- About.com: Death and Dying
 - Examines many aspects of death and dying, including the writing of wills, different society's customs surrounding death, writing condolence cards, and preparing for one's own death. - Ash Factories: Crematories in Switzerland
- Photo essay illustrating the use of fire as a cleansing agent as well as a solution of postindustrial society to the problem of death.
- Asylum Eclectica, The
- Includes the Morbid Fact of the Day, Malady of the Month, plus other dark and gruesome facts, reviews, recommendations, and stories.
- Before I Die
- Personal stories about dealing with terminal illness from PBS.
- Beyond Indigo
- Collection of articles, advice, online forums, and support resources dealing with end of life issues, grief, and loss.
- Beyond the Road's End
- True story of a couple's journey through glioblastoma diagnosis, treatments, support, death and dying.
- Center for Advanced Illness Coordinated Care (CAICC)
- Presents health care providers with model for improving end-of-life care and offers patients guidance and support for dealing with advanced illness and death.
- Crossings: Caring for Our Own at Death
- Resources and services for those who are looking for alternatives to standard funerals.
- Death and Dying Resources
- Resource site containing insights into the nature of soul and how dying people teach us to live long after they die.
- Dying Is ...
- Originally a blog by Grace Chow who was suffering from a rare tumor on her neck, it now serves as a memorial that documents her battle with the illness and her last days.
- Funerals: A Consumer Guide
- Resources on funerals from the Federal Trade Commission.
- Growth House
- Gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life issues. Also provides a private meeting facility in San Francisco for bereavement, education and death and dying support groups.
- Heart-to-Heart: Caring for the Dying
- Radio documentary series by Claire Schoen, exploring the care given by doctors, hospitals, clergy, family, and friends to people at the end of life.
- Heaven's Mail
- Provides service by sending mail to loved ones on special occasions after their death.
- Last Rights
- Approaches how to discuss death and how to ensure that your wishes are obeyed when you are dying. Presented by the Scripps Howard Newspapers.
- Laurence Hutton Collection of Life and Death Masks
- Pictorial guide by John Delaney. From the Manuscripts Division of Rare Books and Special Collections at Princeton University Library
- Leading Causes of Death Reports
- Find out the leading causes of death in the United States for demographic variables of your choice. Computed from annual mortality data compiled by the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention.
- On Our Own Terms: Moyers on Dying
- Learn about solutions for finding a better death and explore the options for humane care for the dying.
- P.O.V.: A Family Undertaking
- PBS film explores the growing home-funeral movement, following several families as they reclaim the end of life, forgoing a mortuary funeral to care for loved ones at home.
- Patients' Rights in New York State
- Information on, health care proxy, prepaying funeral costs, assisted suicide and euthanasia, bioethics policy, and advance directives.
- Preplanning Network
- Discusses the benefits of preplanning, prearranging funeral arrangements. Learn about local funeral homes, cemeteries, crematorium's, and monument dealers.
- Seeing the Difference/ Seeing Differently
- Interdisciplinary conversations on death and dying, including perspectives from the arts, humanities, and medicine. Sponsored by University of California, Berkeley's Townsend Centre for the Humanities.
- Social Security Death Index (SSDI)@
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Death
- Encyclopedia article provides a philosophical examination of death. Examines questions such as what constitutes death, whether the process of death harms the person who is dying, and whether death is always a bad thing.
- Taphophilia.com
- Everything you need to know about death from the beginning until the end.
- Whose Right To Die?
- Information about the legalization of physician-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia.
- Wikipedia: Death
- User-created article about death. Includes an examination of the biological process of dying, signs of approaching death, and customs surrounding death.
- With Eyes Open
- Honest discussions about caregiving, grief, difficult decisions, and the afterlife. Offers stories, lesson plans, after death, and what to expect during grieving.
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