Resource Category: Books

From Here To Eternity

There’s a lot to be learned from other cultures attitudes and rituals toward death. In Caitlin’s imitable, informed, honest and humorous style, she travels the world delving into cultures that…
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Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Stories from an American mortician. This very funny book is an poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death – Here-Here Caitlain – Written 12 yrs ago, the…
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Dear Life 

Dear Life is Rachel Clarke’s intimate memoir of witnessing life, death, and the profound experiences in between. Drawing on her career as a doctor, Clarke reflects on love, loss, grief, and…
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The Sealed Box of Suicide

As the title suggests, this book aims to break open the taboo and stigma around suicide. This is a much more academic book than the rest listed here but when…
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When It is Darkest

An evidence-based self-help book on understanding and preventing suicide. This book aims to untangle the complex reasons behind suicide and dispel any unhelpful myths. For those trying to help someone…
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Growing Through Grief

Psychotherapist Alex Mammadyarov presents a step-by-step, comprehensive, and transformative process to help you cultivate present moment awareness, resilience, and self-compassion after the life-altering shock of a significant loss Growing Through…
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You Are Not Alone

The friend you need when you’re grieving’ from the creator and host of Griefcast, a compassionate, funny guide to grief, inspired by her Griefcast podcast, offers a “road map” that…
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Don’t Tell The Children 

Breaking the taboo about death. John Adams is a 4th generation funeral director. Having lost his mum at a young age he is an advocate for bereavement education for children.…
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Widower to Widower

A self-help book for widowers A compassionate and practical guide for men navigating the devastating loss of a spouse. Drawing on his own experience as a widower, Fred Colby shares…
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Modern Loss,essays on grief,honest conversations on grief

Modern Loss

Candid Conversation about grief. Beginners welcome Grief doesn’t follow a timeline, and it rarely looks the way we expect. Modern Loss is a frank, funny and profoundly human collection of…
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