Practical resources to document your wishes
These resources promote the importance of documenting your wishes once you’ve had conversations.
A summary checklist - Not sure where to start with your end of life planning? We’ve developed a checklist to help get you started. It is a list of the main documents you need to complete and suggestions of other things you can prepare.
Emotional Will - An Emotional Will is all about your legacy, the things you want to convey in terms of your thoughts, values and memories. It is not a legal document and you are free to be creative with it!
Dying to talk - download the kit from Palliative Care Australia.
Planning Ahead - NSW Government website with tools on how to play for end of life.
COTA NSW - Council of the Ageing NSW - Fact Sheets
COTA VIC - Council of the Ageing VIC - end of life issues
State Trustees Victoria - Helping Victorians plan around end of life issues
Advance Care Planning - Australia wide tools
Advance Care Planning NZ - New Zealand tools for Advance care Planning
My EndNotes - online planning tools
Advanced Care Planning at Groote Eylandt - Informative video of the people of Groote Eylandt, making plans about final days with health staff, family and friends.
Planning for end of life tools.
Death Cafe - Use the Death Cafe website to find your local Death Cafe in Australia and around the world.
The Bottom Drawer Book - Join the facebook community and buy the book!
Ultimate Guide to Digital Death and how to handle it
BIO Jars - Curate your legacy
The Last Wishes Booklet - a unique journal to curate your end of life wishes.
Ultimate Guide to Funerals e-books from Celebrants Training College
Death doulas & end of life workers.
Natural Grace - Victoria
Spiritual Palliative Care - based in QLD
The Departure - studio, contemporary art and advocacy space in Castlemaine, Victoria.
Gentle Death Education and Planning - End of Life Consultant, Doula, and planning services and comprehensive, inclusive online end of life work training
Preparing the Way - organisation that provides education, support and continuity of care for End of Life Doulas + Directory
Australian Doula College - organisation that provides education, support and continuity of care for End of Life Doulas + Directory
Celebrants Training College - Funeral celebrations, death doulas and end of life workers
Funeral celebrants.
Natural Grace - Victoria
Tender Funerals - Port Kembla
NDAN - Natural Death Advocacy Network - Australia
National Home Funeral Alliance (NHFA) - USA based
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