Awake at the bedside: contemplative teachings on palliative and end-of-life care

Poem / Kozan Ichikyo

Transforming the care of serious illness / Diane Meier

Watch with me / Dame Cecily Saunders

Poem: The promise ; Poem: The gate ; Poem: For three days ; Poem: The last time ; Poem: What the living do / Marie Howe

Mindfulness is not a part-time job: dementia, flowers, and attention / Issan Dorsey

Unfinished business and how you know that you know / Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

Creating a dharma vision / Anyen Rinpoche

Poem: Lucky ; Poem: Medicine / Tony Hoagland

Meeting the divine messengers / Bhikkhu Bodhi

The healing encounter: meeting one another in the space between / Judy Lief

Poem: Hospital song ; Poem: Hospital writing workshop / Rafael Campo

Taking the precepts as your guide: how to approach difficult decisions, accept the consequences, and not keep yourself up all night / Craig D. Blinderman

Meditation practice: a practice of dying / Joseph Goldstein

Poem: the washing of the body / Nick Flynn

Redefining the metaphor for dying / Ram Dass

Acknowledging the shadow / Rodney Smith

Poem / Senryu

Becoming (and sustaining) the bodhisattvas we already are / Michael Kearney and Radhule Weininger

Poem: Appointment ; Poem: Afterbody ; Poem: Untitled / Jason Shinder

The raw spot / Norman Fischer

Poem: Love after love / Derek Walcott

A good enough death / Joshua Bright

A theravada approach to spiritual care of the dying and deceased / Gil Fronsdal

Poem: Touch me ; Poem: Passing through ; Poem: The layers / Stanley Kunitz

More than just a medical event / Kirsten DeLeo

Our real home / Ajahn Chah

Poem: For the anniversary of my death ; Poem: Separation / W.S. Merwin

Don't wait for tomorrow: six meditations on death and dying / Stephen and Ondrea Levine

Poem / Sunao

A lesson in compassion / Betsy MacGregor

Poem: A bowl ; Poem: Bird wings ; Poem: the guest house / Rumi

The third messenger: death is unavoidable / Larry Rosenberg

The last kiss / Fernando Kogen Kawai

Attunement: meditations on compassion / Frank Ostaseski

Poem: Turtle, swan ; Poem: The embrace / Mark Doty

In the silence of leaving / Robert Chodo Campbell

Four stories about seeing around the corner / Rachel Naomi Remen

Poem: Kindness / Naomi Shihab Nye

Finding what life is / Shodo Harada

Imagining people well / Ira Byock.