Booklist
Here are some of the books that we recommend. We have some of them in stock; please contact us to check availability and to order books.
Healing into Dying
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to
Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Family (Scribner, 2014)
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, Death: The Final Stage of Growth
(Touchstone, 1997)
- Mhalette and Carmella B’Hahn, Benjaya’s Gifts: An Astonishing True Life
Drama Highlighting the Unlimited Power of the Spirit (Hazelwood Press,
1996) (a true, inspirational account of
loss)
- Carmella B’Hahn, Mourning Has Broken: Learning from the Wisdom of Adversity (Crucible,
2002) (help in bereavement)
- Stephen Levine, A Year to Live (Crown Publications,1997)
- Megory Anderson, Sacred Dying:
Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life (Marlowe & Co, 2003)(being
with the dying - true accounts)
- Iona Heath, Matters
of Life and Death: Key Writings (Radcliffe
Publishing, 2007)(a doctor's view)
- Phyllida Anam-Aire, A Celtic
Book of Dying: Watching with the Dying, Travelling with the Dead (Findhorn
Press Ltd, 2005) (letting go/being with
the dying)
- Peter and Elizabeth Fenwick, The Art of Dying (Continuum, 2008)
- Jan Hatanaka, The Choice: Finding
Life in the Face of Adversity - Six Stories from a Therapist's Casebook (BPS
Books, 2011)
- Christopher Day, (My) Dying is Fun: A Comedy of Disabled Misadventures (Trafford Publishing, 2007)
- Jonathan Stedall, Where on Earth is Heaven? (Hawthorn Press, 2009) (a book of
spiritual exploration – see particularly the chapter on dying and becoming)
- Ram Dass, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying (Riverhead Books,
2001)
- Anya Foos-Graber, Deathing: An Intelligent Alternative for the Final Moments in Life (Sri
Sathya Sai Towers Pvt Ltd, 1990)
- Marie De Hennezel, Intimate Death: How the Dying Teach Us to Live (Little, Brown,
1997), re-titled Seize the Day
(Macmillan, 2012)
- Felicity Warner, A Safe Journey Home: A Simple Guide to Achieving a Peaceful Death (Hay
House UK, 2011)
- Megan Young & Merrilyn Thomas, Wordsmith: The Gift of a Soul (Medlar
Tree Publishing, 2013)
- Sally Cline, Lifting the Taboo: Women, Death and Dying (Abacus, 1996)
- Margaret Hannah, Humanising Healthcare (International Futures Forum, 2014)
- Atul Gawande, Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End (Wellcome Collection, 2014)
- Satish Modi, In Love with Death: How Do We Live Our Life With Meaning? (Birlinn, 2014)
- Stephanie Wienrich and Josefine Speyer,
The Natural Death Handbook (Rider,
2003) (help and
advice on all aspects of death and dying in depth), and more recently The Natural Death Handbook 5 (2012), obtainable from the Natural Death Centre (this includes all the latest information and some superb essays)
- Barry Albin Dyer, Don’t Drop the Coffin!: Memoirs of an Undertaker (Hodder &
Stoughton Ltd, 2003)
- Barry Albin Dyer, Final Departures (Hodder
& Stoughton, 2004) (death traditions from around the world encountered by
Barry)
- Julia Hailes, The New Green Consumer Guide (Simon & Schuster, 2007) (a section on Green burials)
- Sue Gill and John Fox, The Dead Good Funerals Book (Engineers of the Imagination, 1996) (help and advice in depth)
- Jean Francis, Time to Go: Practical Celebrations for the Final Milestone (iUniverse, Inc, 2004) (alternative funerals)
- Jean Francis, Finishing Touches: 60+ Ways to Enrich a Funeral (The Milestone Publishing Company, 2011)
- Jean Francis, Ashes and Memorials: 60+ Ways to be Remembered (2014) available from www.pre-needfuneralplanning.co.uk)
- Jane Morrell and Simon Smith, We Need to Talk About the Funeral: 101 Practical Ways to Commemorate and Celebrate a Life (Alphabet & Image Ltd, 2006) (a general introduction, full of easily accessible information)
- Charles Cowling, The Good Funeral Guide, (Continuum, 2010)
- Tony Walter, Funerals and How to Improve Them (Hodder & Stoughton Religious, 1990)
- Sheila Hancock, The Two of Us: My Life with John Thaw (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2005
- Gloria Hunniford, Always with You: Facing Life After Loss (Hodder Paperbacks, 2009)
- Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking (Harper Perennial, 2006) (the death
of her husband and daughter, told with great honesty)
- Dorothy S. Becvar, In the Presence of Grief: Helping Family Members Resolve Death, Dying
and Bereavement Issues (Guilford Press,
2003)
- James Van Praagh, Healing Grief: Reclaiming
Life after Any Loss (Piatkus,2011) (a spiritual view of grief)
- Gillie Bolton (Ed.), Dying, Bereavement and the Healing Arts (Jessica Kingsley
Publishers, 2007) (a series of essays illustrating palliative care)
- Louis LaGrand, Love Lives On: Learning from the Extraordinary Encounters of the
Bereaved (Berkley Publishing, 2006)
- Frances Banks, Frontiers
of Revelation: An Empirical Study in the Psychology of Psychic and Spiritual
Experience (Parrish, 1962)
- Jim Crace, Being Dead (Picador, 2013) (looking at how a body returns to the earth)
Books for Young Adults
- Jamie Oliver, Get Dead - You've Got to Laugh (The Friday Project Limited, 2006) (also highly suitable for older children - facts, figures and interviews concerning death)
- Susan Varley, Badger’s Parting Gifts (Magi Publications, 1997) (for young children)
- Margery Williams, The Velveteen Rabbit (Heritage, 2012) (for young
children)
- Judith Kerr, Goodbye Mog (HarperCollins, 2003) (for young children)
- Doris Stickney, Water Bugs and Dragonflies: Explaining Death to Young Children (The Pilgrim
Press, 2004)
- Janine Amos, Death (Separations) (Cherrytree Books, 2007) (for slightly older children)
- Michael Rosen, Sad Book (Walker, 2011) (suitable for all)
- Dick Bruna, Dear Grandma Bunny (Ted Smart, 2006)
- Trevor Romain, What On Earth Do You Do When Somebody Dies? (ReadHowYouWant, 2012)
There are many other lovely books for children and Winston's Wish can help at winstonswish.org.uk.
There is a comprehensive booklist in The Natural Death Handbook 5; and The Natural Death Centre also publishes an excellent e-magazine, more to death.
