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| "What happens to all my social networking information when I die?" - An Article in How Stuff Works |
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How do you deal with a Facebook page or other social media or other online presence upon your death or the death of a loved one? This article is a good guide. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Aging With Dignity - organization that provides 5 wishes booklet |
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This is the organization that provides the 5 Wishes plus other information and publications. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Deathing by Anya Foos-Graber |
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"Deathing" richly illustrates the soul's transition, what follows death, how to prepare, and what to expect. The reader learns how traditional rituals were designed to help the soul in transition and how one can help a loved one at that milestone. I consider both books essential background for anyone who works with the terminally ill. Long herself an adept and teacher of out of body movement, Anya Foos-Graber brings the creativity of a novelist and deep, affirming, personal spiritual insight to this most important of topics. (from a review by Tobey Llop) |
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| Dying Beautifully by Dave Karpowicz |
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Starting with the diagnosis and ending after the cemetery service, "Dying Beautifully" acts as a guide, providing tools to help transform the dying process from sorrow to celebration. In a "workbook" format to facilitate working the book. |
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| Erasing Death - NPR Interview with Sam Parnia, MD |
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What happens when we die? Wouldn't we all like to know. We can't bring people back from the dead to tell us — but in some cases, we almost can. Resuscitation medicine is now sometimes capable of reviving people after their heart has stopped beating and their brain has flat-lined; Dr. Sam Parnia, a critical care doctor and director of resuscitation research at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine, studies what these people experience in that period after their heart stops and before they're resuscitated. This includes visions such as bright lights and out-of-body experiences. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Heartwork – How to Get What You Really Really Want by Dale Goldstein |
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This is a book plus CD and is a synthesis of western psychological processes and eastern meditative techniques that allows people to work through even their most difficult psychological issues. These simple and direct methods are excellent for those how have found the standard psychological approach to personal growth too limited. The result is a journey of personal transformation that delivers not only a profoundly fresh perspective on life's challenges but also the ability to access spiritual dimensions of awareness. |
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| Life Before Death - Collection of Films about living well and dying better |
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HOW WILL YOU DIE?
LIFE Before Death is a multi-award winning documentary series that asks the fundamental question underpinning our mortality.
This beautifully filmed journey takes us to 11 countries as we follow the remarkable health professionals battling the sweeping epidemic of pain that threatens to condemn one in every ten of us to an agonizing and shameful death. Through the eyes of patients and their families we discover the inherent humanity that empowers the best of us to care for those beyond cure.
This is an intimate, hopeful and life-affirming story of living well and dying better, advocating for making the most of every moment in our life before death. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Living Our Dying - by Joseph Sharp |
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When he wrote Living Our Dying, Joseph Sharp had been living with the HIV virus for over a decade, living each day with the knowledge that he will, eventually, die. For him, this has become the foundation of an intimate awareness of the beauty and majesty of life, in himself and in all those close to him, whether they've been diagnosed with a fatal illness or not. In this straightforward book, Sharp weaves his personal experiences, quotations from other spiritual and health authors, and suggested meditations into a moving proposal for the "rewriting" of our own lives as a conscious pilgrimage toward the inevitable outcome for ourselves and those we love. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| My Directives |
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Online service that facilitates preparation of advance directives. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Ripening Time - Inside Stories for Aging with Grace - by Sherry Ruth Anderson |
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In Ripening Time: Inside Stories for Aging with Grace, Sherry Ruth Anderson presents a new perspective on aging. In her latest book, the bestselling author of The Feminine Face of God and The Cultural Creatives invites the reader to engage the aging process through the art of inner inquiry. She guides us beyond our culture's mind traps through stories where elders face into the lies, the losses and endings, the tender and bittersweet and ferocious truths of growing old. Giving us an indispensable compass, she shows how growing into old age can be a fruition, the genuine grace and gift of human ripening. |
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| The Bright Light of Death by Annabel Chaplin |
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This book looks at what happens at and just after the time of death. |
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| The End of Life Advisor - by S Dolan & A Vizzard |
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In this simple guide, you’ll find both practical step-by-step advice and compassionate, heartfelt guidance to dramatically improve the last days of life. Written by a mother-daughter team of hospice volunteers with experience in nursing, law, and psychology, The End-of-Life Advisor will show you the remarkable benefits of hospice care.
If you’re a healthcare or legal professional, you’ll discover the important ways you can advise your patients and clients. If you’re caring for a loved one, you’ll learn how you can help make their last days much more comfortable. If you’re planning for yourself, you’ll understand the decisions you need to make now – so you can find greater peace down the road. |
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| The Grace in Dying : How We Are Transformed Spiritually as We Die - by Kathleen Singh |
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Right from the start the author proclaims: "Dying is safe. You are safe. Your loved one is safe. That is the message of all the words here." True to her promise, she walks us through the final stages of death with complete honesty, yet she manages to quell the ultimate fear of dying. Speaking of the "Nearing Death Experience," Singh has discovered a sequence of phases or qualities that signals when a dying person is entering the final stages of spiritual and psychological transformation. She names them as relaxation, withdrawal, radiance, interiority (a time of going inward), silence, sacred, transcendence, knowing, intensity, and perfection--all of which she explains in great detail. This is an astonishingly intelligent and engrossing book about consciously surrendering our bodies and our egos to death. There are 500,000 hospice patients in the U.S. and 5 million hospice workers worldwide. And every one of them would probably find profound comfort in this breakthrough book on dying. --excerpted from a review by Gail Hudson |
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| The Tibetan Book of Living & Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche |
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"A masterful distillation for the West on the priceless wisdom of Tibetan Buddhism that gives us practical instruction and spiritual guiance on how to live in light of the greatest teacher of all - death." |
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| When Someone Dies - The Practical Guide to the Logistics of Death by Scott Taylor Smith with Michael Castleman |
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Scott Taylor Smith, a venture capitalist and lawyer, had plentiful resources, and yet after his mother died, he made a series of agonizing and costly mistakes in squaring away her affairs. He could find countless books that dealt with caring for the dying and the emotional fallout of death, but very few that dealt with the logistics.
In the aftermath of his mother’s death, Smith decided to write the book he wished he’d had. When Someone Dies provides readers with a crucial framework for making good, informed, money-saving decisions in the chaotic thirty days after a loved one dies and beyond. It provides essential, concrete guidance on:
• Making funeral and memorial service arrangements
• Writing an obituary
• Estate planning
• Contacting family and friends
• Handling your loved one’s online footprint
• Navigating probate
• Dealing with finances, including trusts and taxation
• And much, much more
Featuring concise checklists in each chapter, this guide offers answers to practical questions, enabling loved ones to save time and money and focus on healing. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Compassion and Choices |
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Compassion & Choices works with individuals and allied organizations throughout America to:
Make aid in dying an open, legitimate option recognized throughout the medical field and permitted in more states.
Increase patient control and reduce unwanted interventions at the end of life.
Pass additional laws ensuring full information and access to all end-of-life care options.
Normalize accurate, unbiased language throughout the end-of-life choice discussion (“aid in dying” instead of “assisted suicide”).
Establish aid in dying as a prime motivator in voter decision-making.
Support the expansion of the end-of-life choice movement and exert a leadership role in it. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Cycled Life - Alkaline Hydrolysis as an option to cremation |
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Alkaline Hydrolysis is promoted as a greener technology than cremation. This is an article about a Colorado entrepreneur who is looking to promote this technology around the US. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Everplans |
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Who depends on you?
If something happened, what would they do without you? Could they find your will? Turn off your cable? Know how you’d like to be remembered?
Complete Planning Resources
From advance directives to funerals, Everplans has all you need to know about end-of-life planning. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Five Wishes |
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This is a website with a lot of information about the Five Wishes and related information. The Five Wishes is a document with questions to be filled out regarding what you would like your loved ones to know about how you wish to be treated when your death is imminent. It includes the designation of a "Health Care Agent", specific medical decisions, and how you want to be treated. One value of this document is the stress it places on the importance of sharing this information with friends, family, attorneys, and doctors. You can also order a paper version of this document through the following phone and address. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Green Burials |
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This is an organization that provides information and guidance regarding green burials. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Natural Transitions |
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This is a local Colorado organization dedicated to how to do your own funeral and caring for the body after death. This is a useful resource for people outside of Colorado as well. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Neptune Society |
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The Neptune Society is a group that provides cremation and disposal of the ashes. They have locations around the country and links to the offices closest to you. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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| Rest of Your Life Planning |
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This site provides an interactive organizational system that walks you through all of the documentation and information necessary for you to plan your life and healthy aging. Click here to visit the resource page. |
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