Archives: Resources

Advice for Future Corpses (and Those Who Love Them)

Beautifully written and compulsively readable, Advice for Future Corpsesoffers the resources and reassurance that we all need for planning the ends of our lives, and is essential reading for future […]

The VSED Handbook

A combination instructional manual/personal memoir, The VSED Handbook provides detailed instructions for planning and carrying out VSED while offering glimpses into one family’s experiences with the process. Nancy Simmers, co-founder […]

ALS Association

ALS Association provides education, advocacy and information about amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease). Whether you’re newly diagnosed, navigating your journey with the disease, caring for […]

Academy of Aid-in-Dying Medicine

The Academy provides a Patient-to-Doctor Referral System; an Information Update and Discussion Listserv; a series of Video Interviews with leaders in the field discussing pressing issues and concerns; a Patient […]

Caregiver Action Network (CAN)

CAN offers caregiving tips and on-line resources including a support network and resource guides and is the nation’s leading family caregiver organization working to improve the quality of life for […]

Chinese American Coalition for Compassionate Care

Dedicated to building a community in which Chinese Americans are able to face end of life with dignity and respect. CACCC provides compassionate care, community service, education and outreach to […]

Clearing House for Longterm Care

The Administration for Community Living, an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, brings together the efforts and achievements of the Administration on Aging, the Administration on […]

Compassion & Choices

Compassion & Choices is a national advocacy organization that played a pivotal role in helping to get the California End of Life Option Act passed in 2015. Their strategic plan […]

Death With Dignity

The mission of the Death with Dignity National Center is to promote death with dignity laws based on our model legislation, the Oregon Death with Dignity Act, both to provide […]

Final Exit Network

The mission of FEN is to educate qualified individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives, offer a compassionate bedside presence and defend their right to choose. Their vision […]

Hemlock Society of San Diego

The Hemlock Society of San Diego is a 32 year old 501 (c)(3), not-for-profit, volunteer, educational organization. Our mission is to provide education to the San Diego community about all […]

Orphan Wisdom

Stephen Jenkinson is a teacher, author, storyteller, spiritual activist, farmer and founder of the Orphan Wisdom School, a teaching house and learning house for the skills of deep living and […]

The Conversation Project

The Conversation Project is a public engagement initiative with a goal that is both simple and transformative: to have every person’s wishes for end-of-life care expressed and respected.

VSED Resources Northwest

This group aims to share information about VSED so that individuals who might not qualify for medical aid in dying can make informed choices and plans. VSED might not be […]

The Room Next Door

Confronting the issue of dying with dignity, Medical Aid in Dying, and coming to terms with terminal illness and death has become more commonplace in film and television. A new […]

Jack Has a Plan

When Jack Tuller, a man with a terminal brain tumor for 25 years, decides to end his life, his family and friends struggle to accept his decision. Jack’s best friend […]

Last Flight Home

Check out the exclusive first trailer for Ondi Timoner’s “Last Flight Home” (MTV Documentary Films) as mentioned in our blog. This is definitely a “must watch” movie!