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• After Death Care
• Afterlife/Metaphysical/Near Death Experience
• Ancestors
• Animal Loss
• BIPOC
• Child Loss
• Communication & Conversations
• Complex Grief & Sudden Loss
• Death Study & Culture
• Dementia
• Diagnosis
• Fear
• Fiction
• Finances
• For Care Professionals
• For Caregivers
• For Children
• For Teens & Young Adults
• Funeral
• Grief
• Human Experience
• Humor
• Medical Aid In Dying
• Meditations
• Memoir
• Partner Loss
• Poetry
• Preparing for Death & Dying Well
• Pregnancy Loss
• Psilocybin & Psychedelics
• Ritual
• Solo Agers
• Spirituality & Religion
• Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking
• Workbooks

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This website is a new work in progress. The Death Bookshop is created and maintained by Beth Naumann, End of Life Doula. Purchasing books through the links on this site allows me to continue adding resources to the Bookshop, and helping people find valuable and relevant information.Please use the contact form if you'd like to collaborate, add your resource to the site, or if there is something I can help you find. I have many more resources I am working to add to the site.Thank you so much for visiting and supporting.

After Death Care

• A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by Dr. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger

• All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

• Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead by Cody J. Sanders and Mikeal C. Parsons

• Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death by Joshua Slocum and Lisa Carlson

• From Here to Eternity, Caitlin Doughty

• Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth

Afterlife, Metaphysical, Near Death Experience

• Between Death & Life by Dolores Cannon

• In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife by Sebastian Junger

• Words at the Threshold: What We Say As We're Nearing Death by Lisa Smartt

ancestors

• Veneration Rites of Curanderismo: Invoking the Sacred Energy of Our Ancestors by Erika Buenaflor, M.A., J.D.

Animal Loss

• Grieving the Loss of Your Horse by Rebecca M. Crow

• Grieving the Loss of Your Pet by Rebecca Cagle

• When Your Pet Dies: A Guide to Mourning, Remembering and Healing by Alan Wolfelt

BIPOC

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breeshia Wade

• Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End by Darnell Lamont Walker

• Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma by Samah Jabr

• Veneration Rites of Curanderismo: Invoking the Sacred Energy of Our Ancestors by Erika Buenaflor, M.A., J.D.

Child Loss

• Ask Me His Name: Learning to Live and Laugh Again After the Loss of My Baby by Elle Wright

• Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore and Jeffrey Rubin

• Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler

• Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies by Alan Wolfelt

• How to Survive Baby Loss: A Journey of Heartache and Hope by Jennifer Martin MAPC

• How to Survive the Death of an Adult Child: A Guide to Coping with Profound Sorrow, Navigate the Journey of Grief and Healing, Embrace Life After Unimaginable Loss by Shari Claire

• How to Survive the Loss of a Child: Filling the Emptiness and Rebuilding Your Life by Catherine Sanders

Communication

• Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) by Sallie Tisdale

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

• Being with Dying by Joan Halifax

• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

• Conversations About Death: A Practical Guide to Talking about End-of-Life Care and Dying by Sally Cant

Complex Grief & Sudden Loss

• Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss

• Grief After Homicide: Surviving, Mourning, Reconciling by Alan Wolfelt

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

• Traumatic Loss Workbook: Powerful Skills for Navigating the Grief Caused by a Sudden or Unexpected Death by Jennifer R Levin PhD and Edward K Rynearson MD

• Understanding Your Grief After a Drug-Overdose Death by Alan Wolfelt

• Understanding Your Suicide Grief by Alan Wolfelt

• Radiance in Pain and Resilience: The Global Reverberation of Palestinian Historical Trauma by Samah Jabr

Death Study & Culture

• All the Living and the Dead by Hayley Campbell

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

• Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington

• Death: The Trip of a Lifetime by Greg Palmer

• Death's Door: Modern Dying and the Ways We Grieve by Sandra M Gilbert

• Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death by Joshua Slocum and Lisa Carlson

• From Here to Eternity, Caitlin Doughty

• Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth

• Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Dementia, Alzheimers, Memory Loss

• The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss by Mace and Rabins

• Before I Lose My Own Mind: Navigating Life as a Dementia Caregiver by Beverly E Thorn

Diagnosis

• A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin D Yalom & Marilyn Yalom

• Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis by Sammy Winemaker, Hsien Seow

Fear

• Being with Dying by Joan Halifax

• Between Death & Life by Dolores Cannon

• In Love With the World A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

• No Death, No Fear: Comforting Wisdom for Life, by Thich Nhat Hanh

• Nothing to Fear: Demystifying Death to Live More Fully by Julie McFadden RN

• Overcoming the Fear of Death: Through Each of the 4 Main Belief Systems by Kelvin H Chin

Fiction

• Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas

• I Fell In Love With Hope by Lancali

• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives by David Eagleman

• The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

Finances

• Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers: A Retirement and Aging Roadmap for Single and Childless Adults by Sara Zeff Geber PhD

• Executor Help: How to Settle an Estate, Pick an Executor, and Avoid Family Fights by David E Edey

For Care Professionals

• Anxious Grief: A Clinician's Guide to Supporting Grieving Clients Experiencing Anxiety, Panic, and Fear by Claire Bidwell Smith

• Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care edited by Koshin Paley Ellison and Matt Weingast

• At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life by Samuel Harrington

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

• Coaching and Healing: Transcending the Illness Narrative

• Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke - Ebook

• Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life by Jessica Zitter, MD

• Grief on the Front Lines: Reckoning with Trauma, Grief, and Humanity in Modern Medicine by Rachel Jones

• Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis by Sammy Winemaker, Hsien Seow

• Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End by Darnell Lamont Walker

• On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

• The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care by Kimberly D Acquaviva

For Caregivers

• Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) by Sallie Tisdale

• Age in Place: A Guide to Modifying, Organizing and Decluttering Mom and Dad's Home by Lynda Shrager

• Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of-Life Care edited by Koshin Paley Ellison and Matt Weingast

• Before I Lose My Own Mind: Navigating Life as a Dementia Caregiver by Beverly E Thorn

• Being with Dying by Joan Halifax

• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

• Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke - Ebook

• Dementia: Empowered Caregiving by Lorri A Harris

• Expected Loss: Coping with Anticipatory Grief by Alan Wolfelt

• Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life by Jessica Zitter, MD

• Graceful Exit: How to Advocate Effectively, Take Care of Yourself, and Be Present for the Death of a Loved One by Gustavo Ferrer M.D.

• Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis by Sammy Winemaker, Hsien Seow

• Never Can Say Goodbye: The Life of a Death Doula and the Art of a Peaceful End by Darnell Lamont Walker

• Own Your Care: A Family Guide to Navigating Complex Illness, Changing Health or Unexpected Prognosis by Jeanne Lee

• The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss by Mace and Rabins

• The Complete Eldercare Planner: Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help by Joy Loverde

• Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying by Mirabai Bush, Ram Dass

For Children

• A Garden of Creatures by Sheila Heti, Esmé Shapiro

• A Peaceful Piggy's Guide to Sickness and Death, Sadness and Love by Kerry Lee MacLean

• A Terrible Thing Happened by Margaret M Holmes and Cary Pillo

• Badger's Parting Gifts: A Tender Classic About Friendship, Loss and Memories for Kids (ages 4-8) by Susan Varley

• Charlotte's Web by E. B. White

• Grief is an Elephant by Tamara Ellis Smith

• Memory Stones by Kathy Kacer and Hayley Lowe (Grandparent loss)

• Nana Upstairs and Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola

For Teens & Young Adults

non-fiction

• Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas by Alan Wolfelt

• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

fiction

• Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

• Counting by 7s by Holly Goldberg Sloan

• King and the Dragonflies by Kacen Callender

• Lolo's Light by Liz Garton

• Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay

• The Astonishing Color of After by Emily X R Pan

• We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Funeral

• Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington

• Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death by Joshua Slocum and Lisa Carlson

• Home Funeral Guidebook by Home Funeral Alliance

• It's Your Funeral! Plan the Celebration of a Lifetime--Before It's Too Late by Kathy Benjamin

Grief

• A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin D Yalom & Marilyn Yalom

• Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) by Sallie Tisdale

• Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore and Jeffrey Rubin

• Confessions of a Griever: Turning a Hot Mess into an Haute Message (Laughable Lessons for when Life Just Sucks) by Crystal Webster

• Conscious Grieving: A Transformative Approach to Healing from Loss by Claire Bidwell Smith

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler

• Grieving is Loving: Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

• Grieving While Black: An Antiracist Take on Oppression and Sorrow by Breeshia Wade

• Healing a Child's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas for Families, Friends and Caregivers by Alan Wolfelt

• Healing a Parent's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Child Dies by Alan Wolfelt

• Its OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine

• Nature Heals: Reconciling Your Grief Through Engaging with the Natural World by Alan Wolfelt

• Prayers of Honoring Grief by Pixie Lighthorse

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

• Traumatic Loss Workbook: Powerful Skills for Navigating the Grief Caused by a Sudden or Unexpected Death by Jennifer R Levin PhD and Edward K Rynearson MD

• Complex Grief
• Child Loss
• Animal Loss
• Partner Loss

Human Experience

• A Year to Live by Stephen Levine

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

• How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron

Humor

• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

• Confessions of a Griever: Turning a Hot Mess into an Haute Message (Laughable Lessons for when Life Just Sucks) by Crystal Webster

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

• Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty

• The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief by Nora McInerny

LGBTQIA+

• Identity Affirming Deathcare Directives Workbook

• Louisiana LGBTQ+ End of Life Guide by Wake

• The Handbook of LGBTQIA-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care by Kimberly D Acquaviva

Medical Aid In Dying

• Choosing to Die: A Daughter's Story Of Supporting Her Mother's End Of Life Through Assisted Death by Theresa E Evans

• Death with Dignity podcast

• God Is Still With You: A Catholic Guide to Medical Aid in Dying (MAID): Facing the End with Grace by Father Chris

• Medical Aid in Dying: A Guide for Patients and Their Supporters by Lonny Shavelson MD

Meditations

• Grieving is Loving: Compassionate Words for Bearing the Unbearable by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

• Prayers of Honoring Grief by Pixie Lighthorse

• The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings and Meditations on Crossing Over by Starhawk
• Link

• The Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo

Memoir

• A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin D Yalom & Marilyn Yalom

• And Finally by Henry Marsh

• Can't We Talk about Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast

• Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner

• Dear Life: A Doctor's Story of Love and Loss by Rachel Clarke - Ebook

• In Love With the World A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Near Death Experience -- see afterlife, etc

Partner Loss

• A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin D Yalom & Marilyn Yalom

• Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies by Alan Wolfelt

• The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief by Nora McInerny

Poetry

• Beyond Absence: A Treasury of Poems, Quotations and Readings on Death and Remembrance by Edward Searl

• Death Poems Classic, Contemporary, Witty, Serious, Tearjerking, Wise, Profound, Angry, Funny, Spiritual, Atheistic, Uncertain, Personal, Political, Mythic, Earthy, and Only Occasionally Morbid by Russ Kick

• Japanese Death Poems: Written by Zen Monks and Haiku Poets on the Verge of Death Compiled by Yoel Hoffmann

Preparing for death & dying well

• A Year to Live by Stephen Levine

• A Beginner's Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by Dr. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger

• Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them) by Sallie Tisdale

• A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin D Yalom & Marilyn Yalom

• Age in Place: A Guide to Modifying, Organizing and Decluttering Mom and Dad's Home by Lynda Shrager

• At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life by Samuel Harrington

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

• Between Death & Life by Dolores Cannon

• Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

• End of Life Tips by Gabrielle Jimenez

• Executor Help: How to Settle an Estate, Pick an Executor, and Avoid Family Fights by David E Edey

• Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life by Jessica Zitter, MD

• Farewell: Vital End-of-Life Questions with Candid Answers from a Leading Palliative and Hospice Physician by Sandra Wendel, Edward T Creagan MD

• Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis by Sammy Winemaker, Hsien Seow

• Identity Affirming Deathcare Directives Workbook

• The Complete Eldercare Planner: Where to Start, Which Questions to Ask, and How to Find Help by Joy Loverde

• Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying by Mirabai Bush, Ram Dass

Pregnancy Loss

Psilocybin

• The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brian C. Muraresku

Spirituality & Religion

• Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington

• Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth

• The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings and Meditations on Crossing Over by Starhawk

Buddhism

• Being with Dying by Joan Halifax

• How We Live Is How We Die by Pema Chodron

• In Love With the World A Monk's Journey Through the Bardos of Living and Dying by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Ritual

• Celebrations of Death: The Anthropology of Mortuary Ritual by Peter Metcalf and Richard Huntington

• Death: The Trip of a Lifetime by Greg Palmer

• Lonely Planet's Guide to Death, Grief and Rebirth

• Ritual Without Religion: A Humanist Guide to Creating Secular Ceremonies, by Megan Sheldon

• Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community by Camille Sapara Barton

• The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings and Meditations on Crossing Over by Starhawk

Solo Agers

• Essential Retirement Planning for Solo Agers: A Retirement and Aging Roadmap for Single and Childless Adults by Sara Zeff Geber PhD

Spirituality

Sudden Loss

Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking

• Choosing to Die by Phyllis Shacter

Workbook

• Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief Workbook by David Kessler

• Traumatic Loss Workbook: Powerful Skills for Navigating the Grief Caused by a Sudden or Unexpected Death by Jennifer R Levin PhD and Edward K Rynearson MD

• The Understanding Your Grief Journal: Exploring the Ten Essential Touchstones by Alan Wolfelt

• Workbook - Applying the 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis by Dr Sammy Winemaker and Dr Hsien Seow

ARTICLE

• Death Doulas Used to Be Rare. The COVID-19 Pandemic Changed That by Melissa Chan, TIME

FILM

• A Family Undertaking (Documentary)

• A New Understanding: The Science of Psilocybin (Documentary)

• After Life (Drama)

• Becoming Nobody (Ram Dass, Documentary)

• Caregiving (Documentary)

• Jack Has a Plan (Documentary)

• Departures (Drama)

• Facing Death, PBS Frontline (Documentary)

• Griefwalker (Documentary)

• Going Home, Ram Dass (Documentary)

• In the Realm of Death & Dreaming: Does consciousness continue after death? (Documentary)

• Saying Goodbye: Preparing for Death (Documentary)

• The Farewell (Drama)

GUIDED MEDITATION

PODCAST

• All There Is with Anderson Cooper

• Best Life Best Death with Diane Hullet

• Comforting Closure with Traci Arielli

• Dead Funny, Dead Serious with Mitzi Weiland

• Death in the Afternoon: The Order of the Good Death with Caitlin Doughty

• Death with Dignity with Andrew Flack

• Dying Kindness: Planning is a Kindness with Cianna Stewart

• End of Life University with Karen Wyatt MD

• Let's Talk Near Death with Kirsty Salisbury

• Seeing Death Clearly with Jill McClennen

• Sorry About the Kid with Alex McKinnon

• The Heart of Hospice with Helen Bauer

• You're Going to Die: The Podcast with Ned Buskirk

REFLECTION CARDS

• The Grief Deck: Rituals, Meditations, and Tools for Moving Through Loss by Adriene Jenik, Artists' Literacies Institute

Service websites

• Freewill.com - Create a free will

• Empty Arms Bereavement Support - Pregnancy and Baby Loss, with support groups by identity

• Mykeeper.com - Create an online memorial site

• Compassionandchoices.org - End-of-life decision resources and consultations

• Queer Grief Club - Monthly online grief support with Jamie Thrower

• Remembrancepets.com

• Louisiana LGBTQ+ End of Life Guide by Wake

SOUND HEALING

VIDEO

• Comforting Closure

• New Rules for End of Life Care by Barbara Karnes