Death Dictionary: Over 5,000 Clinical, Legal, Literary and Vernacular Terms (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1994) Christine Quigley. ISBN 0899508693
Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (New York, Macmillan Reference, 2003) Robert Kastenbaum (editor). ISBN 002865689X (2 vols.)
Encyclopedia of Death and Dying (London, Routledge, 2001) Glennys Howarth and Oliver Leaman (editors). ISBN 0415188253
Encyclopedia of Death (Phoenix, Ariz: Oryx Press, 1989) Robert Kastenbaum and Beatrice Kastenbaum (editors). ISBN 089774263X
Death and the Afterlife: A Cultural Encyclopedia (Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2000) Richard P. Taylor. ISBN 0874369398
Encyclopedia of Afterlife Beliefs and Phenomena (Detroit, Gale research, 1994) James R. Lewis ISBN 0810348799
Handbook of Death and Dying (Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications, 2003) Clifton D. Bryant. ISBN 0761925147 (2 vols.)
Encyclopedia of Bioethics (New York, Macmillan Reference USA, 2003) Stephen Garrard Post (editor). ISBN 0028657748 (5 vols.)
