Resources

Planning for the end of life

• The Conversation Project: Offers tools and tips to have a conversation that matters about your dying wishes or those of a loved one.

• Five Wishes: A simple way to plan for the end of your life. Get started on your advanced directive today!

• Our Care Wishes: Created by Penn Medicine Hospice, this is a FREE resources to help you articulate your dying wishes.

• Cake: A comprehensive resource for all end-of-life planning.

• Mideo Card: Video Advanced Directive

• A Beginner’s Guide to the End: a book by a hospice physician and caregiver offering practical advice about preparing for death.

End of life/Hospice/Active Dying/Other Death Doulas

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization  

  • Tons of resources for the dying and their loved ones 

• Barbara Karnes: Hospice nurse and educator. Wonderful literature

• INELDA: The International End-Of-Life Doula Association

• NEDA:  The National End-of-Life Doula Alliance

• Going with Grace: One of the nation’s foremost death doulas, Alua Arthur

• The Nurse with the Purple Hair: Documentary about a Philadelphia-based hospice nurse committed to changing the culture around death and dying.

• Soul Passages: The work of Dr. Sarah Kerr, death doula, based in Canada

After Death

• Funeral Consumers Alliance of PA

• National Home Funeral Alliance

• West Laurel Hill Cemetery: One of several green burial sites in Philadelphia

Grieving

• Grief.com: a comprehensive resource for all things grief-related.

• Modern Loss

• What’s your Grief

• Grief Recovery After a Substance Passing (GRASP)

• NY Grief Ritual: Offers collective grieving rituals, even over Zoom!

General Death Positive Education

• The Collective for Radical Death Studies: A collective formed by Dr. Kami Fletcher to decolonize death studies in the US and radicalize death practice.

• Death Party Philadelphia: A Philadelphia-based organization providing a space for death positive education.

• Order of the Good Death: THE Death Positive website.

• Ask a Mortician Youtube Channel: Website of Caitlin Doughty of Undertaking LA. Informative and irreverent look at all things death and dying.

• Encyclopedia of Death and Dying

• Death Cafe Philadelphia: Monthly meetup to discuss death and dying (on pause during pandemic)

Other resources

• Wellpoint Acupuncture: in Philadelphia

• Bowl of Saki: A collection of spiritual writings. 

• The End.  A theatrical experience of the end of life, presented by Philadelphia-based company Swim Pony.