Resources
A collection of resources our members have found supportive, useful, or enlightening in their work. This list will be updated as new resources become available. If you have a suggestion for inclusion, please contact us.
Death Awareness
Death Doulas
End of Life Planning
Advanced Directive Forms
Funeral Planning & Services
Grief Support
Books
On Death and Dying
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Atul Gawande
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
Mind Beyond Death Ponlop Rinpoche
Opening Heaven’s Door: Investigating Stories of Life, Death, and What Comes After Patricia Pearson
Preparing to Die: Practical Advice and Spiritual Wisdon from the Tibetan Buddhist Tradition Andrew Holecek
There’s More to Dying than Death: A Buddhist Perspective Shenphen Hookham
Being With Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death Joan Halifax
Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul Steven Jenkinson
The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief Julie Tattlebaum
Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilbur Ken Wilbur
Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die Sushila Blackman
A Grief Observed C.S. Lewis
Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality Judy Lief
On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When Breath Becomes Air Paul Kalanithi and Abraham Verghese
A Year to Live: How to Live this Year as If It Were Your Last Stephen Levine
Tibetan Buddist
The Bardo Guidebook (commentary on Mirror of Mindfulness) Choky Nyima Rinpoche
Crazy Wisdom Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Good Life, Good Death: One of the Last Reincarnated Lamas to Be Educated in Tibet Shares Hard-Won Wisdom on Life, Death, and What Comes After Nawang Gehlek Rinpoche
Heart of the Buddha: Entering the Tibetan Buddhist Path Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Luminous Emptiness: Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead Francesca Fremantle
Mirror of Mindfulness Tsele Natsok Rangdrol and Erik Pema Kunsang
Peaceful Death, Joyful Rebirth: A Tibetan Buddhist Guidebook Tulku Thondrup
Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Sogyal Rinpoche and Patrick Gaffney
Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Francesca Fremantle
Transcending Madness: The Experience of the Six Bardos Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Near-Death Experiences
Consciousness Beyond Life: The Science of the Near-Death Experience Pim van Lommel
Life After Life Raymond Moody
Proof of Heaven: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey Eben Alexander