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AN INDEX TO GRIEF AND LOSS SITES ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB
The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement makes no representation whatsoever regarding the content of any other web sites which you may access from the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement Web site. When you access a non-Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement web site, please understand that it is independent from the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement and that the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement has no control over the content on that web site. A link to a non-Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement web site does not mean that the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement endorses or accepts any responsibility for the content or use of such web site.
  The Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement would appreciate feedback on the usefulness of sites included in this listing including links that are no longer active and welcomes suggestions for additions to this listing.
 
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Links are grouped under the following headings:

Australian sites are indicated (Australian)

General Grief/Death and Healing Resources

The best places to visit to learn about coping with grief, and grief counselling resources:

Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement(Australian)
A Place to Honor Grief [Tom Golden]
Association for Death Education and Counseling
Carers Australia - Loss & Grief
(Australian)
Bereavement and Hospice Support Netline
Bereavement Resources [UK - Legacy, Legal Advice site]
Computerized Aids Ministries
Crisis, Grief, and Healing: Men and Women (Tom Golden)
Death and Bereavement Links - Growth House
Emotional Support Resources [U Mich]
Grief Link - South Australia (Australian)
GriefNet - Rivendell Resources
Grief Recovery Institute
Lifewords.com
Medline Plus - Bereavement

Natural Death Centre [London UK]
Skylight - Skylight, based in New Zealand, provides support for grieving children and teenagers, and those caring for them.
Teenage Grief Inc (TAG)

Thanatolinks: Death Related Web Sites

The Body: A MultiMedia AIDS and HIV Information Resource

The Grieving Process [Against Drunk Drivers]
zSan Francisco: Death links
Zoom Chadwick's Page with grief resources

Aging, Growth, Mental Health, and Healing

Focused on healing and mental health, in the face of changes like death and aging.

AARP's Web Place
Aging-Parents-and-Elder-Care.com
Alzheimer's - A Year to Remember [Brenda Parris]
Foundation for Infinite Survival [Life Extension, Aging Research]
Gerontological Society of America
GeroPsychology Page
Gerontology Manual
GeroWeb - older adults
Goteborg University - Dept of Geriatric Medicine
Growth House
Huffington Center on Aging
Interactive Aging Network
Magic Stream - Mental Health/Self Help
Mental Health Magazine
Over 65 and Feeling Depressed [txt]
Project Nightlight - "No one should die alone"
SeniorLaw Home Page
SeniorNet
Senior-Site [adults over 50 and their caregivers]
Univ. of Georgia, Gerontology Center
WidowNet - A Resource for Widows/Widowers

Depression, Anxiety and Suicide

Learning more about how depression and suicide can effect our lives.
American Association of Suicidology
Depression help and prevention
Chris Dransfeldt's Suicide Help Page
Depression Alliance
Depression Central - Dr Ivan
Depression Hurts, Heals, Inspires
Depression - Patient Guide [AHCPR]
Light For Life Foundation - Suicide Prevention
Winter Depression Program Home Page

Children, Adolescents, Neonates and Family Support

Aimed at the family, including miscarriage, neonatal death and children.
CareGivers - San Francisco Examiner
CareGiver Network Inc
Caregiving Online
Centre for Adolescent Health (Australian)
International Childbirth Education Association
Children with Aids Project
The Compassionate Friends - Victoria (Australian)
Compassionate Friends, Troy MI
Dealing with Family Problems (including death) - Penn State
For Those Who Have Had Miscarriages - Atlanta Reproductive Health Center
Journey of Hope Grief Support Centre (Plano, Texas)
Impact of Adoption on Birth Parents
The Legacy - A Grief Center for Children
National SIDS Resource Center
SIDS and Kids Online
(Australian)
Raindrop - Death Education For Children of All Ages
Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Support (SANDS) (Australian)
Skylight - Skylight, based in New Zealand, provides support for grieving children and teenagers, and those caring for them.
Sudden Infant Death Research Foundation Inc. (Australian)
WIC Biography - Ann Armstrong Dailey

OnLine Memorials and Personal Remembrance Sites

Sites for us to remember

AIDS Memorial at The Body
Ana Duarte-Coiner, Memorial and Tribute
artwells oracula - anonimmus shrines
Dead People Server
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross [WIC Biography]
Eternal Flames Cemeteries - Commemorative/Memorial Site Genesis Memorials (Free online memorial) The GraveYard Shift In Memory of Kenny Borne John Lennon - Sam Choukri's "Bagism" Web Page Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page National EMS Memorial Web Page Perpetual Memorials Home Page [$$] Pet Related Sites Sharon Rockey's Goodbye to Mother The Quilt - Aids Memorial Web Site The Web Memorial Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall - index Virtual Heaven Virtual Memorials Virtual Memorial Garden United States Holocaust Memorial Museum World Wide Cemetery Writ in Water - International Gallery of Memorials for the Dead

Religious, Sociological, Philosophical or Cultural Specific

How our perceptions of death are shaped by our lives, religions, societies and cultures


1928 Book of Common Prayer: including the service for burial
Aids Interfaith Network
Ander's Transhuman Page
Ask Father Mateo [Archive] - Catholic Information Network
Being with Dying/Contemplative Approaches - Joan Halifax
Death and Dying in Contemporary Neo-Paganism
Death and Tibetan Buddhism - Reference List (Australian)
Does Secular Humanism Equip Us to Deal with Death?
Dying to This Life
Electric Mystic's Guide to the Internet
Funeral/Cremation Rites - a Royal Princess [Thailand]
Human Understood Reincarnation
International Jewish Burial Society
Kearl's Guide to the Sociology of Death
Life After Death/Rebirth - Benjamin Creme
Memoria - Spiritual Arts
On Youth and Old Age...[Aristotle]
Psychology Questionnaire - Death and Dying
Rusyn Folk Story - Husband Visiting from Dead
Sophocles 496-406 B.C.
The Will to Live - Feminists for Life
Tragic History of the "Omer" Season

Palliative Care, Hospice and Home Care

Palliative Care Victoria can be reached at (03) 9662 9644 or via email: info@pallcarevic.asn.au (Australian)
The Hospice Foundation of America can be reached at (202) 638-5419 or via email: hospicefdn@charitiesusa.com


Health Professionals and Health/Legal/Educational Topics

Resources especially helpful to Nurses, Physicians and health professionals

Aneurysm Support Page
Australian Institute For Suicide Research and Prevention (Australian)

Brain Death Resources
Cancer Pain Release Newsletter
Case Management and Hospice [MEGA]
ChronicIllnet
Compassion in Dying
Death Studies - magazine info
Depression in Primary Care - Glossary of Terms

Depression - Clinician Guide [AHCPR]
Disaster Handbook - UW
Do Not Resuscitate Orders (NY)
Dust to Dust - Organ, Tissue and Whole Body Donation (Iserson)
Dying in Dignity SIG - MENSA

Grief in a Family Context - Indiana U Education online
Guide to Psychotherapy on the WWW
Institute for Rational-Emotive Therapy
Journal of Personal and Interpersonal Loss - mag info
Living Wills/Power of Attorney
Long Term Care Today
Managing Grief - People with Developmental Disabilities [article]
Medical Investigator, UNM School of Medicine
MORTALITY - Academic journal on death, dying and bereavement
ONCOLINK - Univ of Penn Cancer Center resource
PainNet
Point of Death - Medical Ethics/Euthanasia
The Good Doctor's Oaths, Quotes, and Prayers for Physicians
TransWEB - Transplantation and Donation
Univ of Wisconsin Bioethics Online Gopher Service
Washington State Cancer Pain Initiative
Weight Loss Linked to Death in Nursing Homes
What Skills Needed to Care For Dying Patients (ACP)

When Death is Sought - NY Dept of Health
World Health Org. - Mortality Database


Pet or Animal Loss

Recognizing that the death of a pet is a distressing event

Dead Pet Page
Death of the Family Pet
Death in the Fast Lane (Greyhounds)
Model for Hospice Sheltering - for cats
Pet Cemetery
Pets Grief Support and Candle Ceremony

Survivors of Death, Trauma or Violence, and Near-Death (NDE)

For those who are alive with memories or have come close to death

Domestic Violence Hotlines
International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS)

MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving
Near Death Experiences
NIC - alt.consciousness.near-death-exp
Survivors of the Shoah - Virtual History Foundation
Theater of the Mind - Dr Raymond Moody [NDE]


Funerals, Burials, Wills and Related Information

Information on funeral or burial rites of any kind

Associated Catholic Cemeteries
Consumers Guide to Arranging a Funeral [NY Dept of Health]
Creative Endings
Falk Funeral Home [with Grief and Memorial Links]

Forensic Entomology
Funeral and Memorial Societies of America
Funeral Help Program
Funeral Industry Consultant [Skip Jones]
Genealogy Resource Page [including death certificates]
Green Burial

Living Wills - Advance Directive Index
NFDA Online [Nat'l Funeral Directors Association]
Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors [UK]
The Internet Cremation Society
Death in Articles, Arts, Literature and Stories

Death in "the arts" or articles from the famous and the unknowns.

A Beginning After the End [QRD]
Art/Photography Study: Belinda Di Leo MFA PROJECT

Astrophel - Edmund Spenser
Beethoven's Op. 81a and the Psychology of Loss [Music Theory Online]
Black Death - Plague and Public Health in Renaissance Europe
Chaplin's The Kid by Stephen Weissman MD
Chernobyl Poems by Liubov Sirota
Crossing Over - A Modern Book of the Dead (Geo Group)
Death and the Middle Ages - Tom Golden

Humanities - Literature and Medical Database
Jeanne La pucelle and the Dying God [Joan of Arc]

Salon: A Matter of Life and Death, Irvin Yalom interview[literature]
Salon: Choose Death, Fred Branfman [Literature]
Scientific Case Against Immortality
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
Terminals - The Cultural Production of Death (UC)
"The Doctor" [film summary]
WebMuseum - Bosch, Hieronymous: Death and the Miser
Whose Life is It Anyway?" [film summary]


Cemeteries, Memorials and Ancient Burials

Visit famous cemeteries and burial sites "virtually"

Al Alamein Beach
Association for Gravestone Studies Online
Cemetery Records of Hampton NH
City of the Silent
DAV Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Angel Fire, NM
International Jewish Cemetery Project
Mummies of the Inca [NOVA]
New Orleans Cemetery Images
Open Air Burials - Mongols
Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid
Page of the Dead
Political Graveyard
Small Towns, Black Lives - NJ Cemetery
Stone Pages - Megalithic Sites in Europe
The Electric Cemetery [Civil War]
U.S. Civil War Center - Chalmette National Cemetery
WWW Post Mortem Page

Eulogies and Related Writing Resources

Read eulogies and get help in writing them

Barlett's Familiar Quotations
Eulogy to Donald W. Kerst
Harvey Cohen's Eulogy
Internet Obituary Network [$]
Plan Your Epitaph Day (Nov 2 and April 6)
Rob Bernardo eulogies (soc.motss)
Roget's Thesaurus
The Internet Classics Archive

Books, Tapes, Video, Educational

Books, multimedia or related educational resources
Hard Medicine: A Journey in Adult Grief [videotape] (Australian)
Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
Youth Mental Health Series: Getting Over Grief (Australian)
The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying Widely recognized as the best-selling textbook in the field, The Last Dance is an interdisciplinary introduction to death, dying, and bereavement.
Meditations on Grief [CBS Radio - audiotapes $]
TMI: Going Home Learning Series
Together We Can Heal [audio $]

Related NewsGroups

Newsgroups related in some way to death and dying issues

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alt.support.grief
alt.support.grief.pet-loss

See also:

alt.consciousness.near-death-exp
alt.disasters.aviation
alt.infertility
alt.obituaries
alt.psychology.help
alt.sci.sociology
alt.soc.ethics
alt.society.mental-health
alt.suicide.holiday
alt.support.cancer
alt.support.cancer.prostate
alt.support.chronic.pain
alt.support.depression
alt.support.depression.manic
alt.support.depression.seasonal
alt.support.depression.treatment
alt.support.loneliness
misc.health.aids
misc.health.infertility
sci.life-extension
sci.med.aids
sci.med.diseases.als
sci.med.diseases.cancer
sci.philosophy
soc.support.loneliness
soc.support.pregnancy.loss

 
Last Updated: February 8th 2008
© 2008 Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement Inc.