Resources to help you more fully
'live your dying'.

(Mits Aoki on Resources for living: Quicktime video 81K )

Writings

• Writings of Mits Aoki These writings cover a wide variety of topics and tend to present the philosophy and perspective behind Mit's exploration of the dying process as an essential part of living.
• Articles about Mits Aoki's work. These articles from the past 20 years give different slants on the work that Mits has done with clients. From these you can glean practical applications to your situation.

Books: recommended by Mits from his library. This is a great beginning bibliography to explore the vast and rich world of death and dying.

The Healing Journey:

Representing the process of Mits Aoki's work as a journey with 4 phases. This may help you conceptualize where in the journey you or your cared for one are and where you might need to go. Take the journey now.

Personal Resource Assistance
(for the Hawai'i Community)

• Kenneth Zeri, Director Hospice Hawaii 860 Iwilei Rd. Honolulu 96817 (see web links for more information)
• Hob Osterlund- Clinical Coordinator Pain Management Center, Queens Hospital ph 808-547-4726
• Bruce Nakamura, Reverend; Honwanji Mission, Honolulu 808-845-3422
• EldercareHawaii (see web links for more information)

Writings of Mits Aoki

These articles will give you an essential insight into the profound vision of death that Mits Aoki has developed over a lifetime of devotion understanding death and its relationship to life.

• Greetings and Aloha: A Personal Message
• On Spirituality in Death and Dying
• Rev. Misuo Aoki: on Religion and Death
• The Meaning of Death
• My View about Death and its Relationship to Life
• Death as Healing Process

These exercises will give you an insight into the practical type of work that Mits did with his students and clients. Put them into practice yourself.

• Exercise 1:Your Relationship with Death
• Exercise 2: Giving It All Away
• Exercise 3: Saying Your Last Goodbye:

Articles about Mits Aoki and his work

These articles will give you a more personal view of Mits as well as practical, applicable techniques and perspectives for your own life and for the lives of those you may be caring for in the transition called dying.

• Hints on "caring' for dying patient Maui News, 1978
• Living and Dying with Cancer.
• Helping others live with Dying
• Dying people were my teachers 1982
• Emergence of Global Spirituality. 1984
• The Best Way to Die
• Transcending Death: Profile of the Rev. Mitsuo Aoki