Private Link for those in the 13-week End-of-Life Preparation Immersion Course

Resources for Participants

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Welcome!
In advance of the Immersion Course,
please do these preliminaries.

Week 1

Death as Teacher, Death as Gift:

Introduction, Intentions, Principles, Buddies, Invitations, Curiosity

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

Print out a paper version of the FIVE WISHES here.

Print out the End-of-Life Checklist here as a .pdf or here as a .doc.

This Weeks Resources:

The Magic of Fascia.

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Week 2

Designing Your Sacred Decline:

Health Care Agent, Patient Advocacy, Death Care Teams, How to Talk to Loved Ones.

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

Have Access to these Documents:

This Weeks Resources:

Patient Advocacy & Death Doulas

Patient Advocate Karen Sanders: rnpatientadvocacync.com
Death Doulas:
Conscious/Alternative Funeral Directors
- Asheville: Meredith Springs (Ask me for her info)
Education at OLLI (Asheville). These folks often have estate planning, advanced directives, and other end of life topics.

Sample Letters (Optional)

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Week 3

Cultivating the Qualities that Make for a Good Death:

Characteristics for Dying & How to Curate them!, Death contemplations & Death Humor, Courting the Mystical: Songs, Chants, Journaling, Poems

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

Bring Questions from Last Time

This Weeks Resources:

Death Related Playlists:

Youtube Playlist

Spotify Playlist

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Week 4

Honoring the Container with YOUR Values:

Medical Interventions, Pain Management, Alternative Endings, Being at Choice

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

Do this online exercise: Online GO-WISH CARD GAME

This Weeks Resources:

Resources for Final Exit Choices

Voluntary Stopping of Eating and Drinking
Compassion & Choices (formerly Hemlock Society)
Dignified Death Option

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Week 5

Embodied Living & Dying:

Falling in Love with All of Existence, Tantra and the Practice of Surfing, Our eternal nature….Death-Informed Practices.

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

Bring Questions from Last Time

This Weeks Resources:

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Week 6

A Roadmap for Self & Others:

Important paperwork for crucial moments!

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

This Weeks Resources:

Health Care (Medical) POA – A Legal Addition

NC Medical/Health Care Power of Attorney

Specific Medical Orders

MOST Document or printable version here (best to put on bright colored paper).
DNR – Do Not Resuscitate (the links are all broken on the NCDHHS site). This is the only one I could find online – there’s really no place to order.
I can no longer find the site to order these forms. Ask at your Health Department or local hospital.

Medical Release & HIPAA

Simple Medical Release Form
HIPAA Info:
- HIPAA is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and it requires that healthcare facilities (hospitals, clinics, and private practices…) who have access to Protected Health Information (PHI) take actions to ensure the protection of patient data.
- Your rights under HIPAA
- HIPAA Release Form
- Medical Release Form by State

Dementia Directive

Dementia Directive Site for Downloading Directive

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Week 7

Tuning into Your Soul’s Blueprint:

Embodied Dying, Trauma Release, Psychedelics, & The Practice of Dying

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

Bring Questions from Last Time

This Weeks Resources:

Resources for Sacrament Based Death Practices

The Toad & The Jaguar by Ralph Metzger (free .pdf)
There are a zillion podcasts about psychedelics. Search around.
Michael Pollen’s resources (so many).
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

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Week 8

Returning the Vessel:

After Death Choices re: Body & Spirit Care, Vigil & Funeral Options, Disposition of the Body

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

This Weeks Resources:

After Death Options:

Aquamation (Eco Friendship Alternative to Cremation)

Human Aquamation

Egg Capsule

Capsula Mundi

Green Burial in WNC

In WNC: Carolina Memorial Sanctuary
Other Places: Conservation Burial Alliance or Search Conservation Burial or Green Burial

Composting of Bodies

Urban Death Project at Western Carolina University. Video. NY Times Article. TED Talk.
Recompose website. One Zero article. Legal in Washington State. $5,500.
Infinity Burial Suit.

Donation of Body:

Excellent Resource from WikiHow re: Donating Body.
Body Farms for research of decay and decomposition.
Donation of Body to Science
- List of Places that Accept Bodies
- National Willed Body Programs
- Policies Regarding Body Donation by the American Association of Anatomy

Home Death Care

The Art of Natural Death Care by the Sophia Center in Greensboro, NC. Gorgeous overview video.
Crossings Care: Caring for our own at Death.

Home Funerals & Home Burials

- General Info:
- Resources for:
  - Techni Ice
  - Meredith Springs <mlpsprings9@outlook.com>

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Week 9

Caring for the Dead:

Active Dying, The Moments Leading to Death, Traditions from our Past, Caring for our own at Death,

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

Declaration Regarding Disposition of Physical Body

Authorization for Cremation

Word Doc

Death Certificate

This Weeks Resources:

Resources for Sacrament Based Death Practices

The Toad & The Jaguar by Ralph Metzger (free .pdf)
There are a zillion podcasts about psychedelics. Search around.
Michael Pollen’s resources (so many).
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies

This Weeks Content

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Week 10

The Blessed Giveaway:

Financial Considerations, Caring for Pets, & Strategies for Stuff

This Weeks TO-DO’s:

This Weeks Resources:

Financial Resources

NC Durable Power of Attorney
Free Resource for Estate Planning (I have not used this but someone sent it and it looks worthwhile. Let me know if you’ve had an experience with it – either positive or negative.)
NC Lawyer who is willing to work by the hour: www.dykeslawfirm.com.
NoxBox for organizing all your documents.