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Updated 9/21/2011
Recommended core reading and resources to help you create an ethical will

Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper, 2nd edition
by Barry K. Baines, M.D. Da Capo Press, 2006. This comprehensive, step-by-step resource gently guides you through the process of creating what can be one of the most valuable and cherished documents you leave behind.

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Women's Lives, Women's Legacies: Passing Your Beliefs and Blessings to Future Generations: Creating Your Own Spiritual-Ethical Will by Rachael Freed

This book shows women how to create an enduring document that expresses who they are, what they value, and how they want to be remembered.

The Ethical Will Writing Guide Workbook

by Barry K. Baines, MD, 2001
Contains background information on ethical wills with a complete outline structure and item choices to help you create a first draft in about an hour. An ideal approach to use if you need something to go on right away.

The Ethical Will Resource Kit

by Barry K. Baines, MD, 1998
The "kit" contains background information on ethical wills, a series of easy-to-follow exercises to create your ethical will, a number of examples of modern ethical wills, space for note-taking and jotting down ideas, and a list of additional references. Both are available at
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"Words from the HEART" by Eric Weiner uses inspiriting quotes, challenge questions and examples to guide you through the process of writing an ethical will. Available at http://www.familylegacyadvisor.com

Another Morning: Voices of Truth and Hope from Mothers with Cancer by Linda Blachman, Seal Press, 2006.
A tapestry of voices from ordinary women coping with every mother’s nightmare: a cancer diagnosis while raising children.

The Wealth of Your Life: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will (Spiral-bound) by Susan Turnbull
An excellent edition to the resources available to help people create an ethical will.

So That Your Values Live On
by Jack Riemer and Nathaniel Stampfer, Jewish Lights Publishing, 1991

One of the first books published on ethical wills. Provides valuable information on ethical wills and many examples from the 1800's through the 1970's.

Tuesdays With Morrie
by Mitch Albom, Doubleday, 1997

This book provides the essence of what ethical wills are all about. Morrie's story is told with compassion and courage.

Man's Search For Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl, Simon and Schuster, 1984
This book stresses our ability to transcend suffering and find meaning in our lives regardless of the life circumstances within which we find ourselves.

From Age-ing to Sage-ing
by Zalman Schacter-Shalomi and Ronald Miller, Warner Books, 1997

A guidebook to the aging process. Presents a profound new vision for growing older. Many exercises suggested in this book are helpful to the process of writing an ethical will.

Kitchen Table Wisdom:Stories That Heal
by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD, Riverhead Books, 1997

This incredibly powerful book will help the reader to understand the power of their personal stories. The on-line reviews provide the best description of this book.

Additional suggestions and visitor recommendations

The Legacy Guide: Capturing the Facts, Memories, and Meaning of Your Life by Carol Franco

The Gift of You: How to Tell Your Loved Ones Who You Really Are by Bill McCord
Choice at the End of Life: Finding Out What Your Parents Want Before it's Too Late, by Linda Norlander, RN, MS and Kerstin McSteen, RN, MS
Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture, by Christina Baldwin
Feasting the Heart, by Reynolds Price
Days of Grace: A Memoir, by Arthur Ashe and Arnold Rampersad
Tell me a Story: The Life-shaping Power of our Stories by Dan Taylor
Legacy: A Step by Step Guide to Writing Your Personal History by Linda Spence
Letters to My Children: A Father Passes on His Values by Daniel Taylor
From Beginning to End by Robert Fulghum
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly : A Memoir of Life in Death
Jean-Dominique Bauby
The Path: Creating Your Personal Mission Statement for Work and Life by Laurie Beth Jones
My Grandfathers Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging by Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D.
The Book Of Jewish Values: A Day-to-day Guide to Ethical Living by Rabbi Joseph Telushkin
Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation by Parker J. Palmer
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey
Spiritual Literacy by Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav
Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley
Create Your Personal Sacred Text by Bobbi L. Parish
Tear Soup by Pat Schweibert, Chuch DeKlyen, illustrated by Taylor Bills
To Our Children's Children: Preserving Family Histories for Generations to Come by Bob Greene and D.G. Fulford
Everything I Know: Basic Life Rules From a Jewish Mother by Sharon Strassfeld
Put Your Heart on Paper: Staying Connected in a Loose-Ends World by Henriette Anne Klauser

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