After All - Resources
Below are some resources, books and links that relate to some of the content of After All.
The list is just a start, and we welcome any suggestions and contributions.
If you feel there is something that would be good to add, please get in touch.
Death & Dying
Books:
Lost Rites: Ceremony & Ritual for Death & Dying - Alexandra Grace Derwen
The Dead Good Funerals Book - Sue Gill and John Fox
The Funeral Celebrants Handbook: Creating services that celebrate life and mourn death - Barry H. Young
Scottish Customs: From the Cradle to the Grave - Margaret Bennet
The Coffin Roads: Journeys to the West - Ian Bradley
The Tibetan Book of the Dead - composed by Padmasambhava, revealed by Terton Karma Lingpa
Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing - Daniel Foor
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End - Atul Gawande
Final Gifts: Understanding the special awareness, needs and communications of the dying - Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
Words at the Threshold: what we say as we're nearing death - Lisa Smartt
Death: The Final Stage of Growth - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross The Art of Dying - Peter Fenwick & Elizabeth Fenwick
Online Resources:
Dying Matters: Hospice UK's Dying Matters campaign working to create an open culture in which we're comfortable talking about death, dying and grief.
Death Cafe: Network of spaces to speak about death across the UK
Lifting the Lid: Online Festival of Death and Dying
The Natural Death Centre: Lifting the Lid on Funerals and Dying: Independent funeral advice, including natural burials.
Pushing up the Daisies: Scotland based project for information exchange and support for the time immediately after someone has died, especially support for bringing the body back home.
The Collective for Radical Death Studies: a group of Scholars, Funeral Directors, Death Work Practitioners, Activists, and Students who view death work as synonymous with anti-racism work, actively dismantling oppression, and as a way to validate cultural and social life among marginalized groups.
Ancestral Medicine: US based project working with Ancestral connection, lineage and healing.
Grief & Bereavement
Books:
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief - Francis Weller
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death and Surviving - Julia Samuel
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise - Martín Prechtel
Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief - Eds. Dennis Klass, Phyllis R. Silverman & Seven L. Nickman.
Coming Back to Life - Joanna Macey & Molly Brown
Rebellious mourning: The Collective Work of Grief - Cindy Milstein
Online resources:
Good Grief Festival: Online annual festival with talks, conversation and shared experiences around grief, with large and accessible youtube video archive.
The Good Grief Trust: run by the bereaved for the bereaved, helplines, advice, support.
CRUSE Bereavement Support: counseling and bereavement support.
At A Loss: UK bereavement signposting website.
Muslim Bereavement Support Service: a non-profit organisation supporting bereaved Muslim women.
Jewish Bereavement Counseling Service: Bereavement support for the Jewish community.
Sue Ryder Bereavement Counseling: Online bereavement support and resources.
The Samaritans helpline: National helpline offering emotional support.
Shining a Light on Suicide: National bereavement support for those affected by loss through suicide.