Some Death and Dying Resources

Maggie Callanan, a hospice nurse for the last 30 years and the author of "Final Gifts," an influential book about death and dying.

CaringBridge, CarePages and similar sites, these are social networks for ill people that create virtual locations for loved ones.

Sacred Dying Institute seeks to bring spirituality to the act of dying.

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross books.  In her 1969 book, On Death and Dying, she introduced The Five Stages of Grief, otherwise now known as the Kubler-Ross grief cycle.

The book The American Way of Death, by Jessica Mitford. was published in 1963.  It was a runaway best-seller.  It is an expose of abuses in the funeral home industry in the U.S.  An updated revision, The American Way of Death Revisited, appeared in 1998.