Resources

Coping with Loss
Coping with loss can be a very difficult journey. ADEC has compiled these resources for individuals who are looking for help or who wish to offer support to another who is coping with a loss. ADEC's collection of resources for those dealing with loss. Coping with Loss

Links
These resources address specific issues of death and dying.

AARP Grief and Loss Resources
American Association of Suicidology
Americans for Better Care of Dying
Australian Centre for Grief and Bereavement
Barr-Harris Children's Grief Center
Bereaved Parents of the USA (BP/USA)
British Medical Journal Series: Coping with Loss
Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation
Centering Corp.
Children with AIDS Project
Children's Bereavement Center
City of Hope Pain/Palliative Care Resources Center (COHPPRC) 
Compassion Books
Compassion and Choices
Compassionate Friends
The Connecticut Hospice
Discovery Counseling Center
The Dougy Center
End of Life (NFDA)
Get Palliative Care
Gift From Within
Grief's Journey
GriefNet
GriefZone
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA)
Parents of Murdered Children (POMC)
Remembering Mom: The Barbara Franklin Foundation
SAVE: Suicide Awareness Voices of Education
Society of Counseling Psychologists
TAPS -- Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors 
Thanatolinks
Tom Golden's Web Healing Site

Web Cemeteries   
The Virtual Memorial Garden
World Wide Cemetery
Sadly Missed.com
Eternal Flames 
World Gardens

Webrings
Bright Stars Forever Pet WebRing
Angels of Our Hearts Webring 

Specialized Memorial Sites
The AIDS Memorial at The Body
The Virtual Wall

Pet Loss
CandleLighting at Rainbow Bridge
The Virtual Pet Cemetery
Bright Stars Forever Pet WebRing

Programs on Death and Dying
Links to media reports on death and dying

Finding Our Way: Living with Dying in America
Means to a Better End Report (PDF from the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation)
National Public Radio: The End of Life—Exploring Death in America

Chinese Grief Web Sites
Galaxy Internet Memorial Hall
Online Heaven
Graveyard for Flashing Back (Hong Kong)
Baby-Auspicious Tower
http://ap.iwant-in.net/miss/westen.asp?NO=7157 (memorializing a pet in a Christian style)
http://ap.iwant-in.net/miss/chinese.asp?NO=7104 (memorializing a friend in a Buddhist style)
http://www.30x30.com.tw/miss/index.asp ( Internet Columbarium for Memorializing (Taiwan))
http://www.30x30.com.tw/miss/sample/sam_f001024.htm (Columbarium in a Buddhist style)
http://www.30x30.com.tw/miss/sample/sam_c001024.htm (Columbarium example in a Christian style)

Related Societies
Links to societies addressing different aspects of death and dying

American Association of Suicidology (AAS)
American College of Forensic Examiners
American Counseling Association
American Hospice Foundation
American Psychological Association
American Psychosocial Oncology Society
American Society of Psychosocial & Behavioral Oncology/AIDS (ASPBOA)
Association of Oncology Social Work
Association of Nurses in AIDS Care
Center to Advance Palliative Care
Compassionate Friends
Hospice Foundation of America  
Hospice and Palliative Care Nurses Association
International Association of Near Death Studies (IANDS)
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
The Internet Cremation Society
National Funeral Directors Association
National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization   
National Center for Death Education (NCDE)
National Association of School Psychologists
National Palliative Care Research Center
OncoLink: University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center
Palliative Care Leadership Centers
PsychNet-UK

The Association for Death Education and Counseling is not responsible for the availability or content of these sites, nor does the ADEC endorse, warrant or guarantee the products, services or information described or offered at these other Internet sites. Users cannot assume that the external sites will abide by reasonable privacy practices.

Updated: February 10, 2009