Resources

Books/Pamphlets

Barbara Karnes, RN

Barbra’s 3 booklets provides easy, concise facts of the dying experiences.

  • The Final Act of Living
  • Gone From My Sight, The Dying Experience
  • The Eleventh Hour, A Caring Guide for the Hours to Minutes Before Death

Die Wise, Stephen Jenkins

Steve Jenkin’s has excellent observations of the process of death

Death is But a Dream, Christopher Kerr & Carine Mardorossian

The authors discuss an alternate approach to looking at death.

Nurturing Touch for the Dying: A Guide Book, Elizabeth Erbrecht, LMFT

Elizabeth was one of our instructors in our Death Doula training. She recommends when and when not to touch dying people.

Grief’s Journey, A Companion for Friends Who Mourn, Hal L. Edwards

Dr. Edwards reveals his own story. He discusses techniques for grief healing.

A Matter of Death and Life , Irvin D. Yalom and Marilyn Yalom

A year long journey of a married couple facing illness and eventually death of one and how they chose to live their lives.  This book is a beautifully written account of how the couple faced death and how one went on without the other.

Healing Our Losses, Jack Miller, PhD

A journal for working through grief.  This book is used in our Healing Losses group.

A Year to Live, Stephen Levine

How to live this year as if it were your last.  This book used in our course on Make Peace with Your Life.

The Good Death: An Exploration Of Dying In America, Ann Neumann

Written by a Hospice Volunteer and author, Ann  looks at the history of dying in America.  She answers the question “what makes a good death?”  Is death a medical experience or a human experience?

Briefly Perfectly Human, Alua Arthur

“Making An Authentic Life By Getting Real About The End”  The book is by our teacher and mentor.  Alua shares her journey of grief and loss and the path that opened up for her in becoming a death doula. She gives detailed accounts of her experiences doing the work of a Death Doula.

Documentaries/Movies

Netflix documentary: “Surviving Death”

What happens after we die? This docuseries explores personal stories and research on near-death experiences, reincarnation and paranormal phenomena.