Resources
Websites:
End-of-Life Planning & Advance Directives
🔹 The Conversation Project
(Resources to help people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care)
🔹 Five Wishes
(A user-friendly living will that includes personal, emotional, and spiritual wishes)
🔹 National POLST (Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment)
(Information on POLST/MOLST forms for medical decision-making)
🔹 CaringInfo (by the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization)
(Resources on advance directives and palliative care options)
🔹 Death Over Diner
(Resource- Plan your diner to start the conversation!)
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Grief & Bereavement Support
🔹 What’s Your Grief?
(Grief education, community support, and resources)
🔹 Modern Loss
(A contemporary resource for navigating grief and resilience)
🔹 Grief.com
(Resources from David Kessler on grief, loss, and healing)
🔹 The Dougy Center – The National Grief Center for Children & Families
(Support and education for grieving children, teens, and families)
(Matching volunteer handwork finishers with textile projects people have left undone due to death or disability.
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End-of-Life Doula & Hospice Resources
🔹 National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA)
(A network supporting end-of-life doulas and best practices)
🔹 Doulagivers Institute
(Training and education for end-of-life doulas)
🔹 National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
(Resources for hospice, palliative care, and caregiving)
🔹 Death Café
(A global movement encouraging open conversations about death)
🔹Barbara Karnes
(Hospice pioneer/RN- end of life education materials)
Book List
Legacy & Ethical Wills
📖 Ethical Wills: Putting Your Values on Paper – Dr. Barry K. Baines
📖 The Wealth of Your Life: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will – Susan Turnbull
📖 A Life’s Legacy: A Guide to Collecting and Sharing the Stories, Values, and Wisdom of Your Life – Marc Freedman
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End-of-Life Planning & Conversations
📖 Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande
📖 The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of Life – Katy Butler
📖 When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
📖 The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully – Frank Ostaseski
📖 Talking About Death Won’t Kill You: The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations – Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller
📖 Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying – Maggie Callanan & Patricia Kelley
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Grief & Meaning-Making
📖 It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand – Megan Devine
📖 Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief – Dr. Joanne Cacciatore
📖 The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief – Francis Weller
📖 No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need to Hear) – Kate Bowler
📖 Hello Grief, Hello Love: A Memoir of Resilience and Connection – Amy Davis
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Ritual, Presence & Spiritual Perspectives on Death
📖 Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul – Stephen Jenkinson
📖 Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life – Megory Anderson
📖 The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have – Mark Nepo
📖 Anam ÄŠara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom – John O’Donohue