“Dying well must become an obligation that living people and dying people owe to each other and to those to come.”
— Stephen Jenkinson
Advance Directives
Advance Directives - https://advancedirectives.com/
California Advance Directive - https://advancedirectives.com/california/
Five Wishes - https://www.fivewishes.org/
Alternative Funeral Home
Some Resources
Sustainable Body Disposition
Water Cremation https://www.whiteroseaquacremation.com/
Green Burial https://www.greenburialcouncil.org/
Green Burial Cemeteries in California https://fcasocal.org/green-burial-cemeteries-in-california.html
Green Funeral Products https://www.passagesinternational.com/
Home Funerals
A Few of Our Favorite Books & Authors
A Year to Live: How to Live This Year As If It Were Your Last by Stephen Levine
Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief by David Kessler
That Good Night: Life and Medicine in the Eleventh Hour by Sunita Puri
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaskeski
The Handbook for Companioning the Mourner by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller
Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying by Ram Dass & Mirabai Bush
Some Videos Worth Watching
A Will for the Woods http://www.awillforthewoods.com/screenings#see-the-film
Being Mortal https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/being-mortal/
Dying Wish: Watch Here.
Salt in My Soul https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/salt-in-my-soul
The Farewell : Watch here.
When My Time Comes https://www.pbs.org/show/when-my-time-comes/