READING RESOURCES


BOOKS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY
  • Understanding Grief, Helping Yourself Heal, Alan Wolfelt
  • Living When A Loved One Has Died, Earl Grollman*
  • Concerning Death: A Practical Guide for the Living, Earl Grollman
  • Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child, Earl Grollman*
  • When Children Hurt, Earl Grollman
  • What Helped Me When My Loved One Died, Earl Grollman*
  • Death: The Final Stage of Growth, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
  • Living with Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
  • On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
  • Don't Take My Grief Away, Doug Manning
  • Listen to the Heart, Geeri Howe
  • Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring, Henri Nouwen
  • Living Through Mourning: Finding Comfort and Hope When a Loved One Had Died, Harriett Schiff*
  • How to Survive the Loss of a Love, Melba H. Colgrove*
  • The Mourning After: How to Manage Grief Wisely, Stanley P. Cornils
  • Understanding Mourning: A Guide for Those Who Grieve, Religion and Medicine Series of Augsburg Publishing House
ADDITIONAL READING SOURCES

  • Recovering From the Loss of a Loved One, Kathleen Fair
  • Explaining Death to Children, edited by Earl A. Grollman. With an introd. by Louise Bates Ames*
  • Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope With Losing Someone You Love, Earl A. Grollman*
  • Bereaved Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals, Earl A. Grollman*
  • On Children and Death, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
  • The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross*
WEB SITES FOR SUPPORT


The internet is a terrific reference resource with a variety of grief and support sites. Some offer support and advice, other pages provide an opportunity to anonymously memorialize loved ones and some sites are open discussions.

Here is just a sampling of what's available:

Batesville Casket Company's grief section
http://www.batesville.com

National Funeral Director's Association
http://www.nfda.org

Dr. Alan Wolfelt and his Center for Loss and Life Transition
http://www.centerforloss.com

National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/programs/death

International Order of the Golden Rule
http://www.golden-rule.com

Yahoo's grief-related index
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/death

Webster's Death, Dying and Grief Guide
http://www.katsden.com/death/index.html






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