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Helpful books, podcasts, songs, movies

Please find below a list of books, movies, and podcasts related to death and dying. This list is intended to support you along your journey. Please enjoy.

Books

  • Advice for Future Corpses and Those Who Love Them, by Sallie Tisdale

  • Awake at the Bedside: Contemplative Teachings on Palliative and End-of- Life Care, by Koshin Paley Ellison

  • African American Grief by Paul C Rosenblatt

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

  • Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

  • Choosing To Die: A Personal Story: Elective Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) in the Face of Degenerative Disease by Phyllis Shacter

  • Death is but a Dream - Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End by Christopher Kerr, MD, PhD

  • Die Wise, by Stephen Jenkinson

  • Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler

  • Healing Through the Dark Emotions: The wisdom of grief, fear, and despair by Miriam Greenspan

  • How We Live is How We Die by Pema Chandra

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

  • Marrow by Elizabeth Lesser

  • On Grief and Grieving by Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler

  • Sacred Dying: Creating rituals for embracing the end of life by Megory Anderson

  • Share the Care: How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who is Seriously Ill by Cappy Capossela & Shelia Warnock

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

  • The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski

  • The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martín Prechtel

  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow, by Francis Weller

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalinithi

  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

  • Who Dies by Stephen and Ondrea Levine

  • With Our Own Hands: A Guidebook to Ritual Blessing of the Dead by Ellen Hufschmidt

Documentaries

  • An Honest Death: A Palliative Care Doctor’s Final Days

  • A Will for the Woods (green burial and after death care at home) Bury Me At Taylor Hollow

  • Dying Wish (VSED - Voluntary Stopping Eating & Drinking)

  • End Game

  • Extremis

  • Griefwalker – profiles Stephen Jenkinson

  • Speaking Grief

  • Zen and the Art of Dying - profiles Zenith Virago

  • A Good Death

Movies

  • A Walk to Remember

  • Charlie St. Cloud

  • City of Angels

  • Death at a Funeral

  • Five Feet Apart

  • Hereafter

  • Lullaby

  • Me Before You

  • My Sister's Keeper

  • My Girl

  • Now Is Good

  • Old Yeller

  • P.S. I Love You

  • Patch Adams

  • Rabbit Hole

  • Reign Over Me

  • The Bucket List

  • The Farewell

  • The Fault in Our Stars

  • The Life of Death

  • The Notebook

  • The Starling

  • Simon Burch

  • Where the Red Fern Grows

Podcasts

  • A Path Home

  • Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End Best Life, Best Death

  • Death Goes Digital

  • Death: The Podcast

  • Dying Kindness

  • Dying Matters: Let's talk about it

  • End of Life University

  • Everything Happens

  • Good GriefGrief Out Loud

  • IANDS NDE Radio

  • Kaddish: A Podcast On Death and Mourning

  • Losing A Child: Always Andy's Mom

  • Living With Hospice

  • NPR: The End of Life

  • Psychology of Aging

  • Refuge In Grief

  • TED Radio Hour: Rethinking Death

  • Terrible, Thanks for Asking

  • The Art of Dying Well

  • The Death Dialogues Project

  • The What’s Your Grief Podcast

  • When You Die

Children's Movies

  • Clouds

  • Coco

  • Soul

  • Marley and Me

  • Bridge To Terabithia

  • Up

  • Inside out

Children's Books

  • Badger’s Parting Gifts by Susan Varley

  • How do you Care for A Very Sick Bear? by Vanessa Bayer

  • Perfectly Imperfect Family by Amie Lands

  • Since My Brother Died/Desde Que Murio Mi Hermano by Marisol Munoz-Kiehne

  • Something Very Sad Happened: A Toddler’s Guide to Understanding Death by Bonnie Zucker

  • Stay: A Girl, a Dog, a Bucket List by Kate Klise

  • The Angel with the Golden Glow: A Family’s Journey Through Loss and Healing by Elissa Al-Chokhacy

  • The Fall of Freddy the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages by Leo Buscaglia

  • The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

  • The Invisible String by Patrice Karst

  • The Little Soul and the Sun: A Children’s Parable by Neale Donal Walsch and Frank Riccio

  • The Memory Box: A Book About Grief by Joanna Rowland The Memory Tree by Britta Teckentrup

  • The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfield

  • The Rainbow Bridge: A Visit to a Pet Paradise by Andrian Raeside