Resources
For your convenience, we have provided a number of links to help you learn more about death, loss, grieving, and making funeral arrangements.

Death, Loss and Grief

Westchester Funeral Home Griefwords Library
The Griefwords library contains a variety of resources for the bereaved and caregivers alike. Brought to you by Alan Wolfelt, Ph.D.

Westchester Funeral Home's Thanatology Library

The Center for Loss - The Center for Loss and Life Transition is dedicated to furthering our understanding of grief.

  

Funeral Home Industry

Patient's Rights in New York State - information on prepaying funeral costs and arranging funerals in New York State

NYSFDA - New York State Funeral Directors Association

 

Internet Resources

Children and Grief
www.beyondindigo.com

www.aboutourkids.com

www.hospicenet.org

 

Grief
www.griefnet.org

www.premier.net

 

Hospice Care

Finding a local Hospice

FAQs about Hospice

Hospice Foundation

 

Widows and Widowers

www.youngwidowsandwidowers.com

www.widows-and-widowers.com

www.widows-widowers.org

  

Local Resources

Geneology Requests - Click for a list of area cemeteries
You must write a letter with all known information to:

New York State Department of Health
Vital Records Section
Attn: Geneology Unit
P.O. Box 2602
Albany, NY 12220
(518) 474-2005
(If exact year is known, or one year before or after record, death certificate is $11)
  

 

Loss of Pet

People universally grieve the death of their pet. Answers regarding this issue can be found in the booklet 'Death of a Pet...Answers to Questions for Children and Animal Lovers of All Ages.' Contact us for a complimentary copy of this popular booklet.

The Pet Loss Grief Support Website - a website for pet lovers who are grieving over the death of a pet or an ill pet

Death of a Pet - a directory of links concerning pet loss and bereavement

Hartsdale Pet Cemetery - the first pet cemetery & crematory in the United States

  
Our Thanatology Library
Our Thanatology Library was developed in 1980. We have utilized a room at the side of our building with a separate entrance for our library. Over the years students studying death and dying, social workers, hospice volunteers and our families have used the library extensively. We are continuously adding books to the library especially in the last few years with national emphasis on education in the field of death and dying.

We hope you as Funeral Directors, Cemeterians and Clergy will find this bibliography helpful. We would be glad to assist our colleagues in any way, as they continue in service to their families.

The Thanatology Library of the Westchester Funeral Home is made available to our community. Thanatology embraces the study of death and dying and it's related subject areas. The books and media resources in our lending library are available during the hours 10-4, Monday through Friday or by appointment. We are continually adding resources to our library so if you do not see a book or film listed, please call to see if it is now available. You may wish to use our library...

  • If you are bereaved and need to understand the emotions and feelings you are experiencing.
  • If you are a concerned relative, friend, or neighbor of a bereaved person, and hope to provide comfort.
  • If you are in a helping profession and need additional resources to share with your patients and clients to contribute to the healing process.
  • If you are a student of psychology, social work or education and need information to increase the scope of your knowledge about the stages and experiences associated with bereavement and loss.
    We each experience the death of someone we love in our own unique way. Your experience is right and valid for you. We at the Westchester Funeral Home hope that our lending library may be of service to you.
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