Resources for End of Life

Support and counseling

The UCSF Patient and Family Cancer Support Center has a list of bereavement support groups, counselors, hospice and other organizations dealing with end-of-life issues in the San Francisco Bay Area. Please call the Cancer Resource Center at (415) 885-3693 for the most updated list.

Internet

• GriefNet
• Growth House, Inc.
• On Our Own Terms
• Web Healing
• Willowgreen

Library materials

The following materials are available for a two-week loan period at the Cancer Resource Center. You also can buy them online or at any major bookstore.

• Bereaved Children and Teens, by Earl Grollman (Beacon Press, 1995)
• The Courage to Laugh, by Allen Klein (Penguin Putnam, Inc., 1998)
• Dying Well, by Dr. Ira Byock (Riverhead Books, 1997)
• Handbook for Mortals, by Dr. Joanne Lynn and Dr. Joan Harrold (Oxford University Press, 1999)
• How We Die, by Sherwin B. Nuland (Vintage Books, 1993)
• Intoxicated by My Illness, by Anatole Broyard (Fawcett Columbine, 1992)
• Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children, by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen (Bantam Books, 1983)
• Talking About Death: A Dialogue between Parent and Child, by Earl Grollman (Beacon Press, 1990)
• The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche (Harper San Francisco, 1993)
• Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom (Doubleday, 1997)
• When Someone Very Special Dies, by Marge Heegard (Woodland Press, 1988)
• "Death Is Not an Outrage," by Ram Doss (audio).
• "Health Journeys for People Experiencing Grief," by Belleruth Naparstek (audio).
• "A New Vision of Living and Dying," by Sogyal Rinpoche (video).
• "On Our Own Terms," by Bill Moyers (video).