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Category: Lending Insight

From our end-of-life media library

Sometimes the right book or film offers exactly the understanding we seek. This column reviews our curated media library, covering everything from grief and aging to emerging practices like green burial and death doulas. Through documentaries, memoirs, and classics exploring illness, loss, and how death affects family relationships, you’ll find stories that resonate with your own journey. These thoughtful reviews help you discover methods, advice, and direction that inform crucial decisions and provide comfort when words alone aren’t enough.

‘Hamnet’

A film about the loss of William Shakespeare’s son shows how differently couples can grieve

“Helen’s Birds”

A wordless graphic novel about an intergenerational friendship and a young girl’s experience with loss and grief

“Field of Dreams”

This classic sports movie is a surprisingly insightful look at life and death through the lens of the American pastime, baseball

Revisiting The American Way of Death: Jessica Mitford’s Exposé of the Funeral Industry

Re-reading Mitford’s classic on death, dignity and profiteering

“Come See Me In The Good Light”

A film about love, cancer, death, and poetry will likely make you cry, but it is still incredibly life-affirming

Have You Considered What to Read Before you Die?

A book about 1001 movies to see before you die nicely highlights the greatest moments of the Boomer generation

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Category: Lending Insight

‘Hamnet’ A film about the loss of William Shakespeare’s son shows how differently couples can grieve

“Helen’s Birds” A wordless graphic novel about an intergenerational friendship and a young girl’s experience with loss and grief

“Field of Dreams” This classic sports movie is a surprisingly insightful look at life and death through the lens of the American pastime, baseball

Revisiting The American Way of Death: Jessica Mitford’s Exposé of the Funeral Industry Re-reading Mitford’s classic on death, dignity and profiteering

“Come See Me In The Good Light” A film about love, cancer, death, and poetry will likely make you cry, but it is still incredibly life-affirming

Have You Considered What to Read Before you Die? A book about 1001 movies to see before you die nicely highlights the greatest moments of the Boomer generation