Resources
- Grief ·
The Second Year After a Loved One’s Death
Jackson Rainer was a psychology professor for 25 years, researching grief and bereavement. All the while, he struggled with his wife’s genetic cancer syndrome which…
- Bookshelf ·
What Does it Feel Like to Die?
Author Jennie Dear’s book “What Does It Feel Like to Die?: Inspiring New Insights into the Experience of Dying” is a touching and compassionate book…
- Grief ·
No casket, no cost: Tennesseans go back to ‘natural’ burial
Natural Burial is the most eco-conscious and low-cost burial option. In a societal environment where the commercialized, disconnected process of death has become the norm,…
- Grief ·
Grief is Healing In Motion
In this excerpt from Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, Toko-pa Turner explores how grief is more than an expression of pain. Grief is our inner acknowledgement…
- Family ·
Preparing Children to Visit Someone Who is Dying
Death and Dying can be scary subjects, particularly for kids. But they don’t have to be. Honesty is the best way to prepare children when…
- Grief ·
Preserving Memories After Someone Has Died
Collecting and organizing old photographs can help during a time of grieving. Talk Death has some ideas to help organize that overwhelming pile of photos…
- End of Life Preparation ·
The Final Act: How We Can Learn to Face Our Death With Clarity and Compassion
Playwright, director, and author Karen Malpede makes a compelling call for us to embrace the important conversation and ask the important questions regarding death as…
- End of Life Care ·
Faces of palliative care
Words like “hospice” and “palliative care” are sometimes used interchangeably, but they don’t refer to the same things. Hospice is a type of care that…
- Grief ·
The audio feature Death: A Five-Part Series by the Nour Foundation
The Nour Foundation, which operates on special consultative status to the United Nations Economic and Social Council as a public charitable and nongovernmental organization, has…
- Bookshelf ·
Unforgettable: A Son, A Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime
While NPR’s Scott Simon sat with his 84-year-old mother who was dying in the intensive care unit of a Chicago hospital, he sent out a…
