Resources

Crossings - An organization that deals with and supports caring for our own at death.  Beth Knox 301-593-5451 http://www.Crossings.net  (site for training manual: "Crossings: Caring for Our Own at Death")


Manual & Guide/Pennsylvania: "When a Loved One Dies, Things You Should
   Know" by Penny & Arian  pennyrho@aol.com


www.FinalPassages.org    (Green and Loving Family-Directed Home funerals)


www.HomeFuneralManual.org    (site of Undertaken with Love: a Home Funeral Guide for Congregations and Communities)


www.funeralplan.com/funeralplan/consumer/statelaw.html  (state by state
   funeral laws)


www.Municode.com   (municipal laws)

 

Videos

"A Family Undertaking - Home Funerals in America," a POV PBS Documentary by Elizabeth Webstrate, Fanlight Productions, 1-800-937-4113, info@fanlight.com

"Passing Through Our hands," funeral care guide,   www.PassingThroughOurHands.com

 

Books


"Grave Matters: A Journey through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial" by Mark Harris

"Caring for the Dead - Your Final Act of Love" by Lisa Carlson

"Dealing Creatively With Death - A Manual of Death Education & Simple Burial" by Ernest Morgan

"The Natural Death Handbook" by Josefine Speyer & Stephanie Wienrich and "The New Natural Death Handbook" by Nicholas Albery & Stephanie Wienrich              

"Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, & Communications of the Dying "  by Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley

"Living Into Dying: A Journal of Spiritual and Practical Deathcare for Family and Community" by Nancy Jewel Poer

"Talking About Death Won't Kill You" by Virginia Morris

"Sacred Dying - Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life" by Megory Anderson

"Remembering Well: Rituals for Celebrating Life and Mourning Death" by Sarah York

"Final Passage" by Barbara Harris Whitfield

"Intimate Death" by Marie De Hennezel

"Love Lives On" by Louise Lagrand

"The Final Crossing" by Scott Eberle

"Dying Well" by Ira Byock

"The Four Things That Matter Most" by Ira Byock

 


A Partial List of Books by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross:


   "On Death and Dying"

   "On Children and Death"

   "On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five   

        Stages of Loss  (with David Kessler)

    "Life Lessons"   (with David Kessler & E. Kessler)

   "Tunnel of Light: Essential Insights on Living and Dying"

   "Remember the Secret"  

   "The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and dying"   (with Todd Gold)



 


 


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