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.

• 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

• Natural Grace - Victoria

• LifeRites Victoria Spence

• Sacred Hunger Central Coast NSW

• The End of Life Care, WA

• Pia Interlandi - Garments for the Grave

• 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