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Death and Dying, Life and Living Links and Biblio:  Dying Process/Experience

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See also AIDS; Alzheimers/Dementia; Cancer; Caregiving, Children and Dying; Chronic Illness; Dying ProcessHealth Care/Nursing; Life Threatening and Prolonged Illnesses; Narratives; Respiratory; Sickle Cell Disease; Stroke,

Websites: Americans for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD)  http://www.abcd-caring.org/

The Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation® (CCCF)  http://www.candlelighters.org/

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)  http://www.cdc.gov/

End of Life Care for Children and Their Families: Ethical Dimensions  http://www.HELIX.com

Growth House: life-threatening illness and end of life care.  http://www.growthhouse.org/

Hospice Foundation of America  http://www.hospicefoundation.org/

Hospice & Palliative Care Federation  http://www.hospicefed.org/

Hospice Net  http://hospicenet.org/

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization  http://www.NHPCO.org/

National Children's Cancer Society  http://www.nationalchildrenscancersociety.com

National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health offer Medline http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/deathanddying.html

Sickle Cell Information Center  http://www.scinfo.org/

Bibliography; 

Barthelme, William.  Lessons from the Angel of Death.  2000 (esophagial cancer).  http://www.eccafe.org/sto/wbartholome/lessons.html

Byock, Ira.  Dying Well: Peace and Possibilities at the End of Life.  Riverhead, 1998. HQ1073 .B96 1998

Callahan, Maggie and Patricia Kelley.  Final Gifts:  Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying.  1997.  BF787 .O4 C25 1997

Callahan, M. & Kelley, P. (2008).  Final Journeys:  A practical guide for bringing comfort at the end of life.  NY: Bantam. 

Coberly, Margaret, Ph.D., R. N.  Sacred Passage:  How to Provide Fearless Compassionate Care for the Dying. 2003.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael.  Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine and Law.  2001.  R726 .C635 2001

Doka, K. J. (Ed.).  (2007). Living with grief:  Before and after the death. Washington, D. C.: HFA.

End-of-life: A nurses’s guide to compassionate care.  (2007).  Ambler, Pa:  Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins.

Estess, Jenifer as told to Valerie Estess.  Tales from the Bed: On Living, Dying and Having it All:  A Memoir.  2004 (ALS)

Feldman, D. B. & Lasher, S. A. (2007).  The end-of-life handbook:  A compassionate guide to connecting with and caring for a dying loved one.  Oakland, CA:  New Harbinger Pub.

Fenwick, P. & Fenwick, E. (2008).  The art of dying:  A journey to elsewhere.  London:  Continuum.

Foley, Kathleen and Herbert Hendin.  Case Against Assisted Suicide:  For the Right to End-of-Life Care.  2002.  R726 .C355 2002

Griffith, William H.  More than a Parting Prayer:  Lessons in Caregiving for the Dying.  2004.

Groopman, Jerome. The Measure of Our Days: New Beginnings at Life's End.  NY: Viking, 1997. R726.8 .G77 1997

Halifax, J. (2008).  Being with dying:  Cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death.  Boston:  Shambala.

Hennezel, Marie de.  Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us to Live. NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997.

Kauffman, S. R. (2005).   And a time to die:  How American hospitals shape the end of life.  NY: Scribners.

Keizer, Bert.  Dancing with Mister D.: Notes on Life and Death.  NY: Doublday, 1997

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

Kuhl, David.  What Dying People Want:  Practical Wisdom for the End of Life.  Public Affairs, 2002.

Lawton, Julia.  Dying Process:  Patients' Experiences of Palliative Care.  2000.  R726.8 .L39 2000.

Livingston, Gordon.  Only Spring:  On Mourning the Death of My Son.  1995.  (one Suicide; one Leukemia)

Longaker, Christine.  Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying.  NY: Doubleday, 1997. BF789 .D4 L664 2001

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

Lynn, Joanne, J. L. Schuster, and A. Kabcenell.  Improving Care for the End of Life:  A Source Book for Health Care Managers and and Clinicians.  Oxford UP, 2000.

Meyer, C. A Good Death:  Challenges, Choices, and Care Options.  1998.

Morgan, J., ed.  Ethical Issues in the Care of the Dying and Bereaved Aged
.  1996.

Morris, David B.  The Culture of Pain, 1991.  RB127 .M67 1991.

Morris, Virginia.  Talking about Death.  2001.

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

Nuland, Sherwin B.  How We Die:  Reflections on Life's Final Chapter.  1994.  BD444 .N85 1994.

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

Smith, H. L.  Finding Your Way to say Goodbye:  Comfort for the Dying and Those Who Care for Them.  2002.

Taylor, Joan.  In the Light of Dying: The Journals of a Hospice Volunteer.  Crossroad, 1993. R726.8 .T39 1989

Weenolsen, Patricia, Phd.  The Art of Dying: The Only Book for Persons Facing Their Own Death:  A Comprehensive Guide to Your Physical, Emotion, and Spiritual Concerns.  NY: St. Martin's, 1996. BF789 .D4 W34 1997

Last Chapters (on-line sharing and resources):  http://www.lastchapters.org/index.cgi?id=73