Websites, Books, Podcasts
Excellent Websites about Natural Burial
Home Funeral Guidance from the Center for End of Life Transitions
Podcasts about Death Care
Book Recommendations
Being Mortal - Atul Gawande
When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communication of the Dying - Maggie Callanan
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved - Kate Bowler
A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death - BJ Miller, MD and Shoshana Berger
Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials - Lucinda Herring
A Year to Live: How to Live this Year as if it Were Your Last - Stephen Levine
A Memoir of Loss and Love - Amy Bloom
The Five Invitations - Frank Ostaseski
Being with Dying - Roshi Joan Halifax
How We Live is How We Die - Pema Chodron
The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis Weller
Photo by Kelley Van Dilla
Photo by Kelley Van Dilla
Events!
Fayette County Death & Dying Book Club Season 3
2026-2027
Unless noted, all events are Tuesday evening from 6-7:30pm at Love Hope.
October 13th - Year of Magical Thinking
October 27th - End-of-life planning workshop (6-8pm, Gran Robbie's, Ansted)
December 8th - The Luckiest Unlucky Couple, led by Meredith Gregg & Kristen Quinn
January 12th - Bring a friend to book club for a discussion of Pet Grief
February 16th - Planning our own memorial service - bring songs/poetry/hymns/readings to share
March 16th - End of season, Buddhist views on death - Being with Dying by Roshi Joan Halifax, How We Live is How We Die by Pema Chodron, No Death, No Fear - Thich Nhat Hanh