REsources: Books: Death

"The Doko" - story about death

From: Betty Skwarek

"The Doko" from "Spinning Tales, Weaving Hope"
Edited by Ed Brody, et. al. It is published by New Society Publishers, Philadelphia, PA.
My version is Copyright 1992. It was available through the UUA Bookstore.

Summary:

The child's parents buy a basket to take their infirm father away to leave him to die. The child asks his parents what the basket is for. They tell him. Then the child asks them to save the basket because he will need it some day for them.

Ended Beginnings: Healing Childbearing Losses

by Claudia Panuthos and Catherine Romeo,

Bergin & Garvey, 1984.

Miscarriage: Women Sharing From the Heart

by Marie Allen and Shelly Marks

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1993.

A timely and sensitive reflection on miscarriage for grieving women and those who are involved in their lives.

Badger's Parting Gifts

by Susan Varley

Badger's friends are sad when he dies, but they treasure the legacies he left them.

THE KEY INTO WINTER

by Janet S. Anderson... illustrated by David Soman

isbn 0 8075 4170 2

Terrific shildren's story about death and los

The Great Change

by White deer of Autumn

A native American story of death as a change, and still a part of the "Circle of Life."