LITERATURE TO SUPPORT THE DYING

• The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life by Katy Butler

• Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

• Gone From My Sight: The Dying Experience by Barbara Karnes, RN

• The Needs of the Dying: A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter by David Kessler

• A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death by Dr. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger

• The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care by Angelo E. Volandes, M.D.

LITERATURE TO SUPPORT GRIEF

• Atlas of The Heart by Brené Brown

• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore, PhD

• It's OK that You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine

• Wintering by Katherine May

• The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss by Mary-Frances O'Connor, PhD

• Psalms of Lament by Ann Weems

LITERATURE TO SUPPORT A GENERAL INTEREST IN DEATH AND DYING

• From Here to Eternity by Caitlin Doughty

• Finding Peace at the End of Life: A Death Doula's Guide for Families and Caregivers by Henry Fersko-Weiss

• Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift by Steve Leader

• Advice for Future Corpses and Those Who Love Them: A Practical Perspective on Death and Dying by Sallie Tisdale

LITERATURE TO SUPPORT THE DEATH DOULA

• Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life by Megory Anderson

• Caring for the Dying: The Doula Approach to a Meaningful Death by Henry Fersko-Weiss

• Death Nesting: The Heart-Centered Practices of a Death Doula by Anne-Marie Keppel and Karen Wyatt

• Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead by Cody J. Sanders and Mikel Carl Parsons

• Holding Space: On Loving, Dying and Letting Go by Amy Wright Glenn