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grief and end-of-life resources

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Aging With Dignity & Five Wishes (site)

Aging with Dignity's Five Wishes planning program has helped bring peace to 44+ million families.

Get Griefy (site)

An online and IRL magazine for those living with grief (and actually living).

Talk Death (site)

TalkDeath encourages conversations around death and dying.

Hera (site)

Guidance with managing care. Included: home care, transpo, equipment, benefits navigation, and advocacy.

Green burial sites in the US (site)

This list consists of cemeteries and burial grounds that have been reported to provide natural burial options.

Donating your body to science (site)

Information on donating your body to science in the US.

NY State legal info on pet care after death (site)

A summary of measures to take in planning for the care of a pet in the event of your death or hospitalization. 

East Mountain House (resource)

A home for end-of-life care in NW Connecticut without institutional walls or financial worry.

Circle Home (resource)

The first comfort care home for the dying in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Other comfort homes in NY

A list of end-of-life comfort homes in New York state.

Quiĕtus (resource)

An expert team to support you and your loved ones as you navigate New York's Medical Aid in Dying Act.

Zen Caregiving Project (site)

Compassionate caregiving education needed to meet life’s most vulnerable moments with dignity and care.

Using disability benefits for memory care (service)

For patients that qualify, disability insurance is available to help offset the cost of care.

Hudson Senior Center (service)

Offers educational, informational, and recreational programs and activities for local Seniors. 

Columbia County Office of the Aging (service)

Senior services, including meals, short-term home care services, health insurance support. 

Albany County Department for the Aging (service)

Senior services, including short-term home care services, meals, health insurance support.

Community Hospice (service)

Providing assistance, support and guidance. 

Healthcare Consortium (service)

Providing care and info to support independent living.

Visiting Nurse Association of Albany (service)

Provides nursing, PT, OT, ST, home health aide, and social work services for patients in their homes.

Eddy Visiting Nurse and Rehab Association (service)

Provides nursing, PT, OT, ST, home health aide, and social work services for patients in their homes.

It's OK That You're Not OK, Megan Devine (book)

Dismantles the cultural expectation that grief should be solved or healed quickly. 

A Beginner's Guide to the End, Dr. BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger (book)

A clear-eyed and big-hearted action plan for approaching the end of life.

Life is in the Transitions, Bruce Feiler (book)

A pioneering study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill. 

The Five Invitations, Frank Ostaseski (book)

The cofounder of the Zen Hospice Project shares lessons the dying have to offer about living a fulfilling life.

Notes on Grief, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (book)

A meditation written after the sudden death of her father during the pandemic. 

The Wild Edge of Sorrow, Francis Weller (book)

Grounded in ritual and connection, this book helps connect us to each other and ultimately make us whole.

Death Nesting, Anne-Marie Keppel (book)

Providing support for caregivers and loved ones for contemplating your own mortality. 

Entering the Healing Ground, Francis Weller (book)

A companion to The Wild Edge of Sorrow, structured with reflections, rituals, and meditations.

Grief Is Love, Marisa Renee Lee (book)

Blends personal grief with reflections on how loss shapes identity, relationships, and leadership.

Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner (book)

A memoir about losing her mother and navigating identity through food, memory, and grief. 

Briefly Perfectly Human, Alua Arthur (book)

Explores mortality awareness as a way of deepening presence in life.

Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, Akwaeke Emezi (book)

A memoir exploring identity, belonging, and grief through a nonbinary and Nigerian cultural lens.

H is for Hawk, Helen MacDonald

Heart-wrenching and humorous, this book is an unflinching account of bereavement.

¡Ándale, Prieta!, Yasmín Ramírez (book)

A memoir about family, cultural inheritance, and grief after the death of her grandmother.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (book)

A disability justice framework that includes grief, survival, and collective care.

Disability Visibility, edited by Alice Wong (book)

An anthology of disabled voices exploring embodiment, identity loss, and grief in community.

Holding Change, adrienne maree brown (book)

This book is about coordination, conflict, and being humans in right relationship. 

The Invisible Kingdom, Meghan O'Rourke (book)

A memoir about identity, medical systems, and grief for a body that doesn't behave as expected.

Grieving While Black, Breeshia Wade (book)

Wade explores how grief intersects with anti-Blackness, healthcare inequity, and silence around death. 

Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong (book)

Essays on racialized emotional life, the grief embedded in invisibility, and the diaspora.

My Grandmother's Hands, Resmaa Menakem (book)

A somatic exploration of racialized trauma and intergenerational grief held in the body.

When No Thing Works, Norma Kawelokū Wong (book)

A book about inhabiting thresholds without bypassing the sorrow of what's ending.

World as Lover, World as Self, Joanna Macy (book)

Essential reading for anyone struggling with the grief of watching the world change.

Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief, edited by Cindy Milstein (book)

An anthology of essays by activists grappling with grief across many forms of loss.

Finding Refuge: Heart Work for Healing Collective Grief, Michelle Cassandra Johnson (book)

Brings together somatic practices, frameworks, and contemplative traditions to address community grief.

All There Is, Anderson Cooper (podcast)

Anderson Cooper talks live with guests about their grief and the losses they’ve experienced. 

Terrible, Thanks for Asking, Nora McInerny (podcast)

Honest, sometimes funny, always human storytelling about grief and what comes after loss.

Griefcast, Cariad Lloyd (podcast)

Long-form conversations about how grief shapes a life.

Grieving in Color, Dr. Chinasa Elue (podcast)

Explores grief specifically in Black communities. 

Grief Out Loud (podcast)

Normalizing conversations about grief across different life experiences.

All My Relations (podcast)

Indigenous hosts discuss culture, kinship, land, and intergenerational grief.

What's Your Grief (podcast)

A website chock full of grief related resources.

Death Panel (podcast)

Political conversations about healthcare and the systemic dimensions of death and loss.

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