Click here to find information about your state's advance directive or "living will": http://www.caringinfo.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=3289
"Intense Treatment in the Last Month of Life Is Rising. One Question Can Stop End-of-Life Torture"
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/barbara-coombs-lee/end-of-life-care_b_2807194.html
"Gawande New Yorker article on end-of-life care wins National Magazine Award"
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/gawande-national-magazine-award-html/
"Letting Go: What should medicine do when it can’t save your life?"
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/02/100802fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=1
"How Not to Die: Angelo Volandes's low-tech, high-empathy plan to revolutionize end-of-life care"
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/05/how-not-to-die/309277/
"Our unrealistic attitudes about death, through a doctor’s eyes"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-unrealistic-views-of-death-through-a-doctors-eyes/2012/01/31/gIQAeaHpJR_story.html
Please buy books directly from publishers and from local, independent booksellers.
To find an independent bookseller near you, click on the link for Indie-bound's independent bookstore finder.
You can order new and used books, including textbooks, on-line from a number of independent booksellers, including Alibris in the US and Europe: http://www.alibris.com/ and http://www.alibris.co.uk.
A Ring of Endless Light, by Madeleine L'Engle
Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal, by Rachel Naomi Remen
The American Way of Death Revisited, by Jessica Mitford
Anyone who will ever be involved with a death, or with planning for what to do when someone dies, should read this. (Yes, that's all of us.)
The Pagan Book of Living and Dying, by M. Macha NightMare (Aline O'Brien), Starhawk, and the Reclaiming Collective
This is a wonderful resource book
"Caring Connections" of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (US)
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Toll-Free HelpLine (US)
1-800-658-8898
What Is Hospice? (US)
I highly recommend "Call of the Dark Mother: Working with Dying and Death" for any self-identified Pagan who has experienced working with dying and death or who is called to work with dying and death.
This course is offered through Cherry Hill Seminary (http://cherryhillseminary.org/), and is often open to non-matriculated students (students who are not enrolled in the master's program).
The Quaker Concern Around Dying & Death (UK)
http://www.quaker.org.uk/quaker-concern-around-dying-and-death
Organizes courses/workshops at Woodbrooke and has twice-yearly gatherings.