The following books helped form my perspective and knowledge:

On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (MacMillan, 1969)

Living with Death and Dying, How to Communicate with the Terminally Ill, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Touchstone, 1975)

Death, The Final Stage of Growth, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross ((Touchstone, 1975)

Questions and Answers on Death and Dying - A Companion Guide to the volume On Death and Dying, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Touchstone, 1974)

On Life After Death, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (Celestial Arts, 1991)

The Soul's Religion - Cultivating a Profoundly Spiritual Way of Life, Thomas Moore, (Harper Collins, 2002)

The Poetry of Healing - A Doctor's Education in Empathy, Identity and Desire, Rafael Campo (WW Norton Company, 1997)

Man's Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl (Beacon, 1947)

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, Sogyal Rinpoche (Harper San Francisco, 2002)

The Healing of America, Marianne Williamson (Simon and Schuster, 1997)

The Healing Path of Prayer - A Modern Mystic's Guide to Spiritual Power, Ron Roth (Harmony Books, 1997)

Will to Live Will to Die - Ethics and the Search for a Good Death, Kenneth L. Vaux (Augsburg Publishing House, 1978)

Final Gifts - Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying, Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley (Bantam 1992)

Rituals for Living and Dying - How we can turn loss and fear of Death into an Affirmation of life, David Feinstein and Peg Elliot Mayo (Harper 1990)

Healing and the Mind, Bill Moyers (Doubleday, 1993)

Recovering the Soul - A Scientific and Spiritual Search, Larry Dossey, M.D. (Bantam New Age, 1989)

When Bad Things Happen to Good People, Rabbi Harold S. Kushner (Avon, 1981)

Generation to Generation - Family Process in Church and Synagogue, Edwin Friedman (Guilford Press, 1985)

Friedman's Fables, Edwin Friedman (Guilford Press, 1990)

Living When a Loved One Has Died, Earl A. Grollman (Beacon Press, 1995)

Ambiguous Loss - Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief, Pauline Boss (Harvard University Press, 1999)

Praying our Goodbyes, Joyce Rupp (Ave Maria Press, 1990)

May I Have This Dance, Joyce Rupp (Ave Maria Press, 1992)

The Cup of our Life - A Guide for Spiritual Growth, Joyce Rupp (Ave Maria Press, 1997)

A Journey through Grief, Alla Renee Bozarth, PhD. (Hazelden, 1990)