
End of Life & Spirituality - Recommended Resources
Books
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Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life, by Ira Byock, M.D.
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The Best Care Possible: A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life, by Ira Byock, M.D.
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Leaving This Life with Hospice: Stories of Wonder and Hope, by Margaret Ledger & Ira Byock, M.D.
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Being with the Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, by Jean Halifax & Ira Byock, M.D.
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Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying, by hospice nurses Margaret Callahan & Patricia Kelly
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Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande, M.D.
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The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully, by Frank Ostaseski
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On Death and Dying, by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
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Death, the Final Stage of Growth, by Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
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Walking Each Other Home: Guidelines to be a Rock for the Dying, by Mirabai Bush
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The Art of Dying Well, by Katy Butler
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Demystifying Hospice by hospice social worker Karen Clayton
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Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind by hospice volunteer Barbara Becker
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After by Bruce Greyson, MD
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Threshold: Terminal Lucidity and the Border between Life and Death by Alexander Batthyany
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Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience by Barbara Karnes
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Gentle on My Mind: In Sickness and in Health with Glenn Campbell by Kim Campbell
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On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s by Greg O’Brien
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Somebody I used to Know by Wendy Mitchell
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Ten Thousand Joys & Ten Thousand Sorrows: a Couple’s Journal through Alzheimer’s by Olivia Hoblitzelle
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Learning to Speak Alzheimer’s by Joanne Koenig Coste
Videos & Articles
Journey Song Brings Comfort to Those at the End of Life (WMUR TV)
How Music Brings Dementia Patients Alive (The Music & Memory Project)
Why Sing Music from a Certain Era? (Slate)
How Music Affects the Brain (AARP)
The Healing Power of Music (NPR)
Music: Medicine for Healthy Aging (NIA.NIH.GOV)


