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References

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Books For You and Your Family

Understanding Grief, Helping Yourself Heal, Alan Wolfelt
Living When A Loved One Has Died, Earl Grollman
Concerning Death: A Practical Guide for the Living, Earl Grollman
Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child, Earl Grollman
When Children Hurt, Earl Grollman
What Helped Me When My Loved One Died, Earl Grollman
Death: The Final Stage of Growth, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Living with Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Don't Take My Grief Away, Doug Manning
Listen to the Heart, Geeri Howe
Our Greatest Gift: A Meditation on Dying and Caring, Henri Nouwen
Living Through Mourning: Finding Comfort and Hope When a Loved One Had Died, Harriett Schiff
How to Survive the Loss of a Love, Melba H. Colgrove
The Mourning After: How to Manage Grief Wisely, Stanley P. Cornils
Understanding Mourning: A Guide for Those Who Grieve, Religion and Medicine Series of Augsburg Publishing House

Additional Reading Sources

Recovering From the Loss of a Loved One, Kathleen Fair
Explaining Death to Children, edited by Earl A. Grollman. With an introd. by Louise Bates Ames
Straight Talk About Death for Teenagers: How to Cope With Losing Someone You Love, Earl A. Grollman
Bereaved Children and Teens: A Support Guide for Parents and Professionals, Earl A. Grollman
On Children and Death, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
The Wheel of Life: A Memoir of Living and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Web Sites For Support

The internet is a terrific reference resource with a variety of grief and support sites. Some offer support and advice, other pages provide an opportunity to anonymously memorialize loved ones and some sites are open discussions.

Here is just a sampling of what's available:

Batesville Casket Company's grief section

http://www.batesville.com

National Funeral Director's Association

http://www.nfda.org

Dr. Alan Wolfelt and his Center for Loss and Life Transition

http://www.centerforloss.com

National Select Morticians

http://www.nsm.org/grieve.html

National Public Radio

http://www.npr.org/programs/death

International Order of the Golden Rule

http://www.ogr.org

Yahoo's grief-related index

http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/death

ster's Death, Dying and Grief Guide

http://www.katsden.com/death/index.html