Links to online grief and bereavement resources
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Links are grouped under the following headings:
- General Death, Dying and Bereavement Resources
- Aging, Growth, Mental Health, and Healing
- Depression, Anxiety and Suicide
- Children, Adolescents, Neonates and Family Support
- Religious, Sociological, Philosophical or Cultural Specific
- Palliative Care, Hospice and Home Care
- Health Professionals and Health/Legal/Educational Topics
- Pet or Animal Loss
- Survivors of Death, Trauma or Violence, and Near-Death (NDE)
- Funerals, Burials, Wills and Related Info
- Death in Articles, Arts, Literature and Stories
- Cemeteries, Memorials and Ancient Burials
- Eulogies and Related Writing Resources
- Books, Tapes, Video, Educational
General Death, Dying and Bereavement Resources
Cruse Bereavement Care - Promotes the well-being of bereaved people and to enable anyone bereaved by death to understand their grief and cope with their loss. Services are free to bereaved people. The UK charity provides support and offers information, advice, education and training services.
- Australian Resources:
- Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement - Australia's largest provider of grief and bereavement education offering a comprehensive range of support options
GriefLink - An information resource on death-related grief for the community and professionals. As the site is based in South Australia some information about support services and educational activities is specific to that State.
Carers Australia - Dealing with Loss & Grief
CareSearch - An online resource of palliative care information and evidence
Australian Child & Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network - The network aims to promote understanding of child and adolescent trauma, loss and grief- The Bereavement Care Centre - provide comprehensive and accessible counselling and support services for the terminally ill and their families, and for those recently bereaved
International Resources:
Association for Death Education and Counseling - ADEC is one of the oldest interdisciplinary organizations in the field of dying, death and bereavement. Its nearly 2,000 members include a wide array of mental and medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors and volunteers
Hospice Foundation of America - Hospice Foundation of America provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care with the goal of enhancing the U.S. health care system and the role of hospice within it.
Crisis, Grief, and Healing [Tom Golden] Webhealing.com was the internet's first interactive grief web site and has served the bereaved on the net since 1995. It offers grief discussion boards where men and women can discuss issues related to grief and healing.
GriefNet - GriefNet.org is an Internet community of persons dealing with grief, death, and major loss.
Skylight - Skylight, based in New Zealand, provides support for grieving children and teenagers, and those caring for them.
Growth House - Death and Bereavement
Grief Recovery Institute
Lifewords Publishing
Medline Plus - Bereavement
The Body: A MultiMedia AIDS and HIV Information Resource
Aging, Growth, Mental Health, and Healing
Focused on healing and mental health, in the face of changes like death and aging.
- Australian Resources:
- International Resources:
- 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
Beyondblue
- Australian Resources:
beyondblue is a national, independent, not-for-profit organisation working to address issues associated with depression, anxiety and related substance misuse disorders in Australia.
Support After Suicide is a program of Jesuit Social Services and is funded by the Department of Health and Ageing under the National Suicide Prevention Strategy.
Living Is For Everyone
The Living Is For Everyone (LIFE) website is a suicide and self-harm prevention resource, aimed at reducing the rate at which people take their lives in Australia.
- International Resources:
- 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
- Australian Resources:
Kids Helpline
- HeadHigh
Information and resources specifically for young people bereaved through suicide.- Reach Out
A web-based service that inspires young people to help themselves through tough times.1800 55 1800
24 hour telephone and online counselling for children and young people in Australia.SIDS Australia Online provides information about Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, services and publications for families who experience a death through SIDS, and updated research reports. Includes translations of information about safely preparing a babyâ#€#™#s cot.
- SIDS and Kids (Australian)
Established in 1991, the Centre for Adolescent Health is recognised nationally and internationally for its commitment and achievements in advancing young people's health and wellbeing. The Centre responds to the health problems that affect young people between the ages of 10 and 24 years.
- Centre for Adolescent Health (Australian)
The Compassionate Friends Victoria Inc. is part of a world-wide organisation offering friendship and understanding to families following the death of a son or daughter, brother or sister. TCF offers support in the grief and trauma which follows the death of a child at any age and from any cause.
- The Compassionate Friends (TCF) - Victoria (Australian)
Road Trauma Support Services
- Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Support (SANDS) (Australian)
- This site includes many items of interest to parents who have experienced miscarriage, stillbirth or neonatal death, including articles by other parents, a list of SANDS publications, online support and contacts for state branches.
The Road Trauma Support Team Victoria was established in 1994 after a group of concerned individuals with direct experience of road trauma joined with professionals working in the area of trauma and grief to provide a support service. Since then the organisation has grown, and now offers a range of services including professional counsellors to assist people affected by road trauma.
- International Resources:
- Dougy Centre
Support for children, teens, young adults and families grieving a death.Winston's Wish
Winston's Wish helps bereaved children and young people rebuild their lives after a family death. They also offer practical support and guidance to families, professionals and anyone concerned about a grieving child.RD4U
In a six-part series, from April 2 to April 9, 1995 The San Francisco Examiner explored the trials and triumphs of children facing the task of caring for an aging parent.
RD4U is a bereavement web site in the UK and is aimed at young people, mainly between 12 and 18 years old. There is a booklet titled after someone dies available on this site.
- CareGiver Network Inc
- Caregiving Online
- International Childbirth Education Association
- Children with Aids Project
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
Raindrop - Death Education For Children of All Ages
Skylight - Skylight, based in New Zealand, provides support for grieving children and teenagers, and those caring for them.
WIC Biography - Ann Armstrong Dailey
Religious, Sociological, Philosophical or Cultural Specific
How our perceptions of death are shaped by our lives, religions, societies and culturesDeath and Tibetan Buddhism - Reference List (Australian)
- Australian Resources:
1928 Book of Common Prayer: including the service for burial
- International Resources:
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
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
Australian Resources:
Palliative Care Victoria - the peak body representing palliative care providers, consumers and their families and those with an interest in palliative care in Victoria.
Palliative Care Australia - the peak national organisation representing the interests and aspirations of all who share the ideal of quality care at the end of life for all.The Hospice Foundation of America - provides leadership in the development and application of hospice and its philosophy of care with the goal of enhancing the U.S. health care system and the role of hospice within it.
- International Resources:
Academy of Hospice Physicians Home Page
Amitabha Hospice (based in Wellington New Zealand with a Buddhist philosophy)
American Pain Society
Behavior Online - Mental Health and Behavioral Science California State Hospice Association Cancer Facts: Hospice
(NCI/PDQ)Cancer News on the Net - Richard KJ Brown MD
Care Teams and Information for the CaregiverConnecticut Hospice - First Hospice in America
Developing Palliative Care Services - Saudi Arabia
Dr Stall's Hospice Home Page Essential Characteristics of Hospice CareFamily Caregiver Alliance Helpful Essential Links to Palliative care [HELP]HOMECARE Online
Hope House [Children's Hospice, UK]
Internat'l Association of Physicians in AIDS Care
Lend-A-Heart (hospice volunteerism)
Mayo-Roscommon Hospice - Ireland
New River Valley Hospice, Virginia
Health Professionals and Health/Legal/Educational Topics
Resources especially helpful to nurses, medical practitioners and health professionals
Australian Institute For Suicide Research and Prevention (Australian)
- Australian Resources:
- International Resources:
Cancer Pain Release Newsletter
Case Management and Hospice [MEGA]
Depression in Primary Care - Glossary of Terms
Depression - Clinician Guide [AHCPR]
Do Not Resuscitate Orders (NY)
Dust to Dust - Organ, Tissue and Whole Body Donation (Iserson)
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
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
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)
Pet or Animal Loss
- Australian Resources:
Support group programs conducted by the Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement following the death of a companion animal
International Resources:
- 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
- Australian Resources:
- International Resources:
International Association for Near Death Studies (IANDS)
MADD - Mothers Against Drunk Driving
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 kindAssociated Catholic Cemeteries
- Australian Resources:
- International Resources:
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 "the arts" or articles from the famous and the unknown.
- Australian Resources:
- International Resources:
The website of Sandra L. Bertman, PhD, FT, a Distinguished Professor of Thanatology and Arts at the National Center for Death Education, Mount Ida College. Synthesizing visual and creative arts, literature, spiritual values, and cultural beliefs, Dr. Bertmanâ#€#™#s expertise is cultivating the therapeutic imaginations of clinicians in clinical and academic settings through illustrated lecture-presentations and workshops. For most of her career, Bertman was Professor of Humanities in Medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School and Graduate School of Nursing, and founding Director of the Program of Medical Humanities and Arts in Healthcare.
Healing grief through art: Art therapy bereavement group workshops
This paper by Malinda Ann Hill, explores the value of art therapy in bereavement.
A Beginning After the End [QRD]
Art/Photography Study: Belinda Di Leo MFA PROJECT
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
Terminals - The Cultural Production of Death (UC)
Cemeteries, Memorials and Ancient Burials
Visit famous cemeteries and burial sites "virtually"Al Alamein Beach
- Australian Resources:
- International Resources:
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
- Australian Resources:
- International Resources:
- 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, multimedia or related educational resources
Books, Tapes, Video, Educational
The Hospice Foundation of America
- Australian Resources:
Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement Resource materials- Hard Medicine: A Journey in Adult Grief [DVD]
Youth Mental Health Series: Getting Over Grief
- International Resources:
The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying Widely recognized as a best-selling textbook in the field, The Last Dance is an interdisciplinary introduction to death, dying, and bereavement.
A wide range of DVD and printed material is available which addresses themes of bereavement; hospice care; pain management; ethical dilemmas; coping with public tragedy; Alzheimer's disease; children, adolescent, and loss in later life.