Websites, Books, Videos, Articles and Music

End of Life Planning

A short and excellent video by the BC government on end-of-life planning

Nidus Personal Planning Resource Centre and Registry

BC info on Representation Agreements and Enduring Power of Attorney

BC info on expected/planned home deaths

Hospice and Palliative Care

BC Palliative Care Benefits (Plan B)

BC Hospice and Palliative Care Association

Caregivers

Canada info on Employment Insurance (E.I.) for caregivers

Medical Assistance In Dying (MAID)

Canada info on MAID

Dying with Dignity Canada

BC Cancer info on MAID

Bridge C-14 (peer to peer support for families in MAID)

End of Life Doula

End of Life Doula Association of Canada

Psilocybin Therapy at End-of-Life

TheraPsil

Organ and Body Donation

Transplant BC

UBC Body Program

Burial and Cremation Alternatives

Green Burial Society of Canada

Recompose

Aquamotion (Alkaline Hydrolysis)

Recommended Books on Death, Dying and Grief

The Denial of Death (Ernest Becker, 1973)

Who Dies? (Stephen Levine, 1982)

Being Mortal (Atul Gawande, 2014)

The Conversation (Angelo E. Volandes, 2015)

How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies (Therese A. Rando, 1998)

The Mourning Handbook (Helen Fitzgerald, 1994)

Finding Peace at the End of Life (Henry Fersko-Weiss, 2017)

The Needs of the Dying (David Kessler, 2007)

Love Your Life to Death (Yvonne Heath, 2015)

Final Gifts (Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley, 1992)

My Favorite Movies on Death, Dying and Grief

The Fountain

Up

Big Fish

What Dreams May Come

Hugo

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus

My Eclectic Music Playlist on Death and Life

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5kTkNv4JXm4TRyKBudatsr?si=c01c08c450df4359