Abstract
When I taught the first course dealing with death and bereavement in 1967, the only book available, aside from those written in the religious traditions, was Elisabeth Kubler-Ross's On Death and Dying (1). In 1982, the first King's College Conference on Death and Bereavement had only twenty-one titles in the book exhibit. Today, I have over 10,000 titles in my computer listing, and that is not even representative, much less complete. It is impossible for the professional thanatologist to read all that is now available, much less the interested professional from fields other than thanatology. This article is written to provide readers of International Journal of Group Tensions with an overview of what I consider to be the most important print resources in the English language dealing with death and bereavement. The contemporary death awareness movement began with the publication of Herman Feifel's The Meaning of Death (2). This edited work flowed from his work with veterans in Los Angeles and from his groundbreaking seminar about death with the American Psychological Association, as well as from the insights of Dr. Cecily Saunders' pioneering work with terminally ill persons in England.
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