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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.

“Grave of the Fireflies”

Beloved Japanese animation company Studio Ghibli delivers one of the saddest films of all time about grief and loss during war.

“The Group: Seven Widowed Fathers Reimagine Life”

The stories of widowers with young children are shared alongside the latest bereavement research for a helpful, male-centered resource

“Carry Me: Stories of Pregnancy Loss”

The author compiles real stories of the emotional and physical challenges of miscarriage as she grieves her own loss

“Suncoast”

Set against the backdrop of the controversial Terri Schiavo case, this film follows Doris as her adolescence unfolds alongside her brother Max’s illness and hospice death

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‘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

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