Navigating serious illness and dying
Book Resources
Being with Dying:
Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
by Joan Halifax
Die Wise:
A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
by Stephen Jenkinson
Essentials in Hospice and Palliative Care:
A Practical Resource For Every Nurse
by Katherine Murray
In the Slender Margin:
The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
by Eve Joseph
Talking About Death Won’t Kill You:
The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations
by Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller
Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest:
7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis
by Samantha Winemaker, Dr. Hsien Seow
Being Mortal:
Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
Grief & Bereavement
Book Resources
Bearing the Unbearable:
Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief
by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
The Heart Does Break:
Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning
by Jean Baird and George Bowering
The Mourners Dance:
What We Do When People Die
by Katherine Ashenburg
Grief Ally:
Helping People You Love Cope with Death, Loss, and Grief
by Aly Bird
The Wild Edge of Sorrow:
Rituals of Renewal and the Scared Work of Grief
by Francis Weller
The Grieving Brain
The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
by Mary-Frances O'Connor
The Death of a Baby
Book Resources
An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
A Memoir
by Elizabeth McCracken
Loving Your Baby:
A Gentle and Practical Guide to Parenting Through Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Infant Death
by Shari Morash