Resources

This is a random collection of books , films, websites, and other resources on a wide variety of end-of-life topics. Have a suggestion for something to include? Please email me— I'm adding more all the time!

Recommended Books:

End of Life

At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life - Samuel Harrington MD
Awake at the Bedside - Koshin Paley Ellison
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
Bridging the Gap - Kimberly C. Paul
Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul - Stephen Jenkinson
Dying Well - Dr. Ira Byock
Extreme Measures - Jessica Zitter
Final Exam - Pauline Chen
Final Gifts - Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelly
Final Journeys - Maggie Callanan
How We Die - Sherwin B. Nuland
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour - Sunita Puri
The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America - Ann Neumann
The Needs of the Dying - David Kessler
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade - Thomas Lynch
With the End In Mind - Kathryn Mannix

Memoir

A Different Ending - Judith Landau
Gratitude - Oliver Sacks
How Shall I Tell the Dog? - Miles Kington
Knocking on Heaven's Door - Katy Butler
Mortality - Christopher Hitchens
My Father's Wake - Kevin Toolis
No Happy Endings - Nora McInerny
The Bright Hour - Nina Riggs
The Hot Young Widows Club - Nora McInerny
The Unwinding of the Miracle - Julie Yip-Williams
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

Philosophical/Spiritual

A Year to Live - Stephen Levine
Being with Dying - Joan Halifax and Ira Byock
Carpooling with Death - Margaret Meloni
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief - David Kessler
How To Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life - Seneca (ed. James S. Romm)
On Death and Dying - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
On Living - Kerry Egan
The 5 Invitations - Frank Ostaseski
The December Project - Sara Davidson
The Grace in Dying - Kathleen Dowling Singh
Walking Each Other Home - Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush

Planning

A Beginner's Guide to the End - Dr. BJ Miller & Shoshana Berger
Let's Talk About Death over Dinner - Michael Hebb
Making Tough Decisions about End-of-Life Care in Dementia - Anne Kenny
Reimagining Death - Lucinda Herring
Take Care of Dying - Get On With Living - Theo Wells
The Conversation - Angelo Volandes, MD

Practical

Advice for Future Corpses - Sallie Tisdale
Fear of Death: It's About Life, Actually: Let's Talk About It - Amy Wallace, MA
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty
Handbook for Mortals - Joanne Lynn
Living at the End of Life - Karen Whitley Bell, RN
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
The Art of Dying Well - Katy Butler
The Dying Time - Joan Furman, RN & David McNabb
Will My Cat Eat MY Eyeballs? - Caitlin Doughty

Right to Die

A Good Death - Sandra Martin
Choosing to Die - Phyllis Shacter
To Die Well - Sidney Wanzer
When My Time Comes - Diane Rehm

Films:

Consider the Conversation
Speaking of Dying
Departures
An Honest Death - A Pallative Care Doctor's Final Days
After Life (Japanese movie with English subtitles)
Go Gentle
Coco
Harold & Maude

Games & Activities:

Hello - board game
The Death Deck - card game
Go Wish - card game
WeCroak - mobile phone app

Organizations:

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