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Death and Dying, Life and Living Links and Biblio:  Life Threatening and Prolonged Illnesses

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See AIDS; Alzheimers/Dementia; Anticipatory Mourning; Cancer; Caregiving; Children and Dying; Chronic Illness; Dying Process; Health Care/Nursing; Hospice; Narratives, Neurological/Neuromuscular, Palliative Care; Respiratory; Sickle Cell Disease; Stroke,

Weblinks:  https://www.lifethreateningillness.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.

Doka, K. J.  (2009).  Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness.  NY: Springer. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Morris, Virginia.  Talking about Death.  2001.

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.

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