Denver
Lighter Living
- Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.
- The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter
- The Boomer Burden: Dealing with Your Parents’ Lifetime Accumulation of Stuff
- Breathing Room: Open Your Heart by Decluttering Your Home
- Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever
- The Joy of Less, A Minimalist Living Guide: How to Declutter, Organize, and Simplify Your Life
- The More of Less: Finding the Life You Want Under Everything You Own
- The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
- Soulful Simplicity: How Living with Less Can Lead to So Much More
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up)
- Spark Joy: An Illustrated Master Class on the Art of Organizing and Tidying Up (The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up)
- Simplify Your Life: 100 Ways to Slow Down and Enjoy the Things That Really Matter
End-of-Life Books
- The Emotional Survival Guide for Caregivers: Looking After Yourself and Your Family While Helping an Aging Parent
- Hope for the Caregiver: Encouraging Words to Strengthen Your Spirit
- Present through the End: A Caring Companion’s Guide for Accompanying the Dying
- “I Don’t Have Time for This!”: A Compassionate Guide to Caring for Your Parents and Yourself
- When Your Aging Parent Needs Help: A Geriatrician’s Step-by-Step Guide to Memory Loss, Resistance, Safety Worries, & More
- Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
- My Friend, I Care: The Grief Experience
- On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
- Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief
- Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
- It’s OK That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
- Midwife for Souls: Spiritual Care for the Dying
- A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
- The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life
- Knocking on Heaven’s Door: The Path to a Better Way of Death
- The Final Act of Living: Reflections of a Longtime Hospice Nurse
- End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets
- The Four Things That Matter Most – 10th Anniversary Edition: A Book About Living
- The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life
- Dying Well
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
- The End-of-Life Handbook: A Compassionate Guide to Connecting with and Caring for a Dying Loved One
- Let’s Talk about Death (over Dinner): An Invitation and Guide to Life’s Most Important Conversation
- Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul
- Live Long, Die Short: A Guide to Authentic Health and Successful Aging
- Talking About the End Is Only the Beginning: Conversations Every Child Must Have with Their Aging Parents
- Extreme Measures: Finding a Better Path to the End of Life
- That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour
- The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-of-Life Care
- Death Benefits: How Losing a Parent Can Change an Adult’s Life–for the Better
- The Good Death: The New American Search to Reshape the End of Life
- The Promised Landing: A Gateway to Peaceful Dying
- Changing the Way We Die: Compassionate End of Life Care and The Hospice Movement
- It’s OK to Die
- The American Way of Death Revisited
- Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
- Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life
- Demystifying Hospice: Inside the Stories of Patients and Caregivers
- A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death
- Letting Go
- The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
- What Really Matters – 2nd Edition: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying
- The Tao of Death: The Secret to a Rich & Meaningful Life
- The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
- Ho’oponopono: The Hawaiian Forgiveness Ritual as the Key to Your Life’s Fulfillment
- Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
- Destiny of Souls: New Case Studies of Life Between Lives
- When God Winks at You: How God Speaks Directly to You Through the Power of Coincidence
- Tears to Triumph: The Spiritual Journey from Suffering to Enlightenment
- World Peace Diet (Tenth Anniversary Edition): Eating for Spiritual Health and Social Harmony
- Pack Lightly: Making Sense of the Second Half of Your Life
- In Search of the Baby Boomer Generation
- The Blue Zones, Second Edition: 9 Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest
- Secrets of Longevity: Hundreds of Ways to Live to Be 100
- Marrow: A Love Story
- The Greatest Generation
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- The Truth of Memoir: How to Write about Yourself and Others with Honesty, Emotion, and Integrity
- End-of-Life University Book Lists
- Goodreads End-of-Life Book List
End-of-Life Resources
- www.agingwithdignity.org ~ Aging with Dignity is a national nonprofit organization with a mission to affirm and safeguard the human dignity of individuals as they age and to promote better care for those near the end of life.
- www.bkbooks.com/blog ~ Something to Think About: a blog on end of life by Barbara Karnes.
- www.changingthewaywedie.com ~ Website about the book, Changing the Way We Die, with additional resources.
- www.angelovolandes.com ~ Physician advocate for end-of-life conversations.
- www.theconversationproject.org ~ The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.
- www.theconversationbook.org ~ Video link advocating conversation and the three options of life-prolonging care, limited medical care, and comfort care.
- www.fullcircleaftercare.com ~ Helps you settle personal and estate matters after the death of a loved one.
- www.youtube.com/user/OrderoftheGoodDeath/~ Ask a Mortician, videos from a mortician who wants to answer your questions.
- www.deathcafe.com~ Death Cafe, “At a Death Cafe people, often strangers, gather to eat cake, drink tea and discuss death. Our objective is ‘to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives’.”
- http://deathoverdinner.org/ ~ The creators have gathered dozens of medical and wellness leaders to cast an unflinching eye at end of life and created an uplifting interactive adventure that transforms this seemingly difficult conversation into one of deep engagement, insight, and empowerment.
- www.irabyock.org ~ Dr. Ira Byock is a leading palliative care physician, author, and public advocate for improving care through the end of life.
- www.karenwyattmd.com ~ Her book, What Really Matters: 7 Lessons for Living from the Stories of the Dying, details her experiences as a hospice physician. Her book, The TAO of Death: The Secret of a Rich & Meaningful Life provides reflective wisdom and spirituality of the dying process.
- www.eoluniversity.com ~ Resources and inspiration for the end of life.
- www.oktodie.com ~ Their mission is to create conditions in which people: plan ahead, make their peace, understand that it is okay to die naturally, and make educated choices, which allow them to pass away peacefully and comfortably surrounded by those who love them most.
- www.prepareforyourcare.org ~ A website that assists with making medical decisions for yourself and others, talk with your doctors, and get the medical care that is right for you.
- www.codaalliance.org ~ The Coda Alliance is dedicated to helping you comfortably deal with one of life’s most difficult situations—starting your end-of-life conversation. Check out the “Go Wish Game.”
- www.notifbutwhen.org ~ Not If But When: This website is a curated list of books for children and youth about death and loss. Children and teens facing the loss of friends and family, or their own mortality, need help navigating the emotional, physical, and practical upheavals and restorations that are part of the natural process. Books offer opportunities to ask questions, wonder, and simply acknowledge the realities of their circumstances.
- www.mydirectives.com ~ MyDirectives makes it easy to create a state-of-the-art emergency, critical, and advance care plan.
- www.caringinfo.org ~ CaringInfo, a program of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, provides free resources to help people make decisions about end-of-life care and services before a crisis.
- Best books on End-of-Life Planning.
- www.getpalliativecare.org ~ Information and resources for palliative care.
- www.nhpco.org ~ National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, 800-658-8898
- www.hospicefoundation.org ~ Hospice Foundation of America: Improving access, care and knowledge about hospice, grief and loss.
- www.aarp.org/families/end_life ~ AARP End of Life Resources
- Grief and Loss Resources ~ 888-687-2277
- www.funerals.org ~ Funeral Consumers Alliance, 800-765-0107
- www.nfda.org ~ National Funeral Directors Association, 800-228-6332
- www.homefuneralalliance.org ~ National Home Funeral Alliance: This is the place to find information about home funerals, including directories for where to find home funeral guides, home funeral education programs, home-funeral-friendly funeral directors, celebrants, clergy, and groups who will help families when needed.
- www.funerals.org/greenburial ~ Green (or natural) burial emphasizes simplicity and environmental sustainability. The body is neither cremated nor prepared with chemicals such as embalming fluids. It is simply placed in a biodegradable coffin or shroud and interred without a concrete burial vault. The grave site is allowed to return to nature. The goal is complete decomposition of the body and its natural return to the soil.
- www.cremationassociation.org www.cremationassociation.org/page/CremationProcess~ Cremation Association of North America. Provides information on flame-based cremation and water based cremation/alkaline hydrolysis.
- www.funeralwise.com/plan/cremation/cremation-process/~ Funeralwise describes the cremation process in detail.
- www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/alkaline-hydrolysis-laws-your-state~ Describes alkaline hydrolysis and gives information about what US states offer it.
- www.greenburialcouncil.org ~ Green Burial Council believes burial is “green” only when it furthers legitimate environmental and societal aims, such as protecting worker health, reducing carbon emissions, conserving natural resources, and preserving habitat.
- www.greenburialnaturally.org ~ Green Burial Naturally: State-By-State Where, How, and Why to Choose Green Burial.
- www.celebrationsoflife.net ~ Their mission is to provide a meaningful Legacy Journey® experience to help individuals and families live their lives with intention and share their values, wisdom, and generosity with loved ones and future generations.
- Planning an Accessible Funeral Service
- Caregiving Essentials: What You Need to Know to Keep Seniors Safe at Home
- Information online about Falls Prevention by the National Council on Aging
- National Council on Aging Care’s fact sheet
- The Go Wish Game
- How to request a credit freeze for the deceased
- Virtual book club that explores death and the afterlife through books-monthly book suggestions, includes teleconference with author at end of month
Perhaps a few of these resources called to you. To read a more in-depth review of each book, visit and follow Lisa on Goodreads. If you have found or read any books or articles that you believe would be good additions to this list, please contact me. This list of resources is ever-expanding and updated thanks to the suggestions of my readers and further research since the book’s publication.
