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Aboriginal

Advanced care planning / Decision making

Caregiver and caregiving

Children - About

Children - For

Communication

Complementary therapies

Culture

Death and dying

Decision making - see Advanced care planning

Diseases

Education

Emotions

Ethics

Family

Financial considerations

Finding health information

Funerals and memorials

Government/group reports

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

International

Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Multicultural - see Culture

Nutrition - see Symptoms - Lack of appetite / weight loss

Personal stories

Persons with disabilities

Quality of life

Sexuality

Spirituality

Books

African American Grief
African American Grief carefully sorts out what is universal in grief, what is individual difference, and what is cultural. read more...

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Using a Buddhist approach to death, the author affirms that we can open and contact our inner strength, and that we can help... read more...

Caring For Dying People of Different Faiths
This book provides information about the beliefs, customs and practices of the world's major religions, with particular regard... read more...

Chasing Daylight: How My Forthcoming DeathTransformed My Life
After his inoperable brain cancer was diagnosed in May, Eugene O'Kelly, the 53-year-old American chief executive of the accounting... read more...

Close to the Bone: Life-Threatening Illness and the Search for Meaning
This book follows patients and their loved ones on a path that brings them into a kind of underworld of experience that has... read more...

Death and Bereavement Across Cultures
Written by international authors, this book describes the rituals and beliefs of major world religions, explains their psychological... read more...

Death: The Final Stage of Growth
Dr. Kubler-Ross provides answers to questions about Death and dying. She includes the viewpoints of ministers, rabbis, doctors,... read more...

Dying: A Book of Comfort
More than 40 writers, thinkers, and religious figures from various faiths speak on the nature of dying and provide words... read more...

Facing Death: A Companion in Words and Images
Individuals facing death may not know how to express the range of emotions, questions, and discoveries they experience. At... read more...

A Few Months to Live
A Few Months to Live describes what dying is like from the perspectives of nine terminally ill individuals and their caregivers. read more...