Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore 

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Dr. Atul Gawande

Briefly Perfectly Human: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End by Alua Arthur

Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson

Dying to Be Me: My Journey from Cancer to Near Death to True Healing by Anita Moorjani

Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial by Mark Harris

Heartspace: Real Life Stories on Death and Dying by Cathy Brooks Edwards

Heartspace II: Real Life Stories on Loss and Renewal by Cathy Brooks Edwards

I’m Still with You: Communicate, Heal & Evolve with Your Loved One on the Other Side by Sherrie Dillard

Jane Brody’s Guide to the Great Beyond: A Practical Primer to Help You and Your Loved Ones Prepare Medically, Legally, and Emotionally for the End of Life by Jane Brody

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Memoir for Margot by Lyle Estill

7 Lessons from Heaven: How Dying Taught Me to Live a Joy-Filled Life by Dr. Mary C. Neal

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty

Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss by Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen

The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford

The Pagan Book of Living and Dying: Practical Rituals, Prayers, Blessings, and Meditations on Crossing Over by Starhawk and M. Macha NightMare

The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martín Prechtel

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche

Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen and Ondrea Levine

An Act of Love: Talking with Your Family About Serious Illness and End of Life | Transitions LifeCare | youtube.com/watch?v=NWJhny4dsYw

Being Mortal | Dr. Atul Gawande for Frontline| youtube.com/watch?v=lQhI3Jb7vMg

Dying for Beginners | Dr. Kathryn Mannix | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayMhA1pRLeY

Staring Down Fate |wildsides.org/staring-down-fate-als-red-wolves

The Art of Dying Before You Die | Dr. Aditi Sethi | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjxp9Sy13Ro

The Last Ecstatic Days | thelastecstaticdaysmovie.com

The Order of the Good Death | orderofthegooddeath.com

What Happens as We Die | Dr. Katherine Mannix |youtube.com/watch?v=v9f6twy70iM

Death Faire | sanctuaryattheburrow.com/deathfaire

End Well | endwellproject.org

Golden Willow Retreat | goldenwillowretreat.org

heart2heartnc | heart2heartnc.com

Heartward Sanctuary | heartwardsanctuary.org

Queer Death Club | queerdeathclub.com

The Compassionate Friends | compassionatefriends.org

National Psychedelics Association | yournpa.org

End of Life Psychedelic Care | eolpc.org

Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies | maps.org

Publications:

• The Beginner’s Guide to Psychedelics by Matt Zemon | mattzemon.com

• The Veteran’s Guide to Psychedelics by Matt Zemon | mattzemon.com

Films:

• Fantastic Fungi | watch.fantasticfungi.com

• DOSED: The Trip of a Lifetime | donate.dosedmovie.com/d2

• How to Change Your Mind | michaelpollan.com/films/how-to-change-your-mind/

Digital Media:

• “Psychedelics Are Catalysts, Not Cures” | Matt Zemon | youtube.com/watch?v=I97hjy2ezT8S

International End-of-Life Doula Association | inelda.org

Cathy Brooks Edwards | listeningtoyoursoul@gmail.com

Holly Menard | hollyeoldoula.com

Holly Lux-Sullivan | heartwooddeathdoula.com

Five Wishes | fivewishes.org

Green Burial Council | greenburialcouncil.org

Green Burial Cemeteries and Services in North Carolina:

• Aldergrove Woodworks | Roxboro, NC | aldergrovewoodworks.com

• Bluestem Conservation Cemetery | Cedar Grove, NC | bluestemcemetery.org

• Carolina Memorial Sanctuary | Mills River, NC | carolinamemorialsanctuary.org

• Endswell | endswellfuneralhome.com

• Mordecai’s Meadow at Historic Oakwood Cemetery |Raleigh, NC | historicoakwoodcemetery.org/green-burial

• Sanctuary at the Burrow | Moncure, NC | sanctuaryattheburrow.com

• Shrouding Sisters | shroudingsisters.com

Green Burial Shrouds:

• New Karma for Old Threads | newkarma.oldthreads@gmail.com

• The Art of Dying | artofdying.earth