DYING: A Book of Comfort

Companion website about dying, bereavement, loss, grief — and aging with spirit

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This was a site about death, dying, grief, and loss -- but also about caregiving or living with cancer, chronic illness, and various kinds of aging (both frail and healthy). A particularly popular page is music for funerals and memorial services, but check out also the section on writing your life stories and preparing an ethical will -- plus other end-of-life activities that don't need to wait till you're nearly pushing daisies.

Advance directives, living wills, Medicare, and other practical matters

Aging with grace

Bereavement, grief, and recovery

Caregivers and caregiving

Coping with cancer and critical illness

Coping with chronic, rare, and invisible diseases and disorders

Difficult endings

Eulogies and video tributes

Funerals, cremation, alternatives, and memorial services

Helping a dying friend

Hospice care and palliative care

How storytelling can aid in healing (memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival)

Illness (resources for specific diseases, conditions, syndromes)

Kristie Miller's letter of intent

Life stories and legacy writing (the healing powers of narrative)
Includes Memoirs of illness, crisis, disability, differentness, and survival (a reading list)

Managing life for elderly and disabled patients
Help with the details of caring for elderly or disabled patients(equipment, service, advice and legal matters).

Music for funerals and memorial services

Obituaries

Order Dying: A Book of Comfort

Prayers, poems, and meditations

Recommended reading, viewing and listening

Selections from DYING: A Book of Comfort

Stories about death and dying

The stages of grief

Writing a legacy letter

Index of site

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Site Index

Advance directives
Aging with spirit
Anthems
An old friend calls in a promise
Bereavement, grief, and recovery (letting go, but remembering)
Books about loss and grief (a reading list)
Books about writing ethical wills (legacy letters)
Cancer, facts about
Cancer, personal stories about
Caregivers and caregiving
Classical music for funerals and memorial services
Clinical trials, checking them out
Cremation, about
Coping with cancer (tools, resources for)
Difficult endings
Documents to protect your (and your survivors') rights if you are dying
Documents you should have in an easily available place
Durable health care power of attorney (health care proxy)
Eulogies
Funerals, about
Healing aided by telling your story
Health care proxy (part of advance directive)
Helping a dying friend
Hospice care (care to comfort, not to cure)
Hymns, gospel, and inspirational music for funerals and memorial services
A letter of intent
Living will (part of advance directive)
Memoirs of illness, crisis, differentness, and survival
Memorial services, about
Music for funerals and memorial services
Narratives as healing
Obituaries
Palliative care
Patriotic and military funeral music
Popular secular music (including blues music) for a funeral or memorial service
Prayers, poems, and meditations
The stages of grief
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