These are some resources and readings we recommend for anyone who wants to further engage with death awareness.
As with everything, we see this resource library as ever-expansive and welcome suggestions!
Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects by Joanna Macy and Molly Young Brown
The Bleeding Tree: A Pathway Through Grief Guided by Forests, Folk Tales and the Ritual Year by Hollie Starling
Tending Grief: Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community by Camille Sapara Barton
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller
Megan Falley’s writing about the passing of her partner, Colorado poet laureate Andrea Gibson
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride
But I Didn’t Say Goodbye: Helping Children and Families After a Suicide Barbara Rubel
Beyond the Rough Rock: Supporting a Child Who Has Been Bereaved Through Suicide by Di Stubbs, Julie Stokes and Heidi Baker
Black Grief and Healing – Why We Need to Talk about Health Inequality and Loss -Edited by Yansie Rolston and Patrick VernonThree Minus One: Stories of Parents’ Love and Loss by Brooke Warner
Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials by Lucinda Herring
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From The Crematorium by Caitlin Doughty
From Here to Eternity: Travelling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals About Death by Caitlin Doughty
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Jeff Greenberg and Sheldon SolomonWhat Remains?: Life, Death, and the Human Art of Undertaking by Rupert Calender
What Remains?: Life, Death, and the Human Art of Undertaking by Rupert Calender
We All Know How This Ends (Lessons about life and living from working with death and dying) by Anna Lyons & Louise Winter
Falsettos (2016)
All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
Mrs Death Misses Death by Selena Godden
Grief is The Thing With Feathers by Max Prior
A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
Under the Whispering Door by TJ KluneWho I Was With Her by Nita Tyndall
Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief edited by Cindy Milstein
From the Ashes: Grief and Revolution in a World on Fire by Sarah Jaffe
The Dead Bird by Margaret Wise Brown, illustrated by Christian Robinson
Badger’s Parting Gift by Susan Varley
Grandpa
Aunty’s Bangles Dean Atta
My Baba’s House | A Poem of Hope by Dr Amani Mugasa
The Invisible String by Patrice Karst, illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriehoff
The Invisible Leash: An Invisible String Story About the Loss of a Pet by Patrice Karst, illustrated by Joanne Lew-Vriehoff
A Terrible Thing Happened: A Story for Children Who Have Witnessed Violence or Trauma by Margaret M Holme, Illustrated by Caro Pillo
Beyond the Rough Rock: Supporting a Child Who Has Been Bereaved Through Suicide by Di Stubbs, Julie Stokes and Heidi BakerGoodbye Daisy by Stephanie Nimmo, illustrated by Helen Braid
Billy, You and Me by Nicola Streeten
Things to do In a Retirement Home Trailer Park When You’re 29 and Unemployed by Aneurin Wright
Wolf by Rachael Ball
Forward by Lisa MaasGhosts: A Graphic Novel by Raina Telgemeier
Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us by Paul Koudanaris
Buried in Style. Artistic Coffins and Funerary Culture in Ghana – English edition, by Regula Tschumi
Cities of the Dead: The Ancestral Cemeteries of Kyrgyzstan by Margaret W. Morton, and contributors: Nassan Rabbat, Altyn Kapalova and Elmira KochumkulovaThe Harlam Book of The Dead by Owen Dodson James and Camilla Van Der Zee