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How To Resources

This section provides resources for caregivers who are dealing with grieving families. Also, there are helpful books such as a guide for giving eulogies.

The Gift of Significance: Walking People Through a Loss
This book should be the guidebook for health care professionals, caregivers, friends, clergy, support groups and hospice personnel in how to help others deal with the many issues surrounding a death. It outlines the importance of establishing the significance of the person, allowing for dying rituals and approaching grieving as a healthy process-not one to be avoided.


Goodnight, Sweet Prince: You Can Give a Eulogy
Helps people write and present rich and meaningful eulogies; includes four examples and step-by-step instructions to write a meaningful tribute.

Creating Meaningful Funeral Ceremonies
A guide for caregivers to create a meaningful funeral or memorial ceremonies.

Comforting Those Who Grieve: A Guide for Helping Others
This warm, insightful resource fully explains the grief process and outlines how friends, ministers, and other counselors can help those mourning the death of a loved one.

Transitions - A consumer guide to end-of-life issues and funerals
This book is a series of newspaper articles to answer consumers' questions about funeral service and give them information about working through situations that survivors may face. Created by the NYS Funeral Directors Association.

Funerals: A Consumer Guide
This booklet was created by the Federal Trade Commission to help the consumer through legal issues revolving around the funeral industry.

The Helper's Journey
Working with caregivers facing grief, loss, and life-threatening illness of someone they love.

The Memorial Rituals Book For Healing And Hope
A resource guide for those who want to understand and facilitate the mourning process of an individual. Has activities for both children and adults.


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