I am committed to ensuring you have the resources necessary to immerse yourself fully in Deathwork. To this end, I've curated a collection of resources to guide you on your journey. From enlightening articles to insightful books, thought-provoking movies to comforting music, engaging podcasts to supplementary assistance, I aim to provide a comprehensive toolkit to support you in your endeavors. Together, let's ensure that you have the tools and knowledge to navigate the realm of Deathwork with compassion and purpose.
Deathwork: The act of intentionally creating, nurturing, protecting, and/or supporting the dead, the dying and/or their grieving.
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When planning for your future medical care, prepare your advance directives to be sure your loved ones make health choices according to your wishes. Select your state to find free advance directive forms for where you live. You’ll find instructions on how to fill out the forms at each link.
https://www.aarp.org/caregiving/financial-legal/free-printable-advance-directives/
Create a free will or trust to support the people and causes you care about most even after you’re gone.
https://www.freewill.com/our-products
Body donation to established universities offers families low-cost to no-cost cremation. The study of the human body for education, research and the advancement of medical and dental science or the development of therapies constitutes an indispensable part of medical and dental education.
Harvard Anatomical Gift Program - Each year Harvard Medical School (HMS) needs human anatomical donations for medical and dental education and research.
University of California San Francisco Willed Body Program - The program accepts human body donations for anatomical studies essential to teaching and research at UCSF and its associates.
The Anatomical Board of the State of Florida is a nonprofit state organization responsible for receiving, preparing (embalming), storing and distributing donations of human cadavers used in medical education and research programs throughout the state. They also display of listing of US Based Programs
How to avoid Medical Dotation Fraud - H3 suggested reading
Mecure has been independently owned since 2005, MedCure is dedicated to serving donors, caregivers, and the medical community by following all applicable industry regulations, treating donors compassionately, and connecting donors to the researchers and educators who depend on them to help improve the lives of others.
Science Care is a body donation to science program that offers no-cost cremation. Helping future generations through improved scientific research and education.
BioGift Anatomical is a whole body anatomical donation company located in Portland, OR. They accept whole body donations to facilitate medical research or education only. They do not accept anatomical donations for transplant.
AATB The American Association of Tissue Banks (AATB) is a national tissue banking organization, dedicated to educating tissue banks around the country on the highest quality, safety, and ethical standards. With a list of over 120 accredited tissue establishments around the world are committed to the quality and safety of donated human tissue.
How to avoid Medical Dotation Fraud - H3 suggested reading
Green burial is a way of caring for the dead with minimal environmental impact that aids in the conservation of natural resources, reduction of carbon emissions, protection of worker health,and the restoration and/or preservation of habitat.
https://www.greenburialcouncil.org/
Other Disposition Options: https://www.greenburialcouncil.org/other_disposition_options.html
a non-profit organization empowering you to choose simple, meaningful, affordable after-death arrangements.
https://funerals.org/
Writing an obituary can be a daunting and emotional activity. Recompose created this guide to help make the process more manageable and straightforward.
Recompose is a public benefit corporation powered by people who believe in changing the current death care paradigm.
https://recompose.life/death-care/how-to-write-an-obituary/
A Death Cafe is a group directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. It is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counselling session.
https://deathcafe.com/