Hospice and Spiritual Care Bibliography

These are all recommended reads in the field of hospice, spiritual caregiving and palliative care. We hope to have most of the books on this list reviewed soon

Final Gifts - Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley, Bantam Books 1997

Living in the Light of Death; On the Art of Being Truly Alive - Larry Rosenberg, Shambala Books 2000

Living With the End in Mind by- Erin Tierney Kramp and Douglas H. Kramp, Three Rivers Press, NY  1998

Living in the Face of Death, the Tibetan Tradition - Glenn Mullin, Snow Lion Publications, Ithaca, NY 1998 238 pp

Lessons from the Dying - Rodney B. Smith, Wisdom Publications, Somerville, MA, 1998

The Woman's Book of Dreams: Dreaming as a Spiritual Practice by Connie Kaplan foreword by Jamie Sams

Death and Eastern Thought - Frederick Holck, ed. NY:Abingdon Press,1974

The Wheel of Life Elisabeth Kubler-Ross 286 pp. Hardcover, $22.00, 1997, ISBN: 0-684-19361-2, Scribner

Facing Death and Finding Hope - Christine Longaker,  Doubleday/Random House 1997

The Pattern (scroll down page) by Lynnclaire Dennis

The Undiscovered Country - Exploring the Promise of Death (scroll down page) by Eknath Easwaran

Reincarnation: A Critical Examination (scroll down page) by Paul Edwards

Beyond the Ashes: Cases of Reincarnation from the Holocaust (scroll down page) by Rabbi Yonassan Gershom

My Memory Book - A Journal for Grieving Children by Gretchen Gaines-Lane

Graceful Exits; How Great Beings Die - Sushila Blackman, Weatherhill 1997

Who Dies? - Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Anchor Books,1989

Advice on Dying and Living a Better Life - Dalai Lama, Atria Books 2002

A Midwife Through the Dying Process - Timothy Quill, Johns Hopkins Press 1996

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying - Sogyal Rinpoche, Harper San Francisco 1994

Reincarnation, An East West Anthology - Josph Head and S.L. Cranston, Theosophical Publishing House 1961

Luminous Emptiness; Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Francesca Freemantle, Shambala Publishers 2003

Angels Healing Journey by E.J. Gold

The Beginners Guide for the Recently Deceased; A Comprehensive Travel Guide to the Only Inevitable Destination - David Staume, Llewellyn Publications 2004

In the Light of Death; Spiritual Insight to Help you Live with Death and Bereavement - Timothy Freke, Barrons 2002

The Dying Time; Practical Wisdom for the Dying and Their Caregivers - Joan Furman and David McNabb bell Tower Press 1997

Graceful Exits; How Great Beings Die - Sushila Blackman, Weatherhill 1997

Books of the Dead; Manuals for Living and Dying - Stansilav Grof, Thames and Hudson 1994

Beyond Death; The Gates of Consciousness - Stanislav and Christine Grof, Thames and Hudson 1980

Death; A Users Guide - Tom Hickman, Delta Trade Paperbacks 2002

The Bardo Guidebook - Choki Nyima Rinpoche, Rangjung Yeshe Publications 1991

Deathing; An Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments of Life - Anya Foos Graber, Nicolas-Hays Inc.(Samuel Weiser) 1989

The Meaning of Death - Edited by Herman Feifel, McGraw Hill 1959

The Tibetan Book of the Dead - translated by Robert Thurman, Bantam 1994

Sacred Passage; How to Provide Fearless, Compassionate Care for the Dying - Margaret Coberly, Shambala 2002

Caring for Patients at the End of Life; Facing and Uncertain Future Together - Timothy Quill, Oxford University Press 2001

Spirituality in Patient Care; Why, How, When, and What - Harold Koenig, M.D., Templeton Foundation Press, 2003

The Hour of Our Death - Philip Aries

Easy Death - Da Free John

The Original Handbook for the Recently Deceased - Claude Needham, Gateways Publishers

A Very Easy Death - Simon Debeauvoir

Prayer is Good Medicine - Larry Dossey. San Francisco; Harper SF 1996

The Meaning of Death - Edited by Herman Feifel, McGraw Hill 1959

Deathing; An Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments of Life - Anya Foos Graber, Nicolas-Hays Inc.(Samuel Weiser) 1989

Luminous Emptiness; Understanding the Tibetan Book of the Dead - Francesca Freemantle, Shambala Publishers 2003

In the Light of Death; Spiritual Insight to Help you Live with Death and Bereavement - Timothy Freke, Barrons 2002

The Dying Time; Practical Wisdom for the Dying and Their Caregivers - Joan Furman and David McNabb Bell Tower Press 1997

Books of the Dead; Manuals for Living and Dying - Stansilav Grof, Thames and Hudson 1994

Beyond Death; The Gates of Consciousness - Stanislav and Christine Grof, Thames and Hudson 1980

Concerning Death - Ira Grollman

Death; A Users Guide - Tom Hickman, Delta Trade Paperbacks 2002

Spirituality in Patient Care; Why, How, When, and What - Harold Koenig, M.D., Templeton Foundation Press, 2003

The American Way of Death - Mitford

Death and a Caring Community - Larry Richards