The Science of Dying & Meditation

• The Satipattana Sutta: see the section on meditation on the dissolution of the body after death in the nine cemetery contemplations
• The Tibetan Book of the Dead  Compiled and edited by W. Y. Evans-Wentz. revised edition. Oxford University Press, 2000. 
• Sleeping, Dreaming, and Dying: An Exploration of Consciousness with the Dalai Lama Francisco J. Varela, Ed. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 1997.
• Jon Kabat Zinn Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness Using Mindfulness Meditation. Piatkus, 1996
• Rational Buddhism: The scientific and philosophical basis for Buddhist belief and practice
• Beyond McMindfulness The Huffington Post. 8/31/2013 – Ron Purser and David R. Loy
• Being With Dying – The Upaya Contemplative End of Life Training Program Joan Jiko Halifax in Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved Watts, Jonathan S & Tomatsu, Yoshiharu, Eds. Boston: Wisdom Publications, 2012.

Death: Hospice Care and Suicide Prevention

• An Introduction to Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved in the Modern World Jonathan Watts in Buddhist Care for the Dying and Bereaved
• 医療・ 仏教・死の現場～海外の事例が日本に示唆するもの – ジョナサン・ワッツ
• Journey Through Dukkha: The Suicide Prevention Priests of Japan Enter into Structural Violence and Connect to Social Change
• Last Call- A Buddhist Monk Confronts Japan’s Suicide Culture by Larissa MacFarquhar. The New Yorker. June 24, 2013
• From a Disconnected Society to an Interconnected Society Rev. Toshihide Shun’ei Hakamata published in The Eastern Buddhist 44/2: 77–94 (2013)

• Zen in the Mettaverse: How a 400-Year-Old Buddhist Temple is Evolving in Response to Modern Japanese Suffering by Dexter Cohen Bohn July 27, 2023
• Workshop notes on the 3rd International Conference Buddhist Psychotherapy and Suicide Prevention September 27-28, 2023