Discover EOLCCA’s curated resources for end-of-life planning, including printable forms and documents, links to national and statewide organizations, insightful reading, and multimedia content to inform and support your choices. To see an archive of EOLCCA blog posts click here.
Explore articles offering insights into end-of-life planning, legal options, and personal stories to guide and inform your decisions.
Stories, insights, and inspiration – explore the EOLCCA blog for thoughtful perspectives, personal experiences, and meaningful conversations around end-of-life journeys.
Find support and understanding in this book collection, highlighting many excellent resources on death, dying, bereavement and grief.
Find MAiD-related forms, MAiD data reports, and documents to inform advance health care planning.
Explore our curated list of movies that provoke thought and discussion about life, death, and the choices we face at the end of life.
Find links to national and issue-specific groups that provide information, advocacy, or services related to end-of-life planning and decision-making.
Executive Director Mark Greenberg and San Diego volunteer Grant Affleck were honored to discuss End of Life Choices California, your end-of-life options, and Medical Aid in Dying on Drew Schlosberg’s Spotlight on the Community podcast. Find it wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Executive Director Mark Greenberg and Volunteer Grant Affleck were pleased to be guests on a 2-part podcast with Journey Home Radio (also broadcast on KPRZ) earlier this month. They discussed end-of-life options, including Medical Aid in Dying, resources available at EOLCCA and shared some personal stories.
Hosted by Thesa Miele, Iris Wise, Cody Spradlin and Yvette Lynch in partnership with Singing Hills Memorial Park, Singing Hills Memorial Park’s podcast is a broadcast dedicated to guiding families through one of life’s most sacred transitions.
Listen to this podcast with EOLCCA Advisory Council member and Client Volunteer, Sue Gess with the Southern Caregiver Resource Center. Sue does a great job destigmatizing conversations around end of life planning and death and dying.
SCRC provides free caregiver support services for families caring for frail older adults and adults living with Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders in San Diego County. SCRC offers a wide variety of support services that include education, care planning, case management, counseling, respite care and support groups.
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 corpses everywhere. Read our Book Review.
Adrian Byram is the co-author of a recent study comparing the rates of medically assisted deaths in Canada and California. While both jurisdictions legalized MAID in the same year and have similar population sizes, Canada has far more assisted deaths. Why is this? In this interview, we go through the surprising results of the study. We also discuss Adrian’s work on the ethics of advance directives, how technology might help with substitute decision making, and next steps for assisted dying in California.
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 a person with ALS, or researching the cure, there are resources to support you.
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 entry arrived in theaters last November and is now streaming on Netflix.
The film is beautiful to watch and Moore and Swinton do an excellent job. The film is certainly a plea to legalize Medical Aid in Dying in New York (where the film takes place) and the other states where it isn’t legal. It resonates with the message that all adults who are terminally ill, and have less than six months to live, deserve to choose the kind of death they want, when they want it.
Stewart Florsheim, an EOLCCA Board member, wants to spread awareness about medical aid in dying and all end-of-life options available to Californians. This is his perspective.
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 and current Coordinator of VSED Resources Northwest, wrote the foreword for the book, which she describes as “a worthy guidebook for contemplating your own end-of-life choices.”
One in five states allow terminally ill people to take life-ending medications prescribed by a doctor instead of waiting for death. This week, we talk with journalist Steven Petrow about his sister’s choice to use medical aid in dying. Guest: Steven Petrow, Journalist and author.
Tema de la semana: Preparativos para nuestra muerte.
Invitados:
Marisol Muñoz-Kiehne, PhD (“Doctora Marisol”), psicóloga, educadora, oradora, escritora, y fundadora de Cuerpo Corazón Comunidad.
Gabriela Vilchiz, Cuidadora y voluntaria con End of Life Choices California.
