Recommended Reading

Author: Joan Halifax
Publisher: Sounds True, Incorporated (1997)
Binding: Audio Cassette, pages
Image of What the Living Do: Poems
Author: Marie Howe
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (1999)
Binding: Paperback, 96 pages
Image of The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
Author: Joan Halifax
Publisher: Grove Press (2004)
Binding: Paperback, 272 pages
Image of On Death and Dying (Scribner Classics)
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Publisher: Scribner (1997)
Binding: Hardcover, 288 pages

Music Played

Image of Awakening
Artist: Joseph Curiale, Joseph Curiale, The Royal Philhramonic Orchestra/Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Dod Severinsen (trpt.), Ralph Morrison (violin), Mike Miller (guitar)
Label: Orchard Road
Image of Nuevo
Artist: Kronos Quartet, Severiano Briseno, Agustin Lara, Juan Garcia Esquivel, Traditional, Alberto Dominguez, Silvestre Revueltas, Osvaldo Golijov, Margarita Lecuona, Belisario Garcia de/ Elizondo, Jose Jesus, Ricardo Gallardo, Ariel Guzik, Chalino Sanchez, Cafe Tacuba, Luanne Warner
Label: Nonesuch
Image of LAGQ's Guitar Heroes
Artist: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Label: Telarc
Image of Gurdjieff, Tsabropoulos: Chants, Hymns and Dances
Artist: Georges Gurdjieff, Thomas de Hartmann, Vassilis Tsabropoulos, Anja Lechner
Label: ECM
Image of After the Rain
Artist: Satie, Roge
Label: Polygram Records
Image of The Cello Suites YO_YO MA Inspired By Bach From The Six-Part Film Series
Artist: Johann Sebastian Bach, Yo-Yo Ma
Label: Sony
Image of Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (LAGQ) Air & Ground
Artist: Andrew York, Carlos Rafael Rivera, Scott Tennant, Simon Jeffes, Morten Lauridsen, Paulo Bellinati, William Kanengiser, Miroslav Tadic, Benjamin Verdery, Sergio Assad, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
Label: Sony
Image of Philadelphia
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Sbme Special Mkts.

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    • Voices on the Radio

    Richard Payne

    In this audio interview, Krista and Dr. Payne, director of the Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life, discuss his work with palliative care for minority groups, the complex issues surrounding dying, and the role faith communities can play in this area.

    Joan Halifax

    Halifax is a medical anthropologist, Buddhist teacher, and founder of the Project on Being with Dying.