Bereavement resources to help you get through this difficult time.

Association for Death Education and Counseling (www.adec.org) - Offers education on death, bereavement counseling, and care of the dying.

Barbara Karnes Books (www.gonefrommysight.com) - Booklets about living with a life-limiting illness, the dying process, and grieving.  Available in different languages including Spanish and Russian.

DyingWell.org (www.dyingwell.org) - This web site provides written resources and information from Dr. Ira Byock, long time palliative care physician and advocate for improved end-of-life care.

Growth House, Inc. (www.growthhouse.org) - International web site of resources focusing on life-threatening illness and end of life care.

Hospice Foundation of America (www.hospicefoundation.org) - A nonprofit organization that promotes hospice care and works to educate professionals and the families they serve in issues relating to care giving, terminal illness, loss and bereavement.

Hospice Net (www.hospicenet.org/html/bereavement.html) -This site provides a guide to the grief process, helps identify needs, helps teens and young children cope with grief and many others resources for those experiencing the loss of a loved one.

There was no sudden, striking and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight, when you first notice them they have already been going on for some time.           -- C.S. Lewis A Grief Observed