- 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…
- End of Life Preparation ·
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 home or a private, intimate setting, allowing for a longer and…
- End of Life Preparation ·
Death Makes Life Possible
“Being OK with dying is a weird place to be. People think that I’ve given in,” says one man at the centre of the documentary…
- Grief ·
Modern Loss
“One of the best things someone said to me soon after my partner died,” says therapist and writer Megan Devine, “was: With something this big, ‘just…
- Bookshelf ·
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?
Roz Chast’s 2014 book, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? starts with this statement: “It was against my parents’ principles to talk about death.”…
- Bookshelf ·
Death’s Door: Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve
Prominent critic, poet and memoirist Sandra M. Gilbert explores death and dying after the untimely loss of her husband. She weaves cultural history, her personal…
- Bookshelf ·
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 a hospice, Eve Joseph writes lyrical essays on death, dying and…
- Bookshelf ·
The Mourner’s Dance: What We Do When People Die
“Like many Westerners at the turn of the 21st century, my family and I had not had much to do with death,” says author Katherine…
- Grief ·
Circle of Mothers – Healing, Empowering, Fellowship
Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, created the Circle of Mothers as a way to empower women. The purpose of the Circle of Mothers is…
- Grief ·
Pet Bereavement
“…grief is grief…” This Huffington Post article, Pet Bereavement Is No Different Than Human Bereavement discusses what you might expect to experience when you lose…
- Grief ·
Relating with Mesothelioma
“It’s never easy to lose someone you love. Losing a loved one to an aggressive cancer such as mesothelioma can be even more difficult, because…
- Grief ·
Grieving Everyday Losses
We are aware of the great losses in life, but what about the small ones? The American Counseling Association acknowledges that we have little griefs…
