Death Work Resources

A caring collection of guides, rituals, and tools for navigating transitions, honoring ancestors, and exploring the mysteries of death and rebirth.

 

A collection of death and grieving resources that I have found helpful.

I am not sponsored by any of these groups. This page is updated monthly.

 

Death Witchcraft

Death Witchcraft: Volume 1 & Volume 2 – Yunan Kirkbride

Death Tarot Zine – TwentyTwoZines

 

Death and Dying Practices & Customs

Do I Have to Wear Black? – Mortellus
Scottish folk magic and the dead (an introduction) – cailleachs-herbarium
Holy Death in the Time of Coronavirus: Santa Muerte, the Salubrious Saint – Kate Kingsbury and R. Andrew Chesnut

 

End of Life Planning

My End-of-Life Decisions – Compassion & Choices (Free printable download)

INELDA (INTERNATIONAL END OF LIFE DOULA ASSOCIATION)

Dying Pagan: Managing A Special Needs Kinda Death – Katrina Rasbold

Cake – End of life planning with free and paid resources

Document Checklist: A complete guide for families – A Mesothelioma legal resource (Asbestos.com)

 

Grief & Bereavement support

Dougy – free resources and grief support group facilitator

HuffPost – How To Process The Death Of Someone Who Negatively Affected Your Life

Worts + Cunning Apothecary – By Way of Sorrow : Healing Magick for Times of Grieving (Free printable download)

Listening Line – Grief Hotline by ASacredPassing.org

How Tattoos Help Us Grieve – OrderOfTheGoodDeath.com

ModernLoss.com – “Candid conversation about grief. Beginners welcome.” Psychology Today – David B. Feldman Ph.D. – The Power of Rituals to Heal Grief

How your brain copes with grief, and why it takes time to heal – NPR – Berly McCoy

Lamentation of the Witches – Grief and Mourning for the Modern World – Glasse Witch Cottage – Irene Glasse

Curative Magic: Dealing with Grief – Rachel Patterson Ancient and Modern Ritual: A Creative Approach to Working with Grief, Loss, and Change – Samantha Black  

History of Death

Death and the Afterlife – Clifford A. Pickover

 

General Death & Grief Education

TalkDeath – Death Positive, Grief & Bereavement Services

Death, The Great Teacher – Ritualcravt Journal

Very Well Health – End of life concerns

Justin Gregg – What Does Animal Grief Tell Us About How They Understand Death?

DeathWives – A curated Death Doula directory, book, and film list of death and grief resources

National Geographic –  Rachel Nuwer – The Rainbow Bridge: Author and Pet story Discovered TIME mag. – Nicole Chung – The Person I Became After My Father’s Death Column: Rituals for Grieving Change – WildHunt.org –  Crystal Blanton

https://withrespect.life/ – Support and advice for difficult times

Gnosis Diary: Life as a Heathen – A Different Kind of Near Death Experience – Erin Lale

 

Death, Grief & Creativity

A Course in Dying – Art reviews and interviews with a death motif

Grief in Six Words – A free public grief sharing project

On “The Sims,” Cottagecore, and Disassociating Through Grief – P. Claire Dodson Passed and Present – Allison Gilbert

 

Death/Cthonic Deity Work

On Death and Dying – Ritualcravt Journal (Santa Muerte)

Keeping Her Keys – Prayer & Ritual to Hekate For the Dead

TheWayOfTheWitch – Healing With Hades

 

Tarot for Death Processing

Lessons of Loss: Tarot Spread for Grief – Ritualcravt Journal

Grief Tarot Spread – Emerald Lotus

Best Tarot Cards for Grief and Healing – Witches Of The Craft

Using The Tarot in Times of Grief and Loss – Avia – TarotTeachings.com

 

Ancestor work

The Zen Pagan – Parental death ancestor work and the search for love

Christine Kraemer – Ancestor work: It’s Not Always About Honoring

Storm Faerywolf – Becoming the Queer Ancestors

Grove And Grotto – Michelle Gruben – Honoring Pagan elders: Five simple ways to show your love