Resources

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Books

  • Walking Each Other Home

    by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush

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  • The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us about Living Fully

    By Frank Ostaseski

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  • Dying to Be Me

    by Anita Moorjani

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Articles

    1. Why writing a will and planning for your death is a 'lifetime gift' to loved ones: npr.org

    2. Rewriting the Narrative Around Death: My Death Plan’s Mission to Redefine Legacy: usatoday.com

    1. Estate Planning: 16 Things to Do Before You Die: investopedia.com

    2. What to Do When a Loved One Dies: aarp.org

    3. Getting Your Affairs in Order Checklist- Documents to Prepare for the Future: nia.nih.org

    1. Medical Aid in Dying: MAiD

    2. Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking: VSED

    3. Hospice Care: health.harvard.edu

    4. Palliative Care: my.clevelandclinic.org

    1. How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal: npr.org

    2. Grief: psychologytoday.com

    3. 5 stages of grief: Coping with the loss of a loved one: health.harvard.edu

    4. Coping with Grief After a Sudden or Unexpected Death: hr.jhu.edu

Videos

Beautiful, Mad Art Until the End

“As she was dying, 42-year-old Seattle artist Briar Bates directed a silly, joyful water ballet — performed in the kiddie pool at Volunteer Park after her death and starring all of her friends. (Lauren Frohne & Erika Schultz / The Seattle Times)”

More To Dying Than Meets the Eye

A TEDx talk by Martha Atkins about “deathbed phenomena that can bring comfort to patients and caregivers if those involved know what they are experiencing.”

A 97 year old faces his own death

“Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality began to haunt him, and he had to rethink everything.”