Resources

We are not alone in our journey towards death. We are not the first to experience heartbreak and grief over a loss. Let us lean on those who have come before us to show us how to walk the path.

Whatever is on your heart, I hope something in this small collection can help.

- “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” by Atul Gawande
- “Meetings at the Edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed” by Stephen Levine
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Thirst: Poems by Mary Oliver
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
- “On Being” podcast Death and Dying playlist (16 episodes on losing loved ones, making peace with terminal illness, and living with grief)
- The Pet Loss Companion podcast (because our beloved animal companions leave a special void when they die)
- You’re Going to Die podcast (a blunt title, but a beautiful creative exploration of love, mortality, and meaning with a wonderfully diverse group of guests)
- FreeWill - simple online resource to compile your last will and testament
- Advanced Directives by U.S. State
- Denver Hospice Grief Center (including Footprints Children’s Grief Center for grievers 3-17)
- Suicide Bereavement Support Groups