Private Link for those in the End-of-Life Planning Workshop

End of Life Resources

Contemplating death, ours and others’, is an empowering and important thing to do.

Welcome!
Please do the following things before the workshop.

Set up a retreat like space near your computer that includes a photo of one or more beloved that has passed on to the spirit world. Also, feel free to include flowers and/or a candle.
Print out the following documents that can be found on further down on this page:
Have this webpage on hand as we will be referring to this page throughout the day together. Please have this pulled up in a browser tab or window.

Resources

Five Wishes

Three Ways to Get them:
1. Easiest: Paper version to PRINT out can be found here.
2. Order a booklet on the Five Wishes Site and have it mailed to you here.
3. Fill it out online: Either on a booklet or in their system. Instructions to access the online version through fivewishes.org
Sample Letters
- Letter to Health Care Agent
- Letter to my Doctor or Health Care Provider

Addendum to Five Wishes

End of Life To-Do Checklist

Go Wish Cards

Health Care (Medical) Power of Attorney – A Legal Addition to Five Wishes

NC Medical/Health Care Power of Attorney

Support for End of Life

Patient Advocate Karen Sanders: rnpatientadvocacync.com
Death Doulas:
Conscious/Alternative Funeral Directors
- Asheville: Meredith Springs (Ask me for her info)
Education at OLLI (Asheville). These folks often have estate planning, advanced directives, and other end of life topics.

Specific Medical Orders

MOST Document or here.
DNR – Do Not Resuscitate
To order both these forms, here.

Medical Release & HIPAA

Simple Medical Release Form
HIPAA Info:
- HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and it requires that healthcare facilities (hospitals, clinics, and private practices…) who have access to Protected Health Information (PHI) take actions to ensure the protection of patient data.
- Your rights under HIPAA
- HIPAA Release Form
- Medical Release Form by State

Death Certificate

Dementia Directive

Dementia Directive Site for Downloading Directive.

Wrap Up Links

Evaluation

Disposition of Body

Declaration Regarding Disposition of Physical Body

Authorization for Cremation

Word Doc

Aquamation (Eco Friendship Alternative to Cremation)

Human Aquamation

Egg Capsule

Capsula Mundi

Green Burial in WNC

In WNC: Carolina Memorial Sanctuary
Other Places: Conservation Burial Alliance or Search Conservation Burial or Green Burial

Composting of Bodies

Urban Death Project at Western Carolina University. Video. NY Times Article. TED Talk.
Recompose website. One Zero article. Legal in Washington State. $5,500.
Infinity Burial Suit.

Donation of Body:

Excellent Resource from WikiHow re: Donating Body.
Body Farms for research of decay and decomposition.
Donation of Body to Science
- List of Places that Accept Bodies
- National Willed Body Programs
- Policies Regarding Body Donation by the American Association of Anatomy

Home Death Care

The Art of Natural Death Care by the Sophia Center in Greensboro, NC. Gorgeous overview video.
Crossings Care: Caring for our own at Death.

Home Funerals & Home Burials

General Info:
Resources for:
- Techni Ice
- Meredith Springs <mlpsprings9@outlook.com>

Financial Resources

NC Durable Power of Attorney
Free Resource for Estate Planning (I have not used this but someone sent it and it looks worthwhile. Let me know if you’ve had an experience with it – either positive or negative.)
NC Lawyer who is willing to work by the hour: www.dykeslawfirm.com.

General Resources

Kimchi Rylander’s Death Journey
- Positive Deathing by Kimchi Facebook Group
- Flickr Photo Album
Regional (Western NC) Resources:
- Asheville Alternative Death Care Facebook Group
- Center for End of Life Transitions, Asheville, NC for workshops and home funeral guidance.
- Cooperate WNC
- Death Seeding Life
Books:
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, Book by Atul Gawande
- Words at the Threshold book by Lisa Smartt and Dr. Raymond Moody’s Life After Life website.
- The Art of Dying Well by Katy Butler
- Our Last Best Act by Mallory McDuff
Videos/Talks:
- The Bitter End: On Medical Doctors & their End of Life Choices by Radio Lab.
- David Kessler interview by Brene Brown on Grief & Finding Meaning.
- Four Things that Matter Most with Dr. Ira Byock Author of Dying Well (Forgive me, I forgive you, thank you, I love you).
- Stephen Jenkinson
- Martin Prechtel on Grief and Praise, Part 1, Part 2, Part 3
- GriefCast Podcast from the UK
- Caitlin Doughty – Ask A Mortician
Websites:
Articles:
- What we really think about on our deathbeds by Lee Warren
- Whoever Dies with the Least Stuff Wins by Lee Warren
- Lee Warren’s Article on Community Grief
- Sitting Up With the Dead: Lost Appalachian Burial Customs
- The Movement to Bring Death Closer – NY Times
- Divesting Our End of Life from Fossil Fuels – Earth Island Journal
- Brain Pickings Review of A Year with Rilke by Joanna Macy
- Brain Pickings Review of Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations on Mortality
Education:
- https://finalpassages.org/

Resources for Final Exit Choices

Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking
Compassion & Choices (formerly Hemlock Society)
Dignified Death Option

Workshop Description, Details, Dates, & Registration

End of Life Paperwork & Planning Workshop with Lee Warren