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End of Life & Spirituality - Recommended Resources

Books
  • Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life, by Ira Byock, M.D.​

  • The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life, by Ira Byock, M.D.

  • Leaving This Life with Hospice: Stories of Wonder and Hope, by Margaret Ledger & Ira Byock, M.D.

  • Being with the Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, by Jean Halifax & Ira Byock, M.D.

  • Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying, by hospice nurses Margaret Callahan & Patricia Kelly

  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande, M.D.

  • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully, by Frank Ostaseski

  • On Death and Dying, by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

  • Death, the Final Stage of Growth, by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

  • Walking Each Other Home: Guidelines to be a Rock for the Dying, by Mirabai Bush

  • The Art of Dying Well, by Katy Butler

  • Demystifying Hospice by hospice social worker Karen Clayton

  • Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind by hospice volunteer Barbara Becker

  • After by Bruce Greyson, MD

  • Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border between Life and Death by Alexander Batthyany

  • Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience by Barbara Karnes

  • Gentle on My Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glenn Campbell by Kim Campbell

  • On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s by Greg O’Brien

  • Somebody I used to Know by Wendy Mitchell

  • Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: a Couple’s Journal through Alzheimer’s by Olivia Hoblitzelle

  • Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s by Joanne Koenig Coste

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