Death and Dying Fall 2004 Syllabus

General Resources:

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/

Information 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  

Children and Adolescents:

Children with AIDS:  http://www.aidskids.org/

National SIDS Resource Center:  http://www.sidscenter.org

American Academy of Pediatrics/Palliative Care for Children: http://www.aap.org/policy/re0007.html

National Association of School Psychologists resources for "Coping with a National Tragedy" at http://www.nasponline.org/NEAT/crisis_0911.html

Yellow Ribbon Suicide Prevention Project:  http://www.yellowribbon.org/

The Center For Grieving Children:  Bibliography  http://www.cgcmaine.org/docs/subdocs/bibliography.htm

Dougy Center for Grieving Children:  http://www.grievingchild.org/

Hospice and Palliative Care:

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

American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine:  http://www.aahpm.org/

Growth House/Improving End of Life Care:  http://www.growthhouse.org/

Last Acts Organization:  http://www.lastacts.org/

National Prison Hospice Association:  http://www.npha.org/

Zen Hospice Project:  http://www.zenhospice.org/

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

Trinity Hospice Foundation:  http://www.trinityhospicefoundation.org/thanatology.htm

Ethics and Social Issues in Death and Dying:

Brain Injury and Brain Death Sources: http://www.changesurfer.com/BD/Brain.html

Euthanasia and End of Life Decisions:  http://ethics.acusd.edu/Applied/Euthanasia/

Social Issues:  http://mel.lib.mi.us/social/SOC-death.html

Not Dead Yet: Americans with Disabilities:  http://www.notdeadyet.org/

Soros on Assisted Suicide etc.:  http://www.soros.org/death/links/pas.html

Grief and Bereavement:

GriefNet:  http://rivendell.org

Practical Grief Resources:  http://www.indiana.edu/~hperf558/res_prac.html

Widow Net:  http://www.fortnet.org/WidowNet

Death and Dying in History and Cultures:

Ancient World Cultures:  http://eawc.evansville.edu/nepage.htm

Internet Modern History Sourcebook http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html

Guide to Research in History and Etext sources:  http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook01.html

Historical Text Archives:  http://www.geocities.com/djmabry/index.html

U. S. Historical Documents/Native Americans:  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/statutes/native/namenu.htm

Documents for the Study of American History:     http://www.ukans.edu/carrie/docs/amdocs_index.html

National Women's History Project (1848-Present):  http://www.legacy98.org/index.html

American Indian Resources:  http://jupiter.lang.osaka-u.ac.jp/~krkvls/naindex.html

Hispanic America: http://www.neta.com/~1stbooks/index.html

Native American Historical Documents:  http://www.wintercount.org/archives/texts/

Native American Councilfire: http://www.councilfire.com/

International Social History:  http://www.iisg.nl/index.html

Maya Links:  http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/maya.html

Maya Studies:  http://www.mayastudies.org/

Interpreting the Irish Famine 1848-1850 (A Collection of Documents): http://www.people.Virginia.EDU/~eas5e/Irish/Famine.html

Spirituality, Sacred Texts, Ancient Texts:

Tibetan Book of the Dead (written down 8th c. AD).0:  http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/dead/foreword.html
and http://reluctant-messenger.com/tibetan-book-of-the-dead.htm
Sacred Texts Archive:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Native American sacred texts:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/index.htm

Aboriginal Sites (Australia):  http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVLPages/AborigPages/History.htm

Sacred texts of Australia:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/aus/index.htm

Paleolithic Cave Paintings:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/nel/index.htm

Legends of the Maui (Polynesian/Hawaiian) (as recorded in 1910): http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/maui.htm

Mythology of the Maori of New Zealand (as recorded in 1854):  http://www.sacred-texts.com/pac/grey.htm

Kalevala (Finnish National Epic) 1st appeared in print early 19th c.: http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kaleva.html
Summary of Kalevala's contents:  http://virtual.finland.fi/finfo/english/kaleva7.html

Confucius:  The Great Learning 500 B. C.:  http://www.sacred-texts.com/cfu/conf2.htm

 The Song Celestial or Baghavad Gita (400 B. C. )

Individual Writers and Thanatologists:

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

Funerals, Cremation, Cemeteries, Ceremonies, etc.:

Funeral and Memorial Societiesof America  http://www.funerals.org

Funeral Consumer Guide from Federal Trade Commission:  http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/pubs/services/funeral.htm