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General Resources:

Bryant, Clifton D., ed.  Handbook of Death and Dying.  2003.  REFERENCE.  HQ1073 .H36 2003.

DeSpelder, Lynn.  The Last Dance:  Encountering Death and Dying, 6th ed.  McGraw-Hill, 2001.

DeSpelder, Lynn, ed.  The Path Ahead:  Readings in Death and Dying.  McGraw-Hill, 1995.  BD444 .P37 1995

DeVries, Brian, ed.  End of Life Issues:  Interdisciplinary and Multidimensional Perspectives.  1999.  HQ1073 .E56 1999

Dudley, William, ed. Death and Dying: Opposing Viewpoints (H31.062 D28 1992)

Kastenbaum, Robert.  Death, Society, and Human Experience.  8th Ed. 2004. 

Kastenbaum, Robert, ed.  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.  2003.  REFERENCE HQ1073.M33 2003

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D. and David Kessler.  Life Lessons: Two Experts on  Death and Dying Teach Us about the Mysteries of Life and Living 2000.  BJ1581.2 K83 2000.

Leming, Michael and George Dickinson.  Understanding Death, Dying and Bereavement.  6th Ed. Forthcoming 2005.

Morgan, Ernest.  Dealing Creatively with Death : A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial.  Jennifer Moran, ed. Hinesburg, Va: Upper Access Book Publishers, 2001.

Morgan, John D.  Readings in Thanatology:  Death Value and Meaning Series, ed. John D. Morgan.  1997. 

Muth, Annemarie, ed.  Death and Dying Sourcebook:  Basic Consumer Health: Information for the Layperson About End-of-Life Care and Related Ethical and Legal Issues. 2000  Reference R726.8 D3785 2000

Palmer, Greg.  Death: The Trip of a Lifetime.  1993.

Rinpoche, Sogyal.  Tibetan Book of Living and Dying.  San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992.  BQ7640 .S64 1992

Spiro, Howard M., Mary G. McCrea Curnen, and Lee Palmer Wandel, eds.  Facing Death:  Where Culture, Religon, and Medicine Meet.  New Haven: Yale UP, 1996.  F7268 .F33 1996

Torr, James D. and Laura K. Egendorf, eds.  Problems of Death:  Opposing Viewpoints.  2000.  H31 .O62 P97 2000.

Wass, Hannelore and Robert A. Neimeyer, eds.  Dying: Facing the Facts.  3rd ed. 1995.

End of Life Internet Resources:  http://www.qlmed.org/end-of-life/url.html

Death and Dying Resources, Global Ideas Bank:  http://www.globalideasbank.org/death.html

ADEC D&D web links:  http://www.adec.org/links/index.htm

Yahoo Directory to Death and Dying Resources:  http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Death_and_Dying/

National Public Radio Web Resources:  http://www.npr.org/programs/death/resources.html

American Death Education and Counseling:  http://www.adec.org/

Annual Editions, Death, Dying and Bereavement weblinks:  http://www.dushkin.com/online/get-isbn.mhtml?isbn=0072479906#sect_1

PBS Bill Moyers On Our Own Terms site and supplemental resources:  http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/

PBS With Eyes Open series and resources:  http://www.pbs.org/witheyesopen/

Encylopedias, Dictionaries, Handbooks, Sourcebooks, etc.

Barnett, Elizabeth, Michele L. Casper, Joel A. Halverson, Zainal A. Majeed, and Amy S. Bloom., eds. Men and Heart Disease:  An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality.  2000.  Electronic Resouce through Library Catalog

Beresford, Larry.  The Hospice Handbook: A Complete Guide.  Little, Brown, 1993. R726.8 .B36 1993

Bryant, Clifton D., ed.  Handbook of Death and Dying.  2003.  REFERENCE.  HQ1073 .H36 2003.

Casper, Michele L.  Atlas of Stroke Mortality: Racial, Ethnic and Geographic Disparities in the United States.  2003.  Electronic Resouce through Library Catalog

Casper, Michele L., ed. Women and Heart Disease:  An Atlas of Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Mortality.  2001.

Corr, Charles A. and David E. Balk, eds.  Handbook of Adolescent Death and Bereavement.  NY: Springer, 1996.

Corr, Charles A. and Donna M. Corr, eds.  Handbook of Childhood Death and Bereavement.  NY: Springer, 1996.

Hawton, Keith and Kees van Heeringen, eds.  The International Handbook of Suicide and Attempted Suicide.  NY: Wiley, 2000.  Reference HV6545 .J59 2002

Kastenbaum, Robert, ed.  Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying.  2003.  REFERENCE HQ1073.M33 2003

Krapp, Kristine, ed.  Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health.  2002.  REFERENCE  RT21 .G353 2002

LaFollette, Hugh, ed. . Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics. 2003 BJ1031 .O94 2003

Lynn, Joanne and Joan Harrold, eds.  Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness.  NY: Oxford University Press, 1999. R726.8 H353 1999

Malchiodi, Cathy A.  Handbook of Art Therapy.  RC489.A7 H365 2003.  On Reserve.

Morgan, Ernest.  Dealing Creatively with Death : A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial.  Jennifer Moran, ed. Hinesburg, Va: Upper Access Book Publishers, 2001.

Muth, Annemarie, ed.  Death and Dying Sourcebook:  Basic Consumer Health: Information for the Layperson About End-of-Life Care and Related Ethical and Legal Issues. 2000  Reference R726.8 D3785 2000

Post, S., ed.  Encyclopedia of Bioethics.  3rd ed.  (2004) QH332 .E52 2004

Stroebe, M. S., R. O. Hansen, W. Sroebe & H. Schut.  Handbook of Bereavement Research.  Washington, D.C.: Americn Psychological Association, 2001.

Taylor, Richard.  Death and the Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia.  2000.  GT3150 .T25 2000

Information, Statistics and Research:

Centers for Disease Control: http://www.cdc.gov  

Centers for Disease Control Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report:  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/

Causes of Death Reports (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control): http://webapp.cdc.gov/sasweb/ncipc/leadcaus.html

Dept. of Health and Human Services: Measuring Health Care Quality:  http://www.ahcpr.gov/

Virtual Library on Demography and Population Studies:  http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/

Compassion Books: http://www.compassionbooks.com  

Individual Writers and Thanatologists:
Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D. To Live Until We Say Goodbye. Photographs by Mal Warshaw.  Text by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M. D. Ross Medical, 1978.

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D.   On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families.  1997-1969.  BF789.D4 K8 1997

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth, M. D. and David Kessler.  Life Lessons: Two Experts on  Death and Dying Teach Us about the Mysteries of Life and Living 2000.  BJ1581.2 K83 2000.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross:  http://www.elisabethkublerross.co

Narratives/Memoirs/Autobiographical Accounts

Albom, Mitch.  Tuesdays with Morrie:  An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson.  1997. (ALS) LD571 .B418 S383 1997.

Armstrong, Lance and Sally Jenkins.  It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life.  2001 (testicular cancer)

Bauby, Jean-Dominique  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.  1997.  ("Locked-in Syndrome")

Blauner, Susan Rose.  How I Stayed Alive when My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me:  One Person's Guide to Suicide Prevention.  2002. (Suicide Prevention)   RC569 .B585 2002

Cohen, Richard M.  Blindsided:  Lifting a Life Above Illness.  A Reluctant Memoir.  2004 (Multiple Sclerosis AND Colon Cancer)

Collins, Judy.  Sanity and Grace:  A Journey of Suicide, Survival, and Strength.  2003 (Surviving the loss of her son to suicide)

DeBeauvoir, Simone.  A Very Easy Death.  1985 (Caregiving for mother dying of cancer)

DeFord, Frank.  Alex: The Life of a Child.  1983 (Cystic Fibrosis)  PQ2603 .E362 M613 1973

Friesen, Lynette.  After Goodbye: A Daughter's Story of Grief and Promise.  2005.

Glick, Liz and Dan Zegart.  Your Father's Voice:  Letters for Emmy about Life with Jeremy -- and Without Him After 9/11.  2004.

Grealy, Lucy.  Autobiography of a Face.  (Aftermath of Jaw Cancer)

Gunther, John. Death Be Not Proud.  Harper Perennial 1965. (brain tumor)  CT275 .G855 A3 1966.

Hall, Doris and Ken.  Go Out and Live: A 27-Year Journey of Change.  Doris and Ken Hall, 2003 (cancer)

Kadohata, Cynthia.  Kira-Kira.  2004.  (novel about a Japanese American girl who loses a sister to lymphoma)

Korda, Michael.  Man to Man:  Surviving Prostate Cancer.  1996.  (Prostate Cancer)

Lorde, Audre.  The Cancer Journals.  1980 ( Breast Cancer)  RC 280. B8 L58 1987

McCrum, Robert.  My Year Off: Recovering Life After a Stroke.  1998.  (Stroke)

Monette, Paul.  Halfway Home.  1991 (Fictional memoir of brother with AIDS)

Nielsen, Dr. Jerri with Maryanne Vollers.  Ice Bound:  A Doctor's Incredible Battle for Survival at the South Pole.  2001. (Breast Cancer)  RC280 .B8 N54 2001

Nouwen, Henri J. M.  Beyond the Mirror:  Reflections on Death and Life.  1990. (Car accident))

Patchett, Ann.  Truth and Beauty: A Friendship. 2004 (Friendship with Lucy Grealy, see above)

Propp, Karen.  In Sickness & In Health:  A Love Story.  2002 (Husband with Prostate Cancer)

Robben, Antonius.  Death Mourning and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader. 2005

Roberts, Barbara K.  Death Without Denial; Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss.  2002 (Oregon governor; husband with prostate cancer and then lung cancer)

Schwartz, Morrie.  Morrie: In His Own Words.  Morrie Schwartz, 1996.  (ALS)

Schmidt, Laura and Joe Pizzarello.  A Good Death: A Couple's Journey. 2004 (Pancreatic Cancer)

Shames, Laurence and Peter Barton.   Not Fade Away: A Short Life Well Lived.  Rodale, 2003.  (Stomach cancer)

Stepanek, Mattie J. T. Journey Through Heartsongs. 2001 (Muscular Dystrophy)

Weisman, Jamie.  As I Live and Breathe: Notes of a Patient-Doctor.  2002.  (Asthma)