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Death and Dying

Zen Hospice Project Reading List on Death & Dying (Regularly Updated)
From Zen Hospice Project
After a Suicide (March/April 2002)
Response to and analysis of an HIV-positive man's suicide.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
Outliving My Father: On a Trip Home, Guest Columnist King Realizes That Caring for Friends Dying of AIDS Have Prepared Him for This Very Moment (May 7, 2001)
In The Advocate
The End of Life (1997-1999)
Resources and readings from National Public Radio's look at death and dying in America.
From National Public Radio
Before I Die: Medical Care and Personal Choices (April 22, 1997)
From the Public Broadcasting Service program, exploring the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today.
From Public Broadcasting Service
Experiences Near Death: Beyond Medicine and Religion (March 1997)
A review of Allan Kellehear's book by Rabbi Allen I. Freehling.
In Journal of the International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care, from International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
The Natural Death Handbook (1993)
A detailed resource to dying naturally.
From Natural Death Centre
Opening to Death (1982)
In Who Dies?, from Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc.

Personal Accounts

In My Own World AIDS (November/December 2007)
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In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
Bruce (December 2002)
Raymond Burroughs writes about losing his life partner Bruce.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Tears of Mel Becker (September/October 2002)
A reflection on the passing of many friends.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
Jake's Story (Spring 2001)
Guns, hallucinations and the final days of a cancer patient's life.
In Compassion in Dying, from Compassion in Dying
Putting Things in Order (February 2000)
Joe Greenwood finally understands the importance of a will when his grandmother dies without one.
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
Five Days in Steve's Life and Death (December 1998)
A mother remembers her son.
Richard (October 1998)
The author's brother describes his lover's death by assisted suicide (Part 2 of 2).
From Mark S. King
Emil (September 1998)
The author writes about the death of his brother's lover (Part 1 of 2.
From Mark S. King
Losing Your Husband to AIDS (December 1997)
Elizabeth Avedon shares her experience.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
I'm Not Done Yet (1997)
An excerpt by Phill Wilson.
In Gay Widowers: Life After the Death of a Partner, from Haworth Press

Grief & Mourning

"Once Again, We All Have a Lot of Grieving to Do" (November 2001)
The impact of the September 11 disaster on people living with HIV/AIDS.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
"Helping the AIDS Mourner" (2000)
A book excerpt from Working With AIDS Bereavement.
In Working with AIDS Bereavement: A Comprehensive Approach for Mental Health Providers, from University of California-San Francisco AIDS Health Project
Ask the Next Question: When You Remember (March 1999)
Thoughts on grieving.
In Survival News, from AIDS Survival Project
Gay Widowers: Grieving in Relation to Trauma and Social Supports (March 1998)
In Journal of the Gay & Lesbian Medical Association, from PLENUM Publishing Corporation
Bereavement (1998)
In The Encyclopedia of AIDS
Loss and AIDS (1992)
In People With AIDS Coalition Newsline
Saying Goodbye to Someone You Love (1989)

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