Resources

Below are my hand picked End-of-life Books, Films, Death Doula Certification Trainings and Resources to give you the knowledge you need to make informed decisions about your end-of-life options. All of the links are ones that I use currently with my clients and have great standing relationships with. 

BOOKS + FILMS

Books:

The 5 Invitations by Frank Ostaseski

Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson

Being with Dying by Joan Halifax

Preparing to Die by Andrew Holecek

Cultivating a Doula Heart by Francesca Lynn Arnoldy

The Archaeology of Loss by Sarah Tarlow

On Death and Dying by Elizabeth Kobler Ross

Death Nesting by Anne Marie Kepple

Holding Space by Amy Wright Glenn

Making Friends with Death by Laura Pitchett

All The Living and The Dead by Haylee Campell

The Radiant Coat by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (audible only)

Carpooling with Death by Margaret Meloni

This Party's Dead by Erica Busit

Accompanying the Dying by Deanna Cochran

Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chodron

Films:

In the Realm of Death and Dreaming by Johanna J. Lunn

Saying Goodby: Preparing for Death by Johanna J. Lunn

End Game (Netfilx)

Alternative Endings: Six New Ways to Die in America

Griefwalker

A Will For The Woods

Take me out Feet First (Amazon Prime)

Fun & Dying (YouTube)

 

DEATH DOULA CERTIFICATE TRAININGS

Sacred Crossings with Olivia Bareham (my teacher)

Studio DDLA with Jill Shock (I am currently apart of her Collective and love her immensely)

Going with Grace with Alua Arthur 

 

END-OF-LIFE RESOURCES + LOCAL FUNERAL HOME RECOMMENDATIONS

Legal options and information about end-of-life.

https://compassionandchoices.org/

 Advance Directive by State Free Download + other valuable end-of-life planning resources

https://www.everplans.com/articles/state-by-state-advance-directive-forms

Having trouble getting “the conversation” started?

https://theconversationproject.org/

Barbra Karnes Books

Award winning end-of-life educator and hospice nurse. 

https://bkbooks.com

Understand more about green options for your body after you die.

https://www.greenburialcouncil.org/

You can have a funeral in your own home, here’s how.

https://www.homefuneralalliance.org/

Funeral Consumers Alliance

https://funerals.org/ 

LOCAL FUNERAL HOMES

The Natural Funeral Home

https://www.thenaturalfuneral.com/ 

Be A Tree Cremation

https://www.beatreecremation.com/

In Memoriam Services

https://www.inmemoriamservices.com/

A Venerated Death Goods

A Venerated Death is an Online Shop alongside our End-of-Life Care Services. Our goods serve to bring a sacredness and honoring to every end-of-life experience before, during and after death.