Resources

Websites:

www.upaya.org Excellent resources for meditation techniques as well as resources for dying people and their caregivers.
www.dyingwell.org This is the site for the highly respected palliative care phycisian Ira Byock. His articles are available as well as links to further resources.
www.good-grief.org One of the finest group bereavement organization for children. There is no charge for these services. They are located in Summit, NJ.
www.uslivingwillregistry.com Information of what advanced directives are and how they work. This site offers the ability to register your living will on-line. Great advantages here for access and availability of the essential documents.
www.growthhouse.org Resources on every aspect of compassionate care for dying people
www.cancer.org Very practical and down to earth coverage of issues from insurance benefits to emotional support.
www.painfoundation.org Run by some of the top physicians and nurses in the field this site directly addresses issues of dealing with vs. living with pain.
www.griefworksbc.com Ways of coping with bereavement from a variety of family relations.

The Nature of Opportunity at the End of Life by Ira Byock, MD. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 237-252, May 1996 Available on dyingwell.org.
Spritiual Care of the Dying Patient by Michael Kearney, MD and Balfour Mount, CM OQ MD. In Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine Eds. Harvey M. Chochinov and William Breitbart
Learning to Die by Brother David Steindl-Rast Order of St. Benidict. This is Brother David’s meditation on what it means to live fully no matter what phase of life we are in. Available on www.gratefulness.org

Final gifts: Understanding the special awareness, needs and communications of the dying. Maggie Callanan, and Patricia Kelley are nurses who have cared lovingly for the dying for many years. Their understanding and expression of what happens at the end of life is inspiring.
Being with dying. Roshi Joan Halifax is a renown d leader in the field of compassionate end of life care. Her book is a great contribution to our understanding and care of dying people.
Healing into life and death. Stephen Levine has been leading the dying conscious movement for three decades. These books are foundational as well as providing hope and deep love to what happens at the end of our lives.
Who dies? An investigation of conscious living and conscious dying. Stephen Levine as above.
How we die. Sherwin Nuland MD. tells his experience in some of the most graphic terms. This is an excellent resource for the factual understanding and historical context for end of life.
The Tibetan book of living and dying. Soyal Rimpoche leads us through the spiritual tradition practiced in Tibet for many centuries yet completely usable in our everyday life.
The grace in dying: How we are transformed spiritually as we die. Kathleen Dowling Singh writes of our inner experience at end of life.
The death of Ivan Illyich and other stories. Leo Tolstoy gives us the finest fictional writing on the awakening of a man as he approaches the end of his life.