End-of-Life Options:

• Compassion and Choices supports Medical Aid in Dying options legislation state by state.

• End of Life Options - Colorado is the most important and informed local group of professionals regarding MAID support in Colorado.

• Green Burial Council is a way of caring for the dead with minimal environmental impact that aids the conservation of natural resources.

• Moon Over Mountains Threshold Choir is a community of singers whose mission is to offer the comfort of song to those at the thresholds of living and dying.

• Funeral Consumer Society of Colorado is a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to protecting consumers’ rights to choose meaningful, dignified, affordable funerals.

• Final Exit Network supports the human right to a death with dignity.

• Grief Pilgrim helps you step into the territory of Soul with grief.

End-of-Life Reading Recommendations:

• The Five Invitations, by Frank Osteseski

• In the Slender Margin: The Intimate Strangeness of Death and Dying, by Eve Joseph

• A Very Easy Death, by Simone de Beauvoir

• Finding Frances: There's More to Life than Living and More to Death than Dying, by Janice M. Van Dyck

• On Living, by Kerry Egan (the author is a hospice chaplain)

• Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal, by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.

• The Art of Dying Well, by Katy Butler 

• Holding Space, On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go, by Amy Wright Glenn

• Heartwood: The Art of Living with the End in Mind, by Barbara Becker

• Grief is Love, by Marisa Renee Lee

• Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Face of Death, by Joan Halifax

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow, by Francis Weller

• Die Wise, by Stephen Jenkinson

• Death Rights and Rites, by Rev Judith Karen Fenley

• Sacred Dying, by Megory Anderson

• A Deeper Perspective on Alzheimer's and Other Dementias, by Megan Carnarius

• Awake at the Bedside, by Koshin Paley Ellison and Matt Weingast

• The Undying Soul – A Cancer Doctor’s Discovery, by Stephen J. Iacoboni, MD 

For Children:

• Graeme Goes Home, by Maggie Pitkethly from Boulder - about a young girl who loses her young friend and her conversation with a butterfly

• The Invisible String, by Patrice Karst - a relatable and reassuring contemporary classic where a mother tells her two children that they’re all connected by an invisible string

• Always Remember, Cece Meng - after Old Turtle swims his last swim and the waves gently take him away, his friends lovingly remember how he impacted each and every one of them

• The Death of Cupcake: A Child’s Experience with Loss, by Susan Nicholas, MD - exposes the intersection of grief and consciousness from a child’s perspective

• I'm on Hospice, by Sydney Crane - everything has a purpose and Riley’s Hospice Care Team has a very special purpose

• Duck, Death and the Tulip, by Wolf Erlbruch - a duck strikes up an unlikely friendship with Death where they play together and discuss big questions

• One Wave At A Time, by Holly Thompson - after his father dies, Kai experiences all kinds of emotions: sadness, anger, fear, and guilt. Sometimes they crash and mix together, other times, there are no emotions at all.

• Everyone Dies – and yes, it is normal, by Marianne Matzo, PhD, FAAN and Darlene Domanik - a story about a young boy who finds something special on the beach and learns some valuable lessons from grandpa Pops.