Books and Films
The Art of Dying Well, Katy Butler (2019)
A guide to living resiliently, how to get the best from our health system and how to prepare physically and spiritually for end of life.
A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death, BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger (Simon & Schuster, 2019)
A bit like an encyclopedia of topics.
Being With Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death, Joan Halifax (2009)
Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funeral and Green Burials, Lucinda Herring (2019)
We Know How This Ends: Living While Dying, Bruce Kramer with Cathy Wurzer (University of MN Press, 2015)
The story of Bruce Kramer after his diagnosis with ALS, former Dean at the University of St Thomas, St Paul, MN.
Being Mortal, Atul Gawande (Metropolitan Books, 2014)
A practicing surgeon explores aging, death and the medical professions’s handling/mishandling of both.
Final Gifts, Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying Maggie Callahan and Patricia Kelley (1997)
Insights into the experience of dying, offered by two hospice nurses with a gift for listening.
Minnesota Resources
Minnesota Death Collaborative
www.mndeathcollaborative.com
A central resource of integrated end of life professionals
The End in Mind
https://www.endinmindproject.org/
Conversations about the choices and possibilities we have in our lives can inspire and motivate us to live vibrantly now and die with peace when the time comes.
Minnesota Network of Hospice and Palliative Care
mnhpc.org
Light The Legacy
lightthelegacy.org
Giving Voice Chorus
givingvoicechorus.org
MN choir for people with dementia and their care partners
Morning Star Singers
www.morningstarsingers.org
Threshold singers currently available via zoom
Other Resources
On Being: Contemplating Mortality, Ira Byock, November 7, 2013 (Podcast)
https://soundcloud.com/onbeing/contemplating-mortality
One Day Your Mind May Fade. At Least You’ll Have a Plan, Dementia Advanced Directive, New York Times, 1/19/2018
https://nyti.ms/2Dj0fP8
Nora McInerny TED talks 2018 – Minnesota Author and Speaker
https://www.ted.com/talks/nora_mcinerny_we_don_t_move_on_from_grief_we_move_forward_with_it
In a talk that’s by turns heartbreaking and hilarious, writer and podcaster Nora McInerny shares her hard-earned wisdom about life and death.