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
Visit our wonderful new BLOG for more reviews and commentary. 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 Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity As Therapy Edited by Sandra L. Bertman Sacred Passage; How to Provide Fearless, Compassionate Care for the Dying - Margaret Coberly, Shambala 2002 Bereavement - Counseling the Grieving Throughout the Lifecycle by David Crenshaw, Ph.D Awakening the Buddha Within, Tibetan Wisdom for the Western World Lama Surya Das The American Book of the Dead by EJ Gold 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 Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with The Dalai Lama edited and narrated by Francisco Varela, Ph.D. 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 The Death of Death: Resurrection and Immortality in Jewish Thought (scroll down page) by Neil Gillman My Memory Book - A Journal for Grieving Children (scroll down page) 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 |
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