Selected Resources ~ Death and Dying
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CATALIST BOOKS
Books can be located by author, title, or subject and are searchable in many other ways in Catalist, SUNY Ulster's Online Catalog.
Books not available in our collection may be available as an interlibrary loan from SUNYConnect Union Catalog.
Search for books using the terms death, bereavement, grief, hospice, euthanasia, AIDS (disease), funeral rites and ceremonies, and suicide.
LOCATE ARTICLES IN PROFESSIONAL JOURNALS
Journal articles are the best source for
finding current research.
Search in the following databases to find articles.
Academic Search Complete 
(The journals Death Studies and Hastings Center Report are available in full text in this database.)
Health
Reference Center Academic
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Opposing
Viewpoints Resource Center (See sections on assisted
suicide, death, euthanasia, genocide, suicide, violence. Includes
primary documents.)
INTERNET RESOURCES
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (Full text articles)
http://www.deathreference.com/index.html
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
http://www.suicidepreventionlifeline.org
End of Life Issues: Medline Plus
http://nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/endoflifeissues.html
Coping with Loss: ADEC (Association for Death Education and Counseling)
http://www.adec.org/coping/index.cfm
Doughy Center for Grieving Children & Families
http://www.dougy.org
Coping with Grief and Loss (American Cancer Association)
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MBC/MBC_4x_CopingGrief.asp
SAVE: Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
http://www.save.org
Funeral Consumers Alliance
http://www.funerals.org
City of the Silent-History of Cemeteries (with Timelines)
http://www.alsirat.com/silence/history.html
Project on Death in America (Open Society Institute)
http://www.soros.org/resources/articles_publications/publications/pdia_20040101
Euthanasia World Directory (Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization)
http://www.finalexit.org/
Guide to Death, Dying, Grief, Bereavement, and End of Life Resources
http://www.growthhouse.org/default.html
Hospice Foundation of America
http://www.hospicefoundation.org/
Grief and Loss (AARP)
http://www.aarp.org/families/grief_loss
Death Penalty Information Center
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org
The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource
http://www.thebody.com/index.html
On Our Own Terms (Moyers on Dying)
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/onourownterms/index.html
BOOKS IN OUR COLLECTION
(Use multiple search terms such as ‘death and dying’, ‘end of life’, ‘grief’, ‘palliative care’, etc.)
| Selected Books in the collection | |
| American Way of Death | Jessica Mitford |
| Being with dying : cultivating compassion and fearlessness in the presence of death | Joan Halifax |
| Bereavement and Support | Marylou Hughes |
| Children and Grief | J. William Worden |
| Counseling individuals with life-threatening illness | Kenneth J. Doka |
| Death/Grief and Caring Relationships | Richard Kalish |
| Death to Dust | Kenneth V. Iserson |
| Death’s door : modern dying and the ways we grieve | Sandra M. Gilbert |
| Dreaming beyond death : a guide to pre-death dreams and visions | Kelly Bulkeley and Patricia Bulkley |
| The drop edge of yonder : a novel | Rudolph Wulitzer |
| Dying, Death, and Bereavement | Inge Corless |
| Dying, death, and bereavement : a challenge for living | Inge Corless, Barbara B. Germino, Mary A. Pittman, editors |
| Dying Time: Practical Wisdom for the Dying and their Caregivers |
Joan Furman and David McNabb |
| Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth and the End of Life |
Ira Byock |
| Final Passages | Judith C. Ahronheim |
| The Good Death | Marilyn Webb |
| Good grief : healing through the shadow of loss | Deborah Morris Coryell |
| Grief and the Healing Arts | Sandra L. Bertman |
| A Grief Observed | C.S. Lewis |
| Handbook of Childhood Death and Bereavement |
Charles A. Corr |
| House of Death | Arnold Stein |
| How We Die | Sherwin Nuland |
| The Last Dance: Encountering Death & Dying |
Lynn DeSpelder |
| Last Rights: Rescuing the End of Life from the Medical System | Stephen P. Kiernan |
| Life and death decisions : psychological and ethical considerations in end-of-life care | Phillip M. Kleespies |
| Life Lessons | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| Living with Grief | Kenneth Doka |
| The needs of the dying : a guide for bringing hope, comfort, and love to life’s final chapter | David Kessler |
| Nurse to nurse. Palliative care | Margaret L. Campbell |
| On Angel's Eve: Making the Most of Your Final Time Together | Garnett Arledge |
| Our town : a play in three acts | Thornton Wilder |
| Palliative care nursing : quality care to the end of life | Marianne Matzo |
| Psychology of Death | Robert Kastenbaum |
| Real life : preparing for the 7 most challenging days of your life | Phil McGraw |
| Reflections of Life After Death | Raymond Moody |
| Sorrow's Company | Henry DeWitt |
| Staring at the sun : overcoming the terror of death | Irvin D. Yalom |
| Talking about death | Virginia Morris |
| Tibetan Book of the Dead | Karma-glin-pa |
| To die well : your right to comfort, calm, and choice in the last days of life | Sidney H. Wanzer |
| Tuesdays with Morrie | Mitch Albom |
| Wheel of Life | Elisabeth Kubler-Ross |
| When a child dies : how pediatric physicians and nurses cope | Robert S. McKelvey |
| Your critically ill child : life and death choices parents must face | Christopher M. Johnson |
OTHER HELPFUL SOURCES
THE CQ RESEARCHER (RR 050 E23). 1992- Reports with additional references on various social and political issues. Search for articles in recent issues on "Assisted Suicide", "Assisted Suicide Controversy", "Teenage Suicide", "Caring for the Dying", "Death Penalty Update", for overviews of these topics.
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