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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.

Film Poster for the film Worth
“Worth”

A film about the creation of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund dives into the moral complexity of assigning monetary value to human loss

“The Art of Dying Well”

Award-winning journalist highlights how to navigate aging in place, caring for dying loved ones, and managing terminal illnesses

Contemplations on Aging, Grief and the Supernatural Collide in Netflix’s “The Buroughs”

How the team behind “Stranger Things” created a sci-fi series that meaningfully explores the concepts of grief and society’s ageism

“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

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