Death/Dying/Grief/Bereavement

Websites

www.adec.org - Association for Death Education and Counseling:  Referral programs, professional development, resources, and more.

www.americanhospice.org - American Hospice Foundation: Training programs, public education, publications, and free articles about hospice and grief.

www.enterthefreudianslip.com/music_therapy_and_grief_and_loss.htm Grief and Loss and Music Therapy:  Examines the power of using popular music, something people already listen to, in therapy with grief and loss and more.  Includes examples of therapeutic messages in popular music as well as original music by Freudian Slip, therapeutic rock band.

www.griefnet.org - GriefNet:  Has email support groups.

www.GrievingChild.org - The Dougy Center for Grieving Children:  Information for supporting grieving children, trainings, publications.

www.growthhouse.org - Growth House:  Directory of Internet resources for those with life-threatening illness and end-of-life care.

www.hospice-cares.com - Hospice Hands:  Hospice related information with a global, multicultural focus.

www.hospicefoundation.org - Hospice Foundation of America

www.iands.org - International Association for Near Death Studies

www.lastacts.org - Last Acts, a national coalition to improve care and caring at the end of life:  Dedicated to bringing death related issues out into the open and to foster better ways to care for the dying.

www.npr.org/programs/death - National Public Radio:  The End of Life - Exploring Death in America:  Transcripts of the original braodcasts, resources, and a place to tell your own story.

www.webhealing.com - Tom Golden's Web Healing Site:  Links to death/dying sites, information on gender differences in the grief process.


Books

Brock, Ira, M.D.,
Dying Well:  Peace and Possibilites at the End of Life.

Ericsson, Stephanie. 
Companion Through the Darkness:  Inner Dialogues on Grief.

Fitzgerald, Helen. 
The Mourning Handbook.

Grollman, Earl. 
Bereaved Children and Teens:  A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals.

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth. 
Death:  The Final Stage of Growth.

Kubler-Ross, Elisabeth. 
On Children and Death.

Levine, Stephen. 
Meetings at the Edge:  Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed.

Lukas, Christopher and Henry M. Seiden. 
Silent Grief:  Living in the Wake of Suicide.

Smith, Douglas C. 
Caregiving:  Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul.