End of Life

Practical steps to do before, during and after. Including how to do end of life planning, writing a will and arranging funerals.

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Death, In General

Dealing with Death

🌍🔗 https://wiki.techinc.nl/Hackers_tribes#Accepting_Death

Many links & resources

Ars Moriendi

🌍🔗https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/inquire/Discover/Search/#/?p=c+6,t+ars%20moriendi,rsrs+0,rsps+100,fa+,so+ox%3Asort%5Easc,scids+,pid+,vi+

Digitised version of the original book

Making Decisions About End of Life Care

📖 Being mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end

Gawande, A. (2017). Being mortal: Medicine and what matters in the end. Toronto, Ontario: Anchor Canada. Book examines different ways for preparing for end of life care and offers advice

Stewart Brand Is 81—and He Doesn’t Want to Go on a Ventilator

🌍🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/stewart-brand-ventilator-end-of-life-care/

Discussion of end of life care decisions

Stewart Brand's Twitter Thread Featuring His Advance Medical Directive

🌍🔗https://twitter.com/stewartbrand/status/1249054846033883142

Example of an advance care directive refusing ventilation or ICU admission in case of COVID-19 infection

Art of living and dying well

🌍🔗https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jun/04/lets-talk-about-the-art-of-living-and-dying-well

Oncologist Ranjana Srivastava discusses her experiences with people dying of terminal illnesses

End of Life Issues: A Jewish Perspective

🌍🔗https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/end-of-life-issues-a-jewish-perspective/

An introduction to Jewish attitudes toward life support, ceasing medical care, living wills, and caring for patients in their final days

Facing Death without Religion

🌍🔗https://bulletin.hds.harvard.edu/facing-death-without-religion/

Study of elderly agnostic and atheistic people looking at how they prepare for death

For Caregivers

Helix Centre: End-of-life Care Toolkits for Carers at Home

🌍🔗https://helixcentre.com/project-end-of-life-toolkit

Toolkits for caring for people who are dying

Caring for a Muslim patient

🌍🔗http://hospicefoundation.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Caring-for-A-Muslim-Patient.pdf

Advice for hospice and hospital staff caring for Muslim patients

The Culture Connection: Muslim End-of-Life Practices

🌍🔗https://www.crossroadshospice.com/hospice-palliative-care-blog/2015/october/13/the-culture-connection-muslim-end-of-life-practices/

Advice for chaplains on end of life practices for Muslims

The Culture Connection: Judaism at End-of-Life

🌍🔗https://www.crossroadshospice.com/hospice-palliative-care-blog/2015/august/10/the-culture-connection-judaism-at-end-of-life/

Advice for chaplains caring for Jewish people at the end of life

The Sacrament of the Anointing of the Sick

🌍🔗https://youtu.be/P9UMbhvcLdI

A video for Catholics reminding you how the Church can help in times of sickness and death

Thinking about Death

How to use the thought of death - School of Life

📺🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yg6i7nppkAw

The thought of death doesn't have to be pessimistic or unnecessarily morbid: it might be what we need to return focus and appreciation to life

Reasons to Remember Death - School of Life

📺🔗https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A7VrTxuZIE

It isn’t macabre or nihilistic to think of death. It’s the start of a proper, braver engagement with the possibilities of life

How to face death personally

🌍🔗https://www.artofdyingwell.org/facing-death-personally/

Living with the knowledge that death is close at hand can take a huge emotional toll - site offers advice on end of life care from multiple points of view

Knowing we must die, How Then Shall We Live?

🌍🔗https://caspertk.wordpress.com/2015/04/29/knowing-we-must-die-how-then-shall-we-live-2/

Minister for non-religious people discusses lessons learned from ministering to the dying

Talking about Death

Before Death

Talking About Death

🌍🔗https://www.artofdyingwell.org/talking-about-death/

Why is it so hard to talk about death? How to discuss death

The School of Death

🌍🔗https://www.theschoolofdeath.com/library/

A collection of thought provoking literature

Coronavirus: Doctors urge 'difficult conversations' about death

🌍🔗https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-52070212

People should talk to loved ones about their wishes if they were to become critically ill with coronaviru

Talking to your family about death and medical directives, amid Coronavirus

🌍🔗https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/31/health/family-death-planning-coronavirus-khn-wellness/index.html

How do you want to be cared for in the hospital

Tough conversations about end of life care can no longer be avoided as Coronavirus spreads

🌍🔗https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/16/tough-conversations-end-of-life-care-can-no-longer-be-avoided-as-coronavirus-spreads-view

The title says it all

A Difficult Conversation About COVID-19 – Care Planning

🌍🔗https://reimagininghealth.com/a-difficult-conversation-about-covid-19-care-planning/

Following a Death

How to tell a child that someone has died from the Coronavirus

🌍🔗https://www.winstonswish.org/telling-a-child-someone-died-from-coronavirus/

Advice for talking to children about death

The language of sorrow

🌍🔗https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/

Terms for different types of sorrows

Guardian Angel

🇬🇧🔗https://guardianangel.network/

Fee-based consulting bereavement and will creation. Obviously this is not the only group offering these services

Prepare for Death

Prepare for End of Life

🌍🔗https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GwdJIE1ketgMtGE04N-WQO_nQQmTKtPgpOTv9cFdZ6w/edit

Google doc with list of things you need to do to prepare for death

Life and death planning checklist

🌍🔗https://getyourshittogether.org/checklist/

Life and death planning checklist (a little dark...but maybe useful for some)

Dying Matters

🇬🇧🔗https://www.dyingmatters.org/

Raising awareness of dying, death and bereavement

One day, you are going to die, Here is how to prepare for it

🇺🇸🔗https://lifehacker.com/one-day-youre-going-to-die-heres-how-to-prepare-for-i-5992722

Guides you through the things to do to prepare for end of life

Death preparation checklist

🌍🔗 https://www.oktodie.com/preparation-checklists

Various checklists for preparing for end of life

Organising Your Data

Red Folder

🌍🔗https://www.burgessct.com/2020/04/02/red-folder/#.XokBylNKjOQ

Former CIA agent shares his method for ensuring that his partner would have access to all of his important documents in case of emergency or unforeseen death

EverPlan

🌍🔗https://www.everplans.com/important-documents

Important documents and how to organise them

Digital Legacy

Who controls your digital legacy when you die?

🇺🇸🔗https://www.everplans.com/articles/who-controls-your-digital-legacy-when-you-die

Access to digital accounts does not automatically pass on to anyone after you die and cannot be part of your will

11 Etiquette Rules You Need for Dealing with Death on Social Media

🌍🔗https://www.rd.com/advice/relationships/death-on-social-media/

Etiquette rules for dealing with death on social media

Life Insurance

🇺🇸🔗https://www.everplans.com/life-insurance

Collection of guides on life insurance

Last Will and Testament

Distribution of property & possessions after death

National Records of Scotland

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🔗https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/research/guides/wills-and-testaments

Wills guidance

Making a will

🇬🇧🔗https://www.gov.uk/make-will

Includes guides on writing your will, ensuring legality and updating.

My Living Will

🇬🇧🔗 www.mylivingwill.org.uk

This UK-focused website provides advice on advance planning of care towards the end of life and includes new options for COVID-19

Beyond

🇬🇧🔗https://beyond.life/help-centre/admin-legal/someone-dies-without-will/

What happens if someone dies without a will?

Farewill

🇬🇧🔗https://farewill.com/nhs

Farewill are offering a free will to all NHS workers

FreeWills

🇬🇧🔗https://freewills.co.uk

Their mission is to provide an easy way for every British adult to make a personalised will, for free

Cheap and Free Wills

🇬🇧🔗https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/family/free-cheap-wills/

Cheap and free wills

Beyond

🇬🇧🔗https://beyond.life/make-will-online

Beyond online wills

Legalzoom

🇬🇧🔗https://www.legalzoom.com/uk/wills/

Protect your family with a will

MyWishes

🇬🇧🔗https://www.mywishes.co.uk/how-it-works

Free end of life planning software that provides advance care planning (advance directives / anticipatory care planning), funeral planning, digital legacy and assets planning

Total Legal

🇺🇸🔗https://www.totallegal.com/last-will-and-testament

Last will and Testament

Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA)

Lasting Power of Attorney Service Status

🇬🇧🔗https://www.lastingpowerofattorney.service.gov.uk/home

Guides you through the process of creating lasting power of attorney

Total Legal

🇺🇸🔗https://www.totallegal.com/power-of-attorney

Power of Attorney

Legalzoom

🇬🇧🔗https://cms.legalzoom.co.uk/uk/power-of-attorney/

If you ever lose your capacity to make decisions, you’ll need someone you trust to do it for you. Make it easier for that person by choosing them now, with a Lasting Power of Attorney (LPA), our team of highly skilled legal professionals can help you do this

Living Will/Advance Directive/Advance Decision to Refuse Treatment

MyWishes

🇬🇧🔗https://www.mywishes.co.uk/how-it-works

Free end of life planning software that provides advance care planning (advance directives / anticipatory care planning), funeral planning, digital legacy and assets planning

Total Legal

🇺🇸🔗https://www.totallegal.com/living-will

A Living Will (also known as a Health Care Directive) specifies whether you would like to be kept on artificial life support if you become permanently unconscious or are otherwise dying and unable to speak for yourself.

Advance Care Planning

MyWishes

🇬🇧🔗https://www.mywishes.co.uk/how-it-works

Free end of life planning software that provides advance care planning (advance directives / anticipatory care planning), funeral planning, digital legacy and assets planning

Respecting Choices

🇺🇸🔗https://respectingchoices.org/

An internationally recognized, evidence-based model of advance care planning (ACP) that creates a healthcare culture of person-centered care—care that honors an individual’s goals and values for current and future healthcare.