Killam Wilber. Shambala, 1991.

Books: Caregiving

Byock, Ira, M.D. Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life.
Riverhead, 1997.

Callahan, Maggie and Patricia Kelley. Final Gifts: Understanding the
Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying. Poseidon, 1992.

Carlson, Lisa. Caring for the Dead. Upper Access Books, 1998.
See web site: www.funerals.org

Cason, Ann. Circles of Care: How to Set Up Quality Home Care for Our
Elders. Shambhala, 2001.

Collett, Merrill. At Home with Dying: A Zen Hospice Approach.
Shambhala, 1999.

Longaker, Christine. Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to
theEmotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying. Doubleday, 1997.

McPhelimy, Lynn. In the Checklist of Life: A Working Book to Help You
Live and Leave This Life. AAIP Publishing, 1997.

Some Web Sites (There are many resource links on these sites.)

Caring Connections: For Advance Directives: advance
care planning

Elder Care Online

Funeral Consumers Alliance: For funeral planning kit,
Before I Go, click on book store

Healthy Caregiver:

Spiritual Care Program: Affiliated with Rigpa: Sogyal
Rinpoche and Christine Longaker

Aging With Dignity: For Living Will: Five Wishes

CD Sets/Tapes

Being a Compassionate Companion. Frank Ostaseski. Zen Hospice
Project.

Being With Dying (1997) by Joan Halifax. Sounds True.

In the Heart Lies the Deathless. Steven Levine. Sounds True.

The Grief Process: Meditations for Healing. Stephen and Ondrea Levine.
Sounds True.

Tibetan Wisdom for Living and Dying. Sogyal Rinpoche. Sounds True.

Also see web site: www.soundstrue.com

Compiled by Spiritual Friends (KM) group
Insight Meditation Community of Washington (www.imcw.org)
Facilitated by Jacqueline Erskine