Activities and Events | Advance Care Planning | Assisted Dying | Books | Digital Legacy | Funerals | Grief and Loss | Movies | Pets | Podcasts | Suicide Prevention | TV Shows | Training Programs


Activities and Events

Death Cafe
At a Death Cafe, people gather to eat, drink, and discuss death with no other agenda, objectives or themes. The objective is to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives.

Death Over Dinner
Death Over Dinner helps families and friends address the basic human fact that we are all, at some point, going to die. The dinner table is the most forgiving place for difficult conversation as the ritual of breaking bread creates warmth and connection and puts us in touch with our humanity.

The Death Deck
The Death Deck is a party game that lets you tap into stories and ideas you’ve never heard your friends and family share before about life and death!

The Dinner Party
The Dinner Party is a worldwide community of 20- and 30-somethings who have each experienced the loss of a parent, partner, child, sibling, or close friend. Peer hosts connect with would-be Dinner Partiers nearby who share a similar age and loss experience.

Endwell
End Well hosts an end of life conference committed to generating human-centered, interdisciplinary innovation for the end of life experience.

Morbid Curiosity
Morbid Curiosity combines story telling, trivia, and delightfully dark fun with friends and family. This deck of 162 cards will ignite and challenge your curiosity about the greatest mystery of all—death.

Reimagine End of Life
Reimagine End of Life is a community-driven exploration of death and celebration of life through creativity and conversation.


Advance Care Planning

Advance Directive for Dementia
A simple way to document the medical care you would want if you had dementia. An advance directive for dementia as featured in the New York Times.

National Healthcare Decisions Day
National Healthcare Decisions Day exists to inspire, educate and empower the public and providers about the importance of advance care planning.

National Institute on Aging
Advance Care Planning: Healthcare Directives

U.S. Advance Care Plan Registry
The U.S. Living Will Registry® has expanded its services and is now also known as the U.S. Advance Care Plan Registry℠ (USACPR).


Assisted Dying

Compassion & Choices

Death with Dignity


Books

Selections from Talk Death:
Best Books about Death and Dying
More Books about Death and Dying
Even More Books about Death and Dying

Selections from End of Life University:
Book Lists: A Year of Reading Dangerously

Selections from NYC Death Café:
Comforting Books We Recommend


Digital Legacy

8 digital legacy apps that can make you immortal
By Death Goes Digital

How to prepare your digital legacy
By The Mac Security Blog (Intego)


Funerals

Funeral Consumers Alliance

National Home Funeral Alliance

Remembering A Life


Grief and Loss

Grief: Coping with reminders after loss
By Mayo Clinic

Grief, Loss, and Bereavement
By GoodTherapy

Modern Loss
Candid conversations about grief. Beginners welcome.


Movies

Selections from Talk Death:
Best movies about death
Even more movies about death and dying

Selections from The Order of the Good Death:
Movies and documentaries


Pets

Pet Care: End of life care
By ASPCA

End of life care for pets FAQ
By WebMD


Podcasts

Selections from How to Write an Online Obituary:
Best podcasts on death, dying, aging, and grief

Selections from Talk Death:
Best podcasts about death and dying
More podcasts about death and dying


Suicide Prevention

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

National Institute of Mental Health

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline


TV Shows

Selections from The Whisp:
17 TV shows about the afterlife that’ll have you pondering life & death

Selections from Modern Loss:
Small-screen grief: 10 TV shows that got it right


Training Programs

Many of our group members have completed one or more of the following training programs:

Doulagivers
Certified End of Life Doula Training, Suzanne O’Brien

Final Passages
Institute of Conscious Dying, Home Funeral, & Green Burial Education, Jerrigrace Lyons

Integrative Thanantology Certificate Program
Art of Dying Institute, New York Open Center
This certification program is intended to reframe our current conception of dying and reclaim the wisdom and practices of the past. It provides health care practitioners and those with a profound interest in the energetics of living and dying with a unique set of skills to deepen their understanding of the spiritual, psychological, social, and physical aspects of the dying experience.

New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care
The founding vision focuses on caring for the most vulnerable among us and designates its mission as: transforming the culture of care through contemplative practice by meeting illness, aging, and death with compassion and wisdom.

One Spirit Learning Alliance
Offers experiential interfaith and inter-spiritual education and professional training to support personal transformation and prepare spiritual leaders.

Quality of Life Care
End of Life Doula Training & Certification, Deanna Cochran

Sacred Crossings
Funeral Home and Institute for Conscious Dying, Olivia Bareham

Teaching Transitions
Doing Death Differently, Patty Burgess

The Doula Program to Accompany and Comfort
Specializes in training, carefully matching, and supervising Doula Volunteers.

The International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA)
End of Life Doula Training, Henry Fersco Weiss