The Good Funeral: Death, Grief, and the Community of Care, by Thomas G. Long & Thomas Lynch

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, by Mary Roach

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory, by Caitlin Doughty

Life on the Death Beat: A Handbook for Obituary Writers, by Alana Baranick, Jim Sheeler & Stephen Miller

Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modem Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial, by Mark Harris

Funeral Customs: From ancient to modem, by Bertram S. Puckle

Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death, by Joshua Slocumb, Executive Director Funeral Consumer's Alliance and Lisa Carlson, Executive Director Funeral Ethics Organization

The American Way of Death: Revisited, by Jessica Mitford