Resources for Adults
Caring for Someone Who is Dying:
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 Palliative Care by Katherine Murray
In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying by Eve Joseph
Nearing the End of Life: A Guide for Relatives and Friends of the Dying, online resource by Sue Brayne and Dr. Peter Fenwick
Dying, Death & Grief:
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying by Eve Joseph
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
LivingMyCulture by Canadian Virtual Hospice
“Modern Grief: Confronting My Husband’s Digital Ghosts – One Email at a Time” by Nancy Westaway
MyGrief.Ca, an online grief tool by Canadian Virtual Hospice
“What it Means to ‘Hold Space’ for People Plus 8 Tips on How to do it Well” by Heather Plett