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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross: On Death and Dying (Scribner Classics)
His Holiness the Dalai Lama: Mind of Clear Light: Advice on Living Well and Dying Consciously
John Swinton: Living Well and Dying Faithfully: Christian Practices for End-of-Life Care
Jeanne Fitzpatrick: A Better Way of Dying: How to Make the Best Choices at the End of Life
Joy Meredith: My Last Wishes...: A Journal of Life, Love, Laughs, & a Few Final Notes
A useful planning journal to help you think through and share your personal end-of-life wishes you'd like your family and friends to know.
Kenneth V. Iserson: Death to Dust: What Happens to Dead Bodies?
Lisa Takeuchi Cullen: Remember Me: A Lively Tour of the New American Way of Death
Mark Harris: Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
Sherwin B. Nuland: How We Die: Reflections of Life's Final Chapter
Sue Bailey and Carmen Flowers: Grave Expectations: Planning the End Like There's No Tomorrow
Thomas Long: Accompany Them with Singing--The Christian Funeral
Thomas Lynch: The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
Thomas Lynch: Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality
Tim Matson: Round-Trip to Deadsville: A Year in the Funeral Underground
Tom Jokinen: Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training
Several years before my mother was diagnosed with cancer she met Lucy Basler and attended a conference on home funerals. She thought the whole concept was great. Later she became sick and together with my father she planned a home funeral with Lucy Basler. Things got a little complicated at the end and my mother passed away in the hospice room of a local hospital instead of at home. My father and I were pleased though, that the local funeral home worked with us and we were able to still have a funeral for my mother that was close to what she wanted. Lucy Basler was flexible, calm, comforting, and sensitive throughout the entire process. My father was happy with how simple and easy the process was. In the midst of all of that emotional and physical exhaustion, it was a relief to have Lucy available. Her guidance really helped us transition through one of life's most difficult times.
Posted by: Sarah Behm | Mar 23, 2011 at 10:17 AM