Things you may find useful if you are thinking about death
LAST UPDATED: March 17, 2025
Right now this is a link dump. When everything I have is listed, links should be sorted into better catgories.
Directories of information to explore
CINDEA (canada):
Columbus Community Death Care (USA):
- Learning Library and Resources:
Library includes guides on home funeral for humans and non-humans, bodies after death and how to care for them.
Resources include links to services/websites about caregiving, end-of-life care, home funeral and natural burial, end-of-life-planning, death acceptance, grief support, podcasts, books, picture books, and films
Dying With Dignity (canada):
- Education and Resources:
Information about a wide range of end-of-life topics and MAID. Booklets, webinars, MAID (Medical Assistance In Dying) forms, directories of resources for provinces,
Order of the Good Death (USA):
- Resources:
includes information on death anxiety, what happens to bodies after death, pandemic, preparing for death, eco-friendly options, careers, and media recommendations (books, movies & documentaries, podcasts, video games)
- End of Life Planning:
includes Myths & Facts, Death with Dignity, Advanced Directives, Dying Fat, Death Certificates, Body & Organ Donation, Digital Afterlife, Infant & Child Death, Fetal Burial Laws, Pet Death, and Grief Resources
Communities
Reddit (viewable through Redlib)
Advance Care Planning
CINDEA - Advance Care Planning: includes summaries of documents you may need (legal and medical), legal terms, types of representation, what to consider if a dying person has dementia, and a table of options for services that might be relevant/helpful for your situation
Go Wish Game: online tool that allows you to visually lay out and rank how much different concepts/things matter to you. For clarifying what you value and prioritize most.
Green Death Guide and Ways to Prepare (PDF from Green Death Doula): List of things to think about and do right now.
Death anxiety
Death Anxiety Resources on r/DeathPositive wiki: RedLib | Reddit
Deciding how to die
Final Exit Network - 15 Conversation Starters: resources for starting conversations about specific circumstances and methods for self-deliverance, when death is expected and immanent.
Deciding what you want done to your body
CINDEA - home funerals and body care: includes general information about post-death care & funerals, what is legal and what is not, at-home death funerals, post-death care and arrangements, shroud sewing patterns, options for burial and cremations
Deathcare Decision Game [itch.io]: interactive decision tree for how to handle your body after death, based on your desires
Making Informed Choices When Planning a Funeral: a Guide for Queer People (PDF) - UK-based but has general information that is applicable anywhere
Return Home - Resource Center: For information about Human Composting, alkaline hydrolysis, funeral services, burial, cremation, and green burials (methods of disposition)
Medical information
Pallipedia: Palliative care dictionary
Supporting others - dementia
McGill University Dementia Education Program: free online course from McGill University
Egale - 2SLGBTQI Dementia Networks of Support: with respect to unpaid carers. Includes free learning modules
Supporting others - kids
Preparing children for the medically assisted death of a loved one: recommendations and considerations for involving and talking to children when one of their loved ones is going to die.
dougy.org: activity ideas for helping kids process grief, divided by age group and what kind of person died (caregiver, sibling, peer...)
kidsgrief.ca: resources for helping kids with grief, for family and educators
Vigiling
Sitting Vigil at a Death Bed: A Checklist
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