Reading List & More
March 29, 2008
I will be adding to this list as I find more and as you send me your favorites.
Books
Bereavement
- After the Death of a Child. Living with Loss Through the Years
- Helping Children Cope With the Loss of a Loved One. A Guide for Grownup
- How To Survive The Loss Of A Parent . A Guide for Adults
- How Do We Tell The Children? A Step-By-Step Guide for Helping Children Two to Teen Cope When Someone Dies
- I Can’t Stop Crying. It’s So Hard When Someone You Love is Dying
- The Loss That Is Forever. The Lifelong Impact of the Early Loss of a Mother or Father
- Motherless Daughters. The Legacy of Loss
- Sad Isn’t Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss
- Sibling Loss
- You Can Help Someone Who’s Grieving. A How-to Healing Handbook
- When Bad Things Happen To Good People
Caregiving
- The Complete Bedside Companion
- Daily Comforts for Caregivers
- Dancing on Quicksand. A Gift of Friendship in the Age of Alzheimers
- The Comfort of Home. An Illustrative Step by Step Guide for Caregivers
- Fourteen Friends’ Guide to Elder-Caring Practical Advice, Inspiration, Shared Experiences, Space for Your Thoughts
- At Home With Terminal Illness. A Family Guide to Hospice in the Home
- Keeping Busy. A Handbook of Activities for People with Dementia
- What If It’s Not Alzheimer’s? A Caregiver’s Guide To Dementia
Conumer Issues
- Cash For The Final Days. A Financial Guide for the Terminally Ill and Their Advisors
- Final Choices: Seeking the Good Death
- The Hospice Handbook. A Complete Guide
- Hospice and Palliative Care. Questions and Answers
- Long Goodbye: The Deaths Of Nancy Cruzan
- Sick to Death and Not Going to Take it Anymore
- Unplugged: Reclaiming Our Right to Die in
America
The Dying Process
* Final Gifts. Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying
* How We Die: Reflections on Life’s Final Chapter
Education
* AIDS: What Teens Need To Know AIDS: Answers To Questions Kids Ask
Family Support
* Living With Life-Threatening Illness: A Guide for Patients, Their Families, and Caregivers
* Dying Well: The Prospect for Growth at the End of Life
* Kitchen Table Wisdom. Stories That Heal
* The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living
* Guide to End-of-Life Care, Handbook for Mortals: Guidance for People Facing Serious Illness
* Hospice and Palliative Care
Health Care Reform
- Curing Health Care. New Strategies for Quality Improvement
- Sick to Death and Not Going to Take it Anymore
Hospitals and death
- And A Time To Die
Living with Life-Threatening Illness
- The Courage To Laugh. Humor, Hope and Healing in the Face of Dying
- Living With Grief: When Illness Is Prolonged
- Ready To Live, Prepared To Die. A Provocative Guide to the Rest of Your Life
- Tuesdays With Morrie. An Old Man, a Young Man, and the Last Great Lesson
- She Came To Live Out Loud.An Inspiring Family Journey Through Illness, Loss, and Grief
Medical Professionals and Their Personal Stories
- Surviving The Fall. The Personal Story of an AIS Doctor
Primary Caregivers: Living with life-threatening illness from their perspective.
- Healing Lessons. A Doctor’s Story Of Love, Loss, and Transformation
Special Topics
- Assisted Suicide. Last Wish
- Women and Aids. Growthouse, Inc. has created a list of books on this issue. http://www.growthhouse.org/books/womenhiv.htm
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Professional
- By No Extraordinary Means: The Choice to Forgo Life-Sustaining Food and Water
- Care of the Dying Child.
Oxford Medical Publication - Let Someone Hold You. The Journey of a Hospice Priest
- Caregiving: Hospice-Proven Techniques for Healing Body and Soul
- Children Mourning, Mourning Children
- Coma and Impaired Consciousness: A Clinical Perspective
- Cultural Issues in End-of-Life Decision Making
- Death and Spirituality. Death, Value and Meaning Series
- Death And The Adolescent: A Resource Handbook For Bereavement Support Groups In Schools
- Death Foretold: Prophecy and Prognosis in Medical Care
- Ethical Patient Care . A Casebook for Geriatric Health Care Teams
- Ethnic Variations in Dying, Death, and Grief . Diversity in Universality (Series in Death Education, Aging, and Health)
- Forgoing Life-Sustaining Therapy. How to Care for the Patient Who is Near Death
- Hospice and Palliative Care: Concepts and Practice, Second Edition
- The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living (Hardcover)
- Hospice Care For Children
- Hospice Care for Patients With Advanced Progressive Dementia
- The Hospital Handbook. A Practical Guide to Hospital Visitation
- Hypnosis and Suggestion in the Treatment of Pain. A Clinical Guide
- Hypnosis in the Relief of Pain
- Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians
- Living With Grief Music Therapy in Dementia Care
- Nursing Care of Children and Adolescents With Cancer
- Palliative Care in the Home
- Palliative Care Ethics: A Companion For All Specialties
- Palliative Care Nursing- Quality Care To The End Of Life
- Palliative Care Perspectives
- Palliative Practices: A Multidisciplinary Approach
- The Primer Of Palliative Care
- Symptom Management Algorithms for Palliative Care
- Success With Heart Failure. Help and Hope for those with Congestive Heart Failure
Spiritual Thoughts
- Conscious Dying. Psychology of Death and Guide to Liberation
- The Pagan Book Of Living And Dying. Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over
- The Tibetan Book Of Living And Dying
Volunteers for Hospice
- When Autumn Comes. Creating Compassionate Care for the Dying
- In The Light Of Dying. The Journals of a Hospice Volunteer
Audio and MoviesOn Our Own Terms Video - A Bill Moyers PBS Special, a videotape. KQED-TV,
(Cooper Green Hospital)
News Coverage
“Unlikely Guide to End-of-Life Decisions: Computer
(Henry Ford Health System)Audiovisual
- With Open Eyes - series in association with Bill Moyers’ “On Our Own Terms.” KQED-TV,
San Francisco , CA. 2000.
(University of California, Davis, School of Medicine) - Palliative Care in Nursing Homes, two 10 minute video tapes and slides with bibliography and resource list to be used for nursing home staff development.
Geriatric Education Center at theUniversity ofPennsylvania .
(University of Pennsylvania, School of Nursing) - Bringing Palliative Care Home to Patients Engaged in Clinical Trials: An Interview with Joan Blais.” Innovations in End-of-Life Care, 5(4): 2003. www.edc.org/lastacts (University of California, Davis, School of Medicine)
Movies
A Family Undertaking (home funeral)
Lasting Images (documentary-burial alternatives)
Intimate Universe: The Human Body - The End of Life (documentary)
Products
Unique Funeral Products http://www.uniquefuneralproducts.com/blog/
Please consider adding Lise Funderburg’s recently released memoir, PIG CANDY: TAKING MY FATHER SOUTH, TAKING MY FATHER HOME, to your recommended reading list.
Here’s what people have to say about PIG CANDY:
“Funderburg’s elegant story packs an emotional punch, and while there are several heartbreaking turns, it may well be one of the most hopeful books you’ll read this year.” — Patrik Henry Bass, Essence
“If you’re after a memoir pure and simple—a life exposed with intelligence and feeling—you could hardly do better than Pig Candy (Free Press, $24), in which Lise Funderburg takes us down to Monticello, Ga. (pop. 2,500), the place her father, a light-skinned black man, had escaped from, the place he came back to in his prosperous late middle age. The story is built around her father’s attachment to his 126-acre farm—an attachment that grows stronger even as metastasized prostate cancer weakens him. Pig Candy—the title refers to barbecued pork—wears its somber themes lightly. Yes, it’s about mortality, race and filial duty, but Ms. Funderburg never lectures, never preaches, never prettifies. She unspools her story with quiet candor and an unpretentious faith in the significance of what she has to say.” — Adam Begley, The New York Observer
“A candid and moving memoir of a daughter’s deep love for her father both when he is most difficult to love and impossible not to. Unforgettable and powerful, we are changed for the better by every page of it.”
— Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying
“With Pig Candy, Lise Funderburg has used her considerable powers—of private observation, of social empathy, and of historical imagination—to transform an already gripping personal narrative into an overwhelming parable about race, family, and mortality. A wonderful book.” —Daniel Mendelsohn, author of The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million
“With a daughter’s compassion and a journalist’s precision, Lise Funderburg recounts the final years of her father’s life on his farm in Georgia. But Pig Candy is more than simply the story of George Newton Funderburg. It’s an extraordinary portrait of how a difficult place shapes a man, how a daughter loves a challenging father, and how the act of remembering even the most painful aspects of our personal and collective histories can make us whole.” —Bliss Broyard, author of ONE DROP: My Father’s Hidden Life–A Story of Race & Family Secrets
Thank you for your consideration of PIG CANDY,
Delia Raab-Snyder
info@pigcandyonline.com
For press requests or review copies: Nicole.Kalian@simonandschuster.com