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.
FUNERAL PLANNING & SERVICES
National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA)
BOOKS & ARTICLES
"Have Your Funeral Before You Die," by Mary Elizabeth Williams
BOOKS
highly recommended
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
Tibetan Buddhist
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
Western
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
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
Lucid dreaming
Exploring Lucid Dreaming Stephen La Berge
Dream Yoga Andrew Holocek