This selection of websites, books, and dvd’s are chosen because they have shaped and informed my perspectives on death and dying. I encourage you to explore any that resonate with you.

Websites:
www.Deathmakeslifepossible.com
www.Dyingmatters.org
www.ZenHospice.org
www.Chopra.com
www.Vitaltalk.org
www.MarilynSchlitz.com
www.DeathCafe.com
www.DeathOverDinner.org
www.TheConversationProject.org
www.ChopraFoundation.org
www.DrWayneDyer.com
www.RamDass.org
www.ShareTheCare.org

Books:

Death Makes Life Possible, Marilyn Schlitz, PhD

• Revolutionary Insights on Living, Dying, and the Continuation of Consciousness

In Awe of Being Human, Betsy MacGregor, M.D.

• A Doctor’s Stories from the Edge of Life and Death

Life Before Life, Jim B. Tucker, M.D.

• Children’s Memories of Previous Lives

One Mind, Larry Dossey, M.D.

• How Our Individual Mind is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why it Matters

Being Mortal, Atul Gawande, M.D.

• Medicine and What Matters in the End

Memories of Heaven, Dr. Wayne W. Dyer and Dee Garnes

• Children’s Astounding Recollections of the Time Before They Came to Earth

Dying to be Me, Anita Moorjani

• My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing

Proof of Heaven, Eben Alexander, M.D.

• A Neurosurgeon’s Journey in the Afterlife

My Life After Dying, George G. Ritchie, Jr., M.D.

• How 9 Minutes in Heaven Taught Me How to Live on Earth

The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, Bonnie Ware

• A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

At Peace in the Light, Dannion Brinkley

• A message of inspiration, guidance, and the unlimited opportunity for spiritual growth and renewal

Saved by the Light, Dannion Brinkley

Living Our Dying, Joseph Sharp

• A Way to the Sacred in Everyday Life

90 Minutes in Heaven, Don Piper and Cecil Murphey

• A True Story of Death and Life

My Descent into Death, Howard Storm

• A Second Chance at Life

Same Soul Many Bodies, Brian Weiss, M.D.

• Discover the Healing Power of Future Lives Through Progression Therapy

Dying – A Natural Passage, Denys Cope, RN, BSN

• A one-of-a-kind guidebook provides practical and insightful information about rarely addressed end-of-life issues

The Art of Dying, Peter Fenwick and Elisabeth Fenwick

• A book to help the dying, their loved ones and their health care workers better understand the dying process and to come to terms with death itself.

Finding Hope When a Child Dies, Sukie Miller, Ph.D

• What Other Cultures Can Teach Us

Advise on Dying and Living a Better Life, His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Tuesdays With Morrie, Mitch Albom

• An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson

The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom

• All Endings are also Beginnings, We Just Don’t Know it at the Time

The Grace in Dying, Kathleen Dowling Singh

• A Message of Hope, Comfort, and Spiritual Transformation

Death Be Not Proud, John Gunther

• A Father’s Deeply Moving Memoir of a Brave, Intelligent, and Spirited Boy

Good Life, Good Death, Rimpoche Nawang Gehlek

• Tibetan Wisdom on Reincarnation

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche

• A Book “To inspire a quiet revolution in the whole way we look at health and care for the dying, and the whole way we look at life and care for the living.”

How We Die, Sherwin B. Nuland

• Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D

• A Story of Life for All Ages

Do Dead People Watch You Shower?, Concetta Bertoldi

• And Other Questions You’ve Been All but Dying to Ask a Medium

The Wheel of Life, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.

• A Memoir of Living and Dying

DVD’s:
Being Mortal – Produced by PBS – Frontline

• Reexamine death and dying with surgeon and bestselling author Atul Gawande

Overcoming the Fear of Death, Deepak Chopra, M.D.

• A Conversation with Deepak Chopra “The pain and loss we feel at death is not suffering; suffering is when you become attached to your pain.”

Tuesdays With Morrie

• A Loving Memoir to Morrie Schwartz, whose lessons on life have much to teach us

Grief Walker

• An extraordinary portrait of Harvard-trained theologian Stephen Jenkinson, who teaches that death empowers us to live and that we must know grief well in order to appreciate our own lives.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-aid-in-dying-lapook/