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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.

“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.

Movie Review: “Come See Me In The Good Light,” Produced by Tig Notaro

A film about love, cancer, death, and poetry evokes ample tears while being 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

“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.

Movie Review: “Come See Me In The Good Light,” Produced by Tig Notaro A film about love, cancer, death, and poetry evokes ample tears while being 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

“The Wealth of Your Life” A handy spiral-bound booklet to prepare your ethical will in writing

“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.

Movie Review: “Come See Me In The Good Light,” Produced by Tig Notaro

A film about love, cancer, death, and poetry evokes ample tears while being 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

“The Wealth of Your Life”

A handy spiral-bound booklet to prepare your ethical will in writing