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How Death Doulas Ease the Final Transition

By Cynthia Greenlee — 2019

End-of-life caregiving is an ancient practice that’s now re-emerging in the death positivity movement, which urges a shift in thinking about death as natural and not traumatic.

Read on www.yesmagazine.org

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The Art of Showing Up: How to Be There for Yourself and Your People

If you’re having trouble connecting with those around you, know that you’re not the only one. Adult friendships are tricky!!! Part manifesto, part guide, The Art of Showing Up is soul medicine for our modern, tech-mediated age.

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Rachel Wilkerson Miller
2020
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101 Ways You Can Help: How to Offer Comfort and Support to Those Who Are Grieving

With 101 quick and concrete suggestions you can use immediately, 101 Ways You Can Help offers practical information on the dos and don'ts of handling grief and loss.

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Liz Aleshire
2009
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The Art of Comforting: What to Say and Do for People in Distress

We live in an increasingly "virtual" world in which it can be tempting to skip making that true, human connection with someone in pain. Even though our thoughts might be with them, we lack the confidence to reach out, worrying that we will say or do the "wrong" thing.

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Val Walker
2010
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Living at the End of Life: A Hospice Nurse Addresses the Most Common Questions

This warm and informative resource on hospice and other end-of-life care options now gets an update.

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Karen Whitley Bell
2018
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Death Positivity: Dealing with Grief Differently | NBC Left Field

There’s a growing death positivity movement, which aims to open up conversations on grief and death and argues that discussing the end of life can improve the way we live.

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2018
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A Mortician on What It Means to Be Death Positive

Ask a Mortician’s Caitlin Doughty tells TFD what it means to be “death positive,” plus other misconceptions about a healthy way to deal with death.

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2020
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The Craft of Dying: The Modern Face of Death (40th Anniversary Edition)

Much of today’s literature on end-of-life issues overlooks the importance of 1970s social movements in shaping our understanding of death, dying, and the dead body. This anniversary edition of Lyn Lofland’s The Craft of Dying begins to repair this omission.

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Lyn H. Lofland
2019
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The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America

Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States. When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

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Ann Neumann
2017
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The Art of Death Midwifery: An Introduction and Beginner’s Guide

Winner of the 2009 USA Best Books Award and the 2010 International Book Award, The Art of Death Midwifery: An Introduction and Beginner's Guide, by ordained interfaith minister Joellyn St.

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Joellyn St. Pierre
2009
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Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

Everyone has questions about death. In Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?, best-selling author and mortician Caitlin Doughty answers the most intriguing questions she’s ever received about what happens to our bodies when we die.

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Caitlin Doughty
2020
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