- Death Conversation ·
Ask Them to Tell You Their Stories
In the presence of tragedy, we often say “I can’t imagine”. In these days…
- Grief ·
Understanding grief: Symptoms, Stages, and Coping
Grief is a natural response to loss, yet can still be difficult to understand.…
- Death Community ·
Millennials Are Feeling Their Mortality
It isn’t just the senior population that have their last wishes recorded. As the…
- Death Community ·
COPE-ing with the Loss of a Child
The COPE Foundations was formed by and for parents dealing with the loss of…
Buried at Sea
Interested in being buried at sea? Full body sea burials are eco-friendly and affordable.…
- Death Culture ·
How Our Brains Shield us from Mortal Truth
Researchers say our brains do their best to keep us from dwelling on our…
- Death Conversation ·
How Do You Want To Die?
In a year when death is unavoidably top of mind, a growing number of…
- Grief ·
How to Cope When You’re Grieving the Loss of a Pet
They are more than just pets, they are our companions and part of our…
- Grief ·
My Wife Of 51 Years Died. Here’s What I Learned.
Richard Toth thought he was prepared for the death of someone he loved for…
- Grief ·
Grief and the Holidays
Holidays mark the passage of time in our lives. They are part of the…
- Grief ·
How to Cope with Grief During the Holidays
Grief does not take a back seat during the holidays and can often be…
- Grief ·
64 Examples of Disenfranchised Grief
We often equate grief to a physical death, but that isn’t always the case.…
- Body ·
Keepsake Memories
When Charmaine Haddad’s parents were both gone, the family still had items and clothing…
- Grief ·
How Grief Works
It’s pretty safe to say that grief is one of those emotional bullets that’s…
- Death Community ·
The truth about animal grief
“We humans don’t own love or grief – these emotions are widespread in other…
- Death Conversation ·
What A Hospice Physician Who Interviewed 1,400 Patients Can Tell Us About Dying
Visions and vivid dreams are end-of-life experiences that are seldom talked about. They often include reunions with deceased loved ones — and can provide dying patients with profound comfort.
- Death Conversation ·
Lessons For the Living From the Dying
From every loss in Amanda Carr’s life has come a deeper understanding of the dying experience and a greater appreciation for life.
- Death Culture ·
Grief Speaks
Each culture has its own traditions, rituals and ways of expressing grief and mourning.
- Death Education ·
Thanatophobia and How to Overcome the Fear of Dying
It’s not unusual to fear death. It is the great unknown, after all. It brings the ultimate sadness and enormous loss. But to carry that fear always, obsessively, makes it a phobia. And that phobia has a name: Thanatophobia.
- Death Conversation ·
The world can certainly do with a little more kindness
"Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth." —Naomi Shihab Nye
- Death Culture ·
Protecting Our Kids From the Emotional and Physical Toll of COVID-19
“Teaching my children, and myself, that you can’t always have things your way.” Emily…
- Death Culture ·
Racism and Death: Is it Possible to Die in Peace?
Death doula Alua Arthur brings six Black death positive leaders together to talk about racism…
- Death Education ·
14 Common Mistakes To Avoid When Making A Will
This great article is from UK Solicitors, Percy Hughes & Roberts, but the advice is applicable to many countries around the world. It is always best to seek legal counsel.
Privilege and The Good Death
The ultimate mission of those involved in the “death positive” movement is to advocate…
- Grief ·
The Second Year After a Loved One’s Death
Jackson Rainer was a psychology professor for 25 years, researching grief and bereavement. All…
- Death Education ·
What Does it Feel Like to Die?
Author Jennie Dear’s book “What Does It Feel Like to Die?: Inspiring New Insights…
- Death Culture ·
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…
- Grief ·
Grief is Healing In Motion
In this excerpt from Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, Toko-pa Turner explores how grief is…
- Death Conversation ·
Preparing Children to Visit Someone Who is Dying
Death and Dying can be scary subjects, particularly for kids. But they don’t have…
- Grief ·
Preserving Memories After Someone Has Died
Collecting and organizing old photographs can help during a time of grieving. Talk Death…
- Death Conversation ·
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…
- Death Conversation ·
Sayin’ It Louder
As we look and try to learn more about (and how to battle) racism…
- Death Education ·
Faces of palliative care
Words like “hospice” and “palliative care” are sometimes used interchangeably, but they don’t refer…
- Death Conversation ·
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…
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…
- Death Community ·
Final Passages: Institute of Conscious Dying, Home Funeral and Green Burial Education
“Imagine: facing death with far fewer fears; a funeral ceremony being held in a…
- Death Conversation ·
Death Makes Life Possible
“Being OK with dying is a weird place to be. People think that I’ve…
- Grief ·
Modern Loss
“One of the best things someone said to me soon after my partner died,”…
- Death Conversation ·
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast’s 2014 book, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? starts with this…
- Death Culture ·
Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve
Prominent critic, poet and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores death and dying after the…
- Death Culture ·
In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying
After the loss of her brother in her youth and 20 years working in…
- Grief ·
The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die
“Like many Westerners at the turn of the 21st century, my family and I…
- Death Conversation ·
StoryCorps
StoryCorps—the organization that encourages us to “help create an archive of the wisdom of…
- Death Culture ·
A Will for the Woods
A Will for the Woods, which charts the story of Clark Wang, who was…
- Death Conversation ·
Crossings: A home funeral and green burial resource center.
“What is the single most prevalent fear for humans? Death. And what is the…
- Death Culture ·
A Family Undertaking
A movement in support of home burials in North America has gradually gained momentum…
- Death Culture ·
Tender Funerals: A Community Undertaking
A home-burial movement is getting started in Australia, too. This documentary profiles the work…
- Death Culture ·
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death by Joshua Slocum and Lisa Carlson…
- Death Culture ·
Grave Matters
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the American Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of…
- Death Culture ·
The American Way of Death
The American Way of Death by Jessica Mitford (1964)—the classic exposé that reveals the…
- Death Conversation ·
The Art of Dying
This book by Peter Fenwick and Elizabeth Fenwick presents “accounts by the dying and…
- Death Education ·
The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences: How Understanding NDEs Can Help Us Live More Fully
Dr. Penny Sartori’s book is based on her extensive doctoral research and her 17…
- Grief ·
Circle of Mothers – Healing, Empowering, Fellowship
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, created the Circle of Mothers as a way…
- Death Conversation ·
The D-Word: Talking About Dying
Brayne’s The D-Word is another practical guide to navigating a part of life that…
- Death Conversation ·
Nearing the End of Life: A Guide for Relatives and Friends of the Dying
Sue Brayne’s Nearing the End of Life, written with Peter Fenwick, provides an unvarnished…
- Death Conversation ·
What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying
purpose right now, without waiting until our last breaths,” says author Dr. Karen M. Wyatt,…
