Dealing Creatively With Death

A Manual Of Death Education And Simple Burial, 14th Edition

BY EARNEST MORGAN
This book is a small encyclopedia on death-related problems: social, emotional, philosophical and practical. It is written simply and sensitively, drawing substantially on direct experience.

Barclay House 2001 163 PP. Paper

$14.95 (in stock)

Dear Gift Of Life

A Man's Encounter With Death - Php 142

BY BRADFORD SMITH
The journal and poetry of this faithful Friend in the months before his death from cancer.

Pendle Hill 1993 38 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

The End Of Life Handbook

A Compassionate Guide To Connecting With And Caring For A Dying Loved One

BY DAVID FELDMAN AND ANDREW LASHER
This book address both the emotional and psychological issues associated with death and dying and the practical and medical realities typically dealt with at this time - unusual among titles in this subject area. The authors bring an emphasis on hope, inspiration, meaning, and human connection at the end of life to the book. As medical technology progresses and life expectancies edge upward, families are being faced with ever-more-complicated choices as death approaches. This book offers readers much-needed guidance and support for making these often difficult decisions.

New Harbinger Publications 2008 200 PP. Paper

$17.95 (in stock)

Ethical Wills

Putting Your Values On Paper, 2nd Edition

BY BARRY BAINES
Having a living will is an essential element in ensuring that the way in which you would like to spend your last days will be respected. It informs both family and doctors of your medical treatment preferences in specific situations. An ethical will is a complementary text that communicates personal values, beliefs, blessings, and advice to relatives and to future generations. It can be more meaningful to friends and family than any material possession you could bequeath to them. Together, living and ethical wills ensure that your wishes and hopes are "on the record," not to be lost, ignored, or forgotten.

Da Capo 2006 240 PP. Cloth

$15.95 (in stock)

Facing One's Own Death

BY ELIZABETH GRAY VINING
Resources for meditation in quotations and account of "good deaths." This is the author's long personal prayer at age 70.

Philadelphia YM 1994 6 PP. Paper

$1.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Final Gifts

Understanding The Special Awareness, Needs And Communications Of The Dying

BY MAGGIE CALLANAN AND PATRICIA KELLEY
"Impressive insights into the experience of dying, offered by two hospice nurses with a gift for listening. The `final gifts' of the title are the comfort and enlightenment offered by the dying to those attending them, and in return, the peace and reassurance offered to the dying by those who hear their needs. .[The authors] offer practical advice not only to involved family members but also to professional caregivers on how to recognize, understand, and respond to a dying person's messages. No lugubriousness or false cheerfulness here, but acute observations and astute advice on a difficult topic." - Kirkus Reviews

Bantam Books 1997 256 PP. Paper

$17.00 (in stock)

Funerals And Memorial Meetings

BY THE COMMITTEE ON ELDERSHIP AND OVERSIGHT OF BRITAIN YEARLY MEETING
This handbook clearly sets out tasks of funeral coordinators and people responsible for eldership and oversight, gives information on low-cost and `green' funerals, has tips on planning for a funeral and has a section for planning for one's own funeral. Includes a form at the back for one to fill out in preparation for your own death. Though some information is pointedly for British Quakers, American Friends will find much that speaks to their condition here as well.

Britain Yearly Meeting 2004 64 PP. Paper

$10.00 (in stock)

Gift Of Days

Report On An Illness - Php 364

BY MARY MORRISON
In her seventh pamphlet for Pendle Hill, at age 92, the author relates the gift of her extraordinary experience of 100 days of illness, near-death and slow recovery. Mary has since died, but has left us with this one last gift on how to see the grace of life.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2003 40 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

Grave Matters - Paperback

A Journey Through The Modern Funeral Industry To A Natural Way Of Burial

BY MARK HARRIS
Grave Matters follows families who found in "green" buriala more natural, economic, and ultimately more meaningful alternative to the tired and toxic send-off on offer at the local funeral parlor. Eschewing chemical embalming, fancy caskets, and elaborate funerals, they have embraced a range of natural options that are redefining a better way of death. Mark Harris examines this new green burial underground, leading you into natural cemeteries and domestic graveyards, taking you aboard boats from which ashes and memorial "reef balls" are cast into the sea. Appendices detail everything you need to know, from exact costs and laws to natural burial providers and their contact information.

Scribner 2008 205 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

Handbook For Mortals

Guidance For People Facing Serious Illness

BY JOANNE LYNN AND JOAN HARROLD
Handbook for Mortals is warmly addressed to all those who wish to approach the final years of life with greater awareness of what to expect and greater confidence about how to make the end of our lives a time of growth, comfort, and meaningful reflection. Written by Dr. Joanne Lynn and a team of expert physicians, this book provides equal measures of practical information and wise counsel. All practical aspects are explored, and included are moving firsthand insights into a profoundly important process, one that is increasingly kept hidden in our culture. Includes inspiring quotations from Emily Dickinson, W. H. Auden, Jane Kenyon, and others.

Oxford University Press 2001 256 PP. Paper

$21.95 (in stock)

In Beauty

A Quaker Approach To End-of-life Care - Php 355

BY KIRSTEN BACKSTROM
The author, a Friend and hospice worker, considers Quaker forms of faithfulness which are important to the process of caring for others at the end of life. She finds these forms to be important, too, in exploring and learning from death and facing one's own mortality. This is a moving essay written lovingly through stories.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2001 32 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

In God We Die

Php 385

BY WARREN OSTROM
The author looks at the prospect of our own death and dying, reminding us that we can trust the Spirit with our lives and deaths. Advances in technologies seem to take our lives out of God's hands. Opportunities or pressures to prolong our own survival and that of the people we care for sometimes lead us down paths contrary to our values and may deprive us of peaceful closure. Warren Ostrum has worked closely with the aging and dying for over two decades. He offers his deeply-considered insights on the end of life, as well as his reflections on the role of spirituality in how we face death, and guidance for finding clarity in our choices about our own final path.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 2006 36 PP. Paper

$6.50 (out of stock but can be backordered)

Lifetimes

The Beautiful Way To Explain

MELLONIE, BRYAN/ ING
A pet . . . a friend . . . or a relative dies, and it must be explained to a child. This sensitive book is a useful tool in explaining to children that death is a part of life and that, eventually, all living things reach the end of their own special lifetimes.

Random House 1983 40 PP. Blank

$14.00 (in stock)

No Death, No Fear

Comforting Wisdom For Life

BY THICH NHAT HANH
Buddhist teacher and poet Thich Nhat Hanh offered the world much-needed words of calming wisdom in his previous book, Anger. Now, in a book both timely and timeless, he tackles a subject that has been contemplated by Buddhist monks and nuns for twenty-five hundred years-and an eternal mystery that touches us all: What is death? Through Zen parables, guided meditations, and personal stories, he explodes the traditional myths of how we live and die. Even more, Thich Nhat Hanh shows us a way to live a life unfettered by fear.

Riverhead 2003 208 PP. Paper

$15.00 (out of stock but can be backordered)

No Hole In The Flame

A Story Of Love And Loss In Prose And Poetry

BY MARYHELEN SNYDER
A memoir of the author's forty-year marriage and how she coped with the sudden death of her husband. This edition contains added material, including a chapter by the author's daughter, Jennifer Zito.

2008 195 PP. Paper

$15.00 (in stock)

On Death And Dying

What The Dying Have To Teach Doctors, Nursers, Clergy, And Their Own Families

BY ELIZABETH KUBLER-ROSS
One of the most famous psychological studies of our time, this classic grew out of one of the author's interdisciplinary seminars on death. Sample interviews and conversations provide a better understanding of the effects which imminent death has on patients and their families.

Scribner 2003 284 PP. Paper

$13.95 (in stock)

On Hallowing One's Diminishments

Php 292

BY JOHN YUNGBLUT
A lifelong student of mysticism shares the experience of contemplative prayer in facing many forms of diminishment: birth defects, natural disasters, aging, and death itself.

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1990 27 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)

A Song Of Death, Our Spiritual Birth

A Quaker Way Of Dying - Php 342

BY LUCY SCREECHFIELD-MCIVER
The author traces her understanding of death as a "spiritual birth, the completion of God's work upon us."

Pendle Hill Pamphlet 1998 38 PP. Paper

$6.50 (in stock)