Funeral planning
Recommended Reading List: Funeral Planning
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: Big Questions from Tiny Mortals about Death by Caitlin Doughty
Rest In Peace: A Cultural History of Death and the Funeral Home in the 20th Century by Gary Ladermann
The Good Funeral: Death, Grief and the Community of Care by Thomas Long & Thomas Lynch
On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death by Robert Kastenbaum
Death’s Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches us about Live and Living by Brandy Schillace
The Perfect Strangers Guide to Funerals and Grieving Practices by Stuart Maltins
The American Resting Place – 400 Years of History Through our Cemeteries & Burial Grounds by Marilyn Yalmon
When We Die: The Science, Culture and Rituals of Death by Cedric Mims’
The American Way of Death Revisited by Jessica Mitford
The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America by Ann Neuman
Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach
Death, Mourning and Burial: A Cross-Cultural Reader by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Death, American Style: A Cultural History of Dying in America by Lawrence R. Samuel
Awaiting the Heavenly Country: The Civil War and American Culture of Death by Mark Schantz
The Undertaking: Life Studies from a Dismal Trade by Thomas Lynch
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life by Caleb Wilde
Recommended Reading List: Obituary Writing
The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries by Marilyn Johnson
The Very Best of the Daily Telegraph Books of Obituaries by Hugh Massingberd
If You Lived Here, I’d Know Your Name by Heather Lende
The Last Word: The New York Times Book of Obituaries and Farewells by Marvin Siegel
Find the Good: Unexpected Life Lessons from a Small-Town Obituary Writer by Heather Lende