Recommended Books
The Last Wishes Booklet - a unique journal to curate your end of life wishes.
We are all going to die book by Leah Kaminisky
Dying For A Chat - By Australian Medical Oncologist Ranjana Srivastaba contends that our Healthcare Professionals are ill equipped for frank discussions with patients, leading to misdiagnosis, avoidable medical complications and even death.
A Better Death - By Australian Medical Oncologist Ranjan Srivastaba. Conversations about the art of living and dying well.
The Four Things that Matter Most - Dr Ira Byock - Four simple phrases: “Please forgive me,” “I forgive you,” “Thank you,” and “I love you” — carry enormous power to mend and nurture our relationships and inner lives. These four phrases and the sentiments they convey can help us resolve interpersonal difficulties with integrity and grace.
The Top 5 Regrets of the Dying by Australian Author, Bronnie Ware. A bestselling memoir, read by more than a million people worldwide. Available in 32 languages.
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish I had let myself be happier.
Sacred Dying by Megory Anderson. Creating rituals by embracing end of life.
The Needs of the Dying by David Kessler. A Guide for Bringing Hope, Comfort, and Love to Life's Final Chapter.
A Good Death: a compassionate and practical guide to prepare for the end of life - by Australian Journalist Margaret Rice and Author of her blog, Good Grief.
LifeTimes - book on how to talk with children about death
Top 10 children's books on death and bereavement by The Guardian
The Rest Easy Journal – is a 94-page hard-copy journal that prompts you through five important topics: what to do when you die, a record of your digital footprint, your financial and business matters, your funeral wishes and a ‘life snapshot’.
Recommended Podcasts
The Pineapple Podcast Season 4 with Jan Fran
What to send to a funeral instead of flowers via What’s Your Grief
We need to talk about Death - BBC Radio
Better Off Dead by Andrew Denton
Rhyming the Dead via The Red Room Company
Cory Taylor on dying for beginners via the Conversation Hour with Richard Fidler ABC
Meshel Laurie’s Nitty Gritty Committee - Let’s talk about the very thing we like to talk about the least. From why we need to teach our kids about it, to what makes a nice death and what happens in your final days.
Recommended Movies and Documentaries
Love in our own time - Australian Documentary a film by Tom Murray and Madeleine Hetherton, is a documentary on the big things in life: birth, love, and death.
After Life - Is a British black comedy drama series created, written, produced, and directed by Ricky Gervais. Set in the fictional town of Tambury, After Life follows newspaper writer Tony Johnson, whose life is turned upside down after his wife dies from breast cancer.
Good Grief Set in small town NZ, two sisters inherit a funeral home from their koro. By staring death in the face everyday, Ellen and Gwen Goode begin to confront the realities of their own life, and what they want to make of it. They will eventually discover that, while at times confronting, being able to help families cope with loss is also a heart-warming opportunity.
Sorry for your loss - a young woman struggling to put her life back together in the wake of her husband's unexpected death. As the loss upends and transforms nearly every relationship in Leigh's life, it also forces her to realise there was a lot about her husband she didn't know.
Six Feet Under - A drama series that takes a darkly comical look at members of a dysfunctional family that runs an independent funeral home.
The Good Place - A smart, unique new comedy about what makes a good person. The show follows Eleanor Shellstrop (Kristen Bell), an ordinary woman who enters the afterlife and, thanks to some kind of error, is sent to the Good Place instead of the Bad Place, which is definitely where she belongs.