RESOURCES TO START YOUR EXPLORATION

• Video: Why Thinking About Dying Helps You Live a Better Life, Alua Arthur, TED 2023

• Video: What Happens When We Die, Kathryn Mannix, TEDx Newcastle 2022

• Video: What Really Matters at the End of Life, BJ Miller, TED 2015

• Book: A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death, BJ Miller and Shoshana Berger, 2020

• Book: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters at the End, Atul Gawande, 2014

• Book: Final Gifts: Understanding the Awareness, Needs, and Communication of the Dying, Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley, 1992

End of Life

Choices Available

in Vermont

MEDICAL AID IN DYING (MAID)

• Website: Patient Choices Vermont

• Website: Vermont Ethics Network

• Radio: Vermont Public Radio coverage

GREEN BURIAL

• Website: The Vermont Forest Cemetery

• Video: Legacy of Death; Legacy of Life, Michelle Hogle Acciavatti, Founder and Head Cemeterian, TEDxHartlandHill, 2024

Grief

• Film: Speaking Grief, 2020 Documentary and other resources

• Film: His Three Daughters (drama/comedy, 2023)

• Book: The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, Francis Weller, 2015