A range of books that will teach and inspire you, as they have us. Purchasing through Amazon links will create Amazon gift cards we will use to buy products for the office and advocacy work.
Books that inspired us – about green burials
Our Natural Death book – Natural Burials NZ – click to buy directly from us
The New Natural Death Handbook, 3rd Edition (Albery, Wienrich, The Natural Death Centre UK) – https://amzn.to/42L4eSu
Ways to go: Naturally (Albery, The Natural Death Centre UK) – https://amzn.to/4n7X6XA
Reimagining Death: Stories and Practical Wisdom for Home Funerals and Green Burials (Herring, Spangler) – https://amzn.to/3J6GuBA
Green Burial: The D-I-Y Guide to Law and Practice (Bradford, The Natural Death Centre UK) – https://amzn.to/4hdzQGl
Greening Death: Reclaiming Burial Practices and Restoring Our Tie to the Earth (Kelly, 2017) – https://amzn.to/4nWzYwu
The Green Burial Guidebook: Everything You Need to Plan an Affordable, Environmentally Friendly Burial (Fournier, 2017) – https://amzn.to/4nM6LUM
The Green Burial Masterclass Companion (Webster) – https://amzn.to/3WFWDkw
Natural Burial: Landscape, Practice and Experience – https://amzn.to/4qarBig
DIY Funerals & Burials: a Legal Guide (Vicery, 2025, US) – https://amzn.to/43gdC0t
R.I.P.: The Complete Book of Death and Dying (Jones, 1997) – https://amzn.to/42IIgj3
Death: The trip of a lifetime (Palmer) – https://amzn.to/4o455Gc
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (Harris, 2008, US) – https://amzn.to/4786UL3
The Eco-Burial Handbook: Cost-Saving, Legal, and Sustainable End-of-Life Choices (Rhea) – https://amzn.to/3WGGYRY
Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death (Henry, Reyes) – https://amzn.to/4nTcubm
Death and Funeral Practices in Aotearoa New Zealand (Routledge International Focus on Death and Funeral Practices) (McManus) – https://amzn.to/4n3lf1z
Books that inspired us – On a good death, and grieving
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Doughty, US) – https://amzn.to/4qcBj3z
The Dying Time: Practical Wisdom for the Dying & Their Caregivers (Furman, McNabb 1997) – https://amzn.to/3JcOf96
Death Rights and Rites (Fenly, Zell – US) – https://amzn.to/3KWHYPg
A Good Death: A compassionate and practical guide to prepare for the end of life (Rice) – https://amzn.to/492bjSn
The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America (Neumann) – https://amzn.to/4nRWHcS
A Good Death: Making the Most of Our Final Choices (Martin) – https://amzn.to/48txjpb
Achieving a Good Death: A Practical Guide to the End of Life (Palmer) – https://amzn.to/491IiGw
In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife (Junger) – https://amzn.to/4n3FrQD
After Life (Wienrich, The Natural Death Centre) – https://amzn.to/3WbfpjA
Final Exit Digital Edition (2011 KE): The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying (Humphry) – https://amzn.to/46Vzb93
Books that inspired us – science and literature on nature
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate (Wohlleben, Biilinghurst, Flannery) – https://amzn.to/4omRIRt
Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Sheldrake) – https://amzn.to/474M6nS
Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (Oxford Landmark Science) (Lovelock) – https://amzn.to/4nb181k
Symbiotic Planet: A New Look At Evolution (Science Masters Series) (Margulis) – https://amzn.to/479KPvU
The Forest Wild: Poems of Henry David Thoreau – https://amzn.to/4nPWzdP
Leaves of Grass: Walt Whitman’s Poetic Celebration of Nature – https://amzn.to/4qcD9kZ
Walt Whitman’s Little Book of Selected Quotes: on Life, Love, and Poetry – https://amzn.to/48rBZvI
Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated) (Delphi Poets Series Book 34) – https://amzn.to/48sYMqY
Nature: Ralph Waldo Emerson’s Philosophical Reflections on the Natural World – https://amzn.to/47qhfU1
The Book of Nature: Wordsworth’s Poetry on Nature – https://amzn.to/4h8tXdi
Green Burial (Graf 2023) – https://amzn.to/48ygycy