DEATH POSITIVE DC

BOOKS: 

• Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 

• Smoke Gets in Your Eyes by Caitlin Doughty 

• From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death

• Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax 

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

• The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully

• Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go by Amy Wright Glenn 

• Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children

• The Dead Bird (2016 edition)

• Duck, Death and the Tulip

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COVID19

• COVID19 addendum (Compassion and Choices) 

• COVID19 Understanding Your Options (Compassion and Choices) 

• Conversation Project COVID19 Guide

• Prepare for Your Care COVID19 info 

• National POLST COVID19 resources

• Respecting Choices COVID19 resources

• CPR decisions (Respecting Choices) 

• Help with Breathing Decision Aid (Respecting Choices) 

• COVID funeral reimbursement 

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ADVANCE CARE PLANNING

(advance directive, living will, healthcare proxy/agent)

• The Five Wishes, legal in DC and 42 states

• Compassion & Choices Advance Planning Guide and Toolkit

• Compassion and Choices How to Talk to Your Doctor About Your End of Life Options

• Compassion and Choices Dementia Provision

• The Conversation Project (how to talk about your EOL wishes)

• CAKE trusted decision maker form 

• Everplans, a plethora of info on EOL planning issues 

• Prepare for Your Care

• National POLST

• Respecting Choices

• 1A segment: Where to Start with End of Life Decisions

 

 

PODCASTS:

• Death by Design

• Death in the Afternoon

• The Death Diaries

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DEATH CAFES & OTHER EVENTS:

• See my events page for death cafes and other events that I'm hosting or participating in 

• See the announcements section of the Facebook group. I keep a running list (organized by month) of my events AND events being hosted or organized by other people/organizations. 

• DeathCafe.com

• How death cafes are de-stigmatizing death

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END-OF-LIFE DOCUMENTS: 

• Five Wishes (website)

• GYST (check list for EOL documents)

• Why You Need to Make a 'When I Die' File—Before It's Too Late

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END-OF-LIFE DOULAS: 

• International End of Life Doula Association

• So, You Want to Hire a Death Doula by Amy Wright Glenn 

• Institute for the Study of Birth, Breath, and Death

• Would You Hire a Death Doula?

• The Power of a Death Doula

• Personal Grief Directed Her Toward Becoming an End-of-Life Doula

• How to find a death doula

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OTHER:

• Dr. BJ Miller's TED Talk on the End of Life

• What Should Medicine Do When It Can't Save Your Life

• The "WeCroak" app (look on iTunes for it)

• End-of-Life University

• Art of Dying Well Launches New Guide to Deathbed Etiquette

• How to Think About Your Own Mortality (Without Getting Depressed)

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MEDICAL AID-IN-DYING:

• Death With Dignity 

• When My Time Comes: Conversations About Whether Those Who Are Dying Should Have the Right to Determine When Life Should End, a book by Diane Rehm

• Compassion & Choices

• My terminally ill mother wanted to end her own life. What would it take to fulfill her last wish?

• At 94, she was ready to die by fasting. Her daughter filmed it.

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PREGNANCY & INFANT LOSS:

• ​Support Group Guide & Resource List for DC-area

• Pregnancy Loss and Infant Death Peer Support Group of Washington, D.C.

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HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE:

• When is the Right Time for Hospice Care?

• Palliative Care Is Still Medical Treatment

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LEGACY:

• How to Leave a Legacy When You Don't Have Children 

 

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