Resources

BUDDHIST & OTHER CONTEMPLATIVE TRADITIONS

POETRY

DEATH & DYING

• The Hour of Our Death by Philippe Aries
• The Gifts of the Body by Rebecca Brown
• Coming Home: A Guide to Dying at Home with Dignity by Deborah Duda
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation Through Hearing in the Bardo by Francesca Fremantle and Chogyam Trungpa 
• Letters to a Dying Friend by Anton Grosz
• Learning to Say Goodbye: When a Parent Dies by Eda Le Shan 
• Who Dies? An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen Levine 
• Healing into Life and Death by Stephen Levine
• Facing Death and Finding Hope: A Guide to the Emotional and Spiritual Care of the Dying by Christine Longaker 
• How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Newland
• Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche 
• Grace and Grit by Ken Wilber
• The Death of Ivan Ilich by Leo Tolstoy
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion 
• The Zen of Living and Dying: A Practical and Spiritual Guide by Philip Kapleau
• THE MAJESTY OF YOUR LOVING: A Couple's Journey Through Alzheimer's by Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle
• Sacred Passage: How to Provide Fearless, Compassionate Care of the Dying, by Margaret Coberly
Being with Dying by Joan Halifax
Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty
Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying by Ram Das