END OF LIFE PREPARATION
IDAHO SPECIFIC RESOURCES
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End-of-Life Doulas Idaho
End of Life Doulas of Idaho is an organization that seeks to connect the terminally ill and their families with emotional and practical support. But, they know death isn't just for the dying...their doulas also focus on community education, preplanning, eco conscious practices and grief support. Are you curious about becoming an end-of-life doula? Do you have questions about what the work actually looks like? Join the End-Of-Life Doulas of Idaho for a free open discussion around certifying and what to expect when pursuing an interest in death work. They believe that the community will be best served by having a diverse and inclusive network of death workers. They are often asked how to start the journey to become an End-of-Life Doula. In an effort to make information about death work accessible to all, they host a free meeting every other month where they chat about ways to become certified, companies that their doulas have loved and the details of death work. They know that our community is best served by having a diverse and inclusive network of Death Workers. Pull a chair up because there is plenty of room at their table! Browse their directory of End-of-Life Doulas, blog and resource list at: https://www.eoldoulasid.org/ |
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End-of-Life Doulas of Idaho: Living With Death Gatherings
2nd Wednesday every month from 7:00 - 8:30 PM Alsip & Persons Funeral Chapel, 404 10th Avenue S., Nampa, ID 83651 Upcoming 2024 Dates Include: December 11 Living and Dying are two sides of the same coin, you can't have one without the other. The End-of-Life Doulas of Idaho have created a free monthly meeting for the community to find support, education and connections. We are all students of life, continuously learning to live with Death, Dying and Grief. Spend some time with them in-person at our monthly Living with Death events. https://www.eoldoulasid.org/events |
Idaho Family Records
Get answers related to estates, regulations regarding care & burial of a body, wills, healthcare directives, and divorce.
Register a death or order a death certificate copy.
https://www.idaho.gov/family-records/death/
Get answers related to estates, regulations regarding care & burial of a body, wills, healthcare directives, and divorce.
Register a death or order a death certificate copy.
https://www.idaho.gov/family-records/death/
Wish Granters, Inc.
Wish Granter’s mission is to improve the quality of life of terminally ill Idaho adults and their primary caregivers, by granting them wishes and by supporting projects in their local communities, thereby providing opportunities for these adults and their loved ones to have lasting memories to cherish forever.
https://www.wishgranters.org/
Wish Granter’s mission is to improve the quality of life of terminally ill Idaho adults and their primary caregivers, by granting them wishes and by supporting projects in their local communities, thereby providing opportunities for these adults and their loved ones to have lasting memories to cherish forever.
https://www.wishgranters.org/
General Resources
1st 24 - Bereavement Concierge Services
1st 24 Bereavement Concierge Services is designed to help ease the load by assisting you every step of the way after the loss of your loved one.
Their goal is to give you the comfort, relief and security of knowing you're affairs are being properly handled allowing you time to grieve and
cope with your loss. They also assist with preplanning for the passing of a loved one to ensure all is in order
https://www.facebook.com/thebereavementconcierge
https://www.instagram.com/jennidee14/
https://www.1st24loss.com/
1st 24 Bereavement Concierge Services is designed to help ease the load by assisting you every step of the way after the loss of your loved one.
Their goal is to give you the comfort, relief and security of knowing you're affairs are being properly handled allowing you time to grieve and
cope with your loss. They also assist with preplanning for the passing of a loved one to ensure all is in order
https://www.facebook.com/thebereavementconcierge
https://www.instagram.com/jennidee14/
https://www.1st24loss.com/
Before I Go Solutions
Before I Go Solutions is a not for profit, dedicated to having end of life plans become as commonplace as birth plans. It's social aim is to enable
carers/caregivers and the cared for to have access to the products and programs for free.
https://beforeigosolutions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/beforeigosolutions/
Before I Go Solutions is a not for profit, dedicated to having end of life plans become as commonplace as birth plans. It's social aim is to enable
carers/caregivers and the cared for to have access to the products and programs for free.
https://beforeigosolutions.com/
https://www.facebook.com/beforeigosolutions/
Cake
Cake is the easiest way to think about the end of your life. It doesn't have to be so hard. 100% of people die, but most of us don't plan for it--this can
lead to physical and emotional suffering as well as financial losses. Cake makes it easy to start thinking about your values around end-of-life.
Cake's simple interface guides you through a series of simple propositions, and outputs a life handbook of your preferences that you can share with
your loved ones, your doctor, your lawyer, and anyone else you think should know. Cake is a FREE service!
https://www.joincake.com/
https://www.facebook.com/joinCAKEapp/
Cake is the easiest way to think about the end of your life. It doesn't have to be so hard. 100% of people die, but most of us don't plan for it--this can
lead to physical and emotional suffering as well as financial losses. Cake makes it easy to start thinking about your values around end-of-life.
Cake's simple interface guides you through a series of simple propositions, and outputs a life handbook of your preferences that you can share with
your loved ones, your doctor, your lawyer, and anyone else you think should know. Cake is a FREE service!
https://www.joincake.com/
https://www.facebook.com/joinCAKEapp/
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Death Café hosted by The Heartway
Last Monday of every month from 3:30 – 5:00 PM PT via Zoom Explore the mysteries of death and transform perceptions about life's final transition at the Heartway Death Café, a welcoming, open, and safe environment to discuss any thoughts or fears about life, death, and beyond. Their objective is to foster an awareness of death that leads to a more fulfilling life! Join them on the last Monday of every month from 3:30 – 5:00 PM PT via Zoom (courtesy of the SusiQ -- the nurturing home of Laguna Beach Seniors). The next meeting is Monday, July 29, 2024. At their monthly online discussion groups, attendees become more intimate with death and transform their fears around the end-of-life transition. In a relaxed, open, and safe atmosphere, participants are invited to share any issues or fears surrounding life and death. Please note that Death Café events are a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session. Join facilitator Dr. Andrea Deerheart, Founder of The HeartWay, for a thought-provoking and inspiring discussion. Everyone is welcome! The FREE monthly Death Café features: - A relaxed, open, and safe atmosphere where attendees are invited to share issues surrounding life anddeath - A focus on increasing awareness of death to help participants and their loved ones make the most of finite lives - A respectful, and confidential space, with no agenda— there is never any intention to lead people toward a conclusion, product, or course of action Find out more and register at www.theheartway.org/death-cafe |
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Death Over Dinner
Death Over Dinner helps people organize dinners that involve explicitly talking about death with friends and family. Death Over Dinner events provide the opportunity for guests to honestly acknowledge their feelings about a loss, their own eventual death, or both.
https://deathoverdinner.org/#intro
Death Over Dinner helps people organize dinners that involve explicitly talking about death with friends and family. Death Over Dinner events provide the opportunity for guests to honestly acknowledge their feelings about a loss, their own eventual death, or both.
https://deathoverdinner.org/#intro
The Digital Beyond
The Digital Beyond is a blog about your digital existence and what happens to it after your death. We’re the go-to source for archival, cultural,
legal and technical insights to help you predict and plan for the future of your online content.
http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/
The Digital Beyond is a blog about your digital existence and what happens to it after your death. We’re the go-to source for archival, cultural,
legal and technical insights to help you predict and plan for the future of your online content.
http://www.thedigitalbeyond.com/
An Essential Guide to Pre-Planning Your Funeral - Guest Post By Charley Sunday
This article discusses the importance of arranging funeral plans in advance to ease the burden on loved ones and ensure personal wishes are honored.
It covers key steps in the pre-planning process, such as choosing burial or cremation, setting a budget, and documenting preferences for services and memorials.
https://www.mygriefconnection.org/blog/an-essential-guide-to-pre-planning-your-funeral
This article discusses the importance of arranging funeral plans in advance to ease the burden on loved ones and ensure personal wishes are honored.
It covers key steps in the pre-planning process, such as choosing burial or cremation, setting a budget, and documenting preferences for services and memorials.
https://www.mygriefconnection.org/blog/an-essential-guide-to-pre-planning-your-funeral
FREE End-of-Life and Health Legal Forms by FormsPal
Online legal documents and forms for health care and end-of-life wishes.
https://formspal.com/health-support/
Online legal documents and forms for health care and end-of-life wishes.
https://formspal.com/health-support/
FreeWill
A will is important for everyone and can be useful regardless of estate size. It's a way to support the people and causes important to you.
Having a will ensures that your wishes are known, saving your loved ones the stress and cost of intestate probate proceedings.
Get peace of mind in just 20 minutes by creating or updating your legally‑binding will for free with FreeWill.
FreeWill’s no-charge product is made possible with the support of nonprofit organizations.
https://www.freewill.com/
A will is important for everyone and can be useful regardless of estate size. It's a way to support the people and causes important to you.
Having a will ensures that your wishes are known, saving your loved ones the stress and cost of intestate probate proceedings.
Get peace of mind in just 20 minutes by creating or updating your legally‑binding will for free with FreeWill.
FreeWill’s no-charge product is made possible with the support of nonprofit organizations.
https://www.freewill.com/
Final Exit Network
Final Exit Network is a national non-profit (501c3) organization serving qualified people — in all 50 states. Their mission is to educate qualified
individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives, offer a compassionate bedside presence and defend their right to choose.
https://finalexitnetwork.org/
Final Exit Network is a national non-profit (501c3) organization serving qualified people — in all 50 states. Their mission is to educate qualified
individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives, offer a compassionate bedside presence and defend their right to choose.
https://finalexitnetwork.org/
Get Your Shit Together
Get Your Shit Together, launched in 2013 to provide no BS life and death planning tips and advice. The information is there to help people complete critical
end-of-life planning documents like wills, living wills and advance care directives, and having an emergency savings and the right insurance to be less vulnerable.
https://www.facebook.com/GYSTnow/
https://getyourshittogether.org/
Get Your Shit Together, launched in 2013 to provide no BS life and death planning tips and advice. The information is there to help people complete critical
end-of-life planning documents like wills, living wills and advance care directives, and having an emergency savings and the right insurance to be less vulnerable.
https://www.facebook.com/GYSTnow/
https://getyourshittogether.org/
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Good To Go!
Good To Go! is an unconventional advance planning company that guides you through your "Departure File" in a party atmosphere. Before Covid, we had pot luck dishes to share! Cocktails! Laughs! A Rock and Roll Death-Themed soundtrack! But now, they have virtual G2G! parties on Zoom instead! Be more like Bowie and less like Prince and get organized just in case something happens to you! Don't make your loved ones guess! https://goodtogopeace.org |
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The HeartWay
The HeartWay serves those who are at end of life transitions, their caregivers, and loved ones. They help individuals reflect on why they're here, prepare for a
time when they are not, and live fully through the end. The HeartWay is called to support and love the dying and their families as they navigate the most
beautiful transition there is. They provides invaluable support by collaboratively crafting a visionary map alongside individuals nearing the end of their lives
and their families. This empowering process aids in navigating the intricate challenges of fear, complex medical systems, emotional and spiritual terrains, as well
as practical decisions related to end-of-life matters. During the end-of-life transition, we support the dying, their caregivers, and their loved ones by providing:
End-of-Life Care, End-of-Life Advocacy & Planning, Grief Counseling, Personal Education, and Healing Meditations, Ceremonies, Funerals & Memorial Services.
https://the-heartway.mykajabi.com/
The HeartWay serves those who are at end of life transitions, their caregivers, and loved ones. They help individuals reflect on why they're here, prepare for a
time when they are not, and live fully through the end. The HeartWay is called to support and love the dying and their families as they navigate the most
beautiful transition there is. They provides invaluable support by collaboratively crafting a visionary map alongside individuals nearing the end of their lives
and their families. This empowering process aids in navigating the intricate challenges of fear, complex medical systems, emotional and spiritual terrains, as well
as practical decisions related to end-of-life matters. During the end-of-life transition, we support the dying, their caregivers, and their loved ones by providing:
End-of-Life Care, End-of-Life Advocacy & Planning, Grief Counseling, Personal Education, and Healing Meditations, Ceremonies, Funerals & Memorial Services.
https://the-heartway.mykajabi.com/
International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA)
INELDA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing deeper meaning and greater comfort to dying
people and loved ones in the last days of life.
https://www.inelda.org/
https://www.facebook.com/inelda.org
INELDA is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing deeper meaning and greater comfort to dying
people and loved ones in the last days of life.
https://www.inelda.org/
https://www.facebook.com/inelda.org
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LEARN: Life Long Learning & Aging Network - End of Life Channel
LEARN's End of Life channel was created to get vide resources and articles on End of Life, Preplanning and Advanced Directives, Funerals and Celebrations of Life, and Grief Aftercare availible to the public. Content on this channel is presented in partnership with Alsip & Persons Funeral Chapel, Hillcreast Memorial Gardens, and Relyea Funeral Chaple in Idaho. https://learnidaho.org/end-of-life/ |
A Little-Known Economic Benefit for Bereaved Children by Evermore
There is a little-known economic benefit that a bereaved child may be eligible to receive if either of their parents participated in the United States workforce. This Social Security benefit is available to some bereaved children, payable upon their parents’ death. Learn more by reading this article from Evermore:
https://evermore.org/a-little-known-economic-benefit-for-bereaved-children/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=5e441834-a901-4b7b-a710-6dc4d4ebc538
There is a little-known economic benefit that a bereaved child may be eligible to receive if either of their parents participated in the United States workforce. This Social Security benefit is available to some bereaved children, payable upon their parents’ death. Learn more by reading this article from Evermore:
https://evermore.org/a-little-known-economic-benefit-for-bereaved-children/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=5e441834-a901-4b7b-a710-6dc4d4ebc538
National POLST
The POLST (Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) process helps patients get the medical treatments they want, and avoid the medical
treatments they do not want, when they are seriously ill or frail. It's about helping people live the way they want until they die. POLST encourages
patients and their health care professionals to talk about what patients want at the end of life. After talking, the patient and his/her health care
professional may be able to make informed, shared decisions about what treatments the patient wants, or does not want, and put them on a POLST form.
This form is a portable medical order that emergency personnel can follow whenever, and wherever, the patient has a medical emergency and can't
speak for himself/herself. It is different from an advance directive.The POLST form is a way for the patient to say "Yes, I want CPR and full treatment" or
"No, I want to stay where I am and be made comfortable," or something in the middle. The POLST form can be changed or voided at anytime.
https://polst.org/
https://www.facebook.com/NationalPOLST
https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalPOLST/videos
The POLST (Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) process helps patients get the medical treatments they want, and avoid the medical
treatments they do not want, when they are seriously ill or frail. It's about helping people live the way they want until they die. POLST encourages
patients and their health care professionals to talk about what patients want at the end of life. After talking, the patient and his/her health care
professional may be able to make informed, shared decisions about what treatments the patient wants, or does not want, and put them on a POLST form.
This form is a portable medical order that emergency personnel can follow whenever, and wherever, the patient has a medical emergency and can't
speak for himself/herself. It is different from an advance directive.The POLST form is a way for the patient to say "Yes, I want CPR and full treatment" or
"No, I want to stay where I am and be made comfortable," or something in the middle. The POLST form can be changed or voided at anytime.
https://polst.org/
https://www.facebook.com/NationalPOLST
https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalPOLST/videos
NokBox
The Nokbox is a complete system that helps you organize all of your accounts, possessions, social media presence, communities, kids, pets,
personal history, and estate plans (even if you don't have estate plans yet!). The Nokbox covers every aspect of your life (even down to the organization
of your keys) and also helps your NOK (Next Of Kin) manage your estate when you are gone with checklists and tips. It will save priceless hours for
both you and your NOK. Regardless of your age or your phase of life, having a Nokbox is a pretty wonderful thing. It keeps you organized while you
are living, and it's a wonderful gift to your NOK. You'll feel great when you have it completed!
https://www.thenokbox.com/
The Nokbox is a complete system that helps you organize all of your accounts, possessions, social media presence, communities, kids, pets,
personal history, and estate plans (even if you don't have estate plans yet!). The Nokbox covers every aspect of your life (even down to the organization
of your keys) and also helps your NOK (Next Of Kin) manage your estate when you are gone with checklists and tips. It will save priceless hours for
both you and your NOK. Regardless of your age or your phase of life, having a Nokbox is a pretty wonderful thing. It keeps you organized while you
are living, and it's a wonderful gift to your NOK. You'll feel great when you have it completed!
https://www.thenokbox.com/
The Order of the Good Death
The Order is about making death a part of your life. Staring down your death fears—whether it be your own death, the death of
those you love, the pain of dying, the afterlife (or lack thereof), grief, corpses, bodily decomposition, or all of the above.
Accepting that death itself is natural, but the death anxiety of modern culture is not.
http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/
The Order is about making death a part of your life. Staring down your death fears—whether it be your own death, the death of
those you love, the pain of dying, the afterlife (or lack thereof), grief, corpses, bodily decomposition, or all of the above.
Accepting that death itself is natural, but the death anxiety of modern culture is not.
http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/
Pension Rights Center
Pension Rights Center is a nonprofit consumer organization committed to protecting and promoting the retirement security
of American workers, retirees, and their families.
http://www.pensionrights.org/
Pension Rights Center is a nonprofit consumer organization committed to protecting and promoting the retirement security
of American workers, retirees, and their families.
http://www.pensionrights.org/
Social Security Survivor Benefits Overview
Social Security survivor benefits can provide important income to survivors. Widows and widowers, divorced surviving spouses,
young children, and even dependent parents of a worker may be entitled to receive monthly benefits. This article breaks down the
information on who is eligible for these benefits and how to access them into manage, understandable chunks.
https://socialsecurity.findlaw.com/social-security-basics/social-security-survivor-benefits-overview.html
Social Security survivor benefits can provide important income to survivors. Widows and widowers, divorced surviving spouses,
young children, and even dependent parents of a worker may be entitled to receive monthly benefits. This article breaks down the
information on who is eligible for these benefits and how to access them into manage, understandable chunks.
https://socialsecurity.findlaw.com/social-security-basics/social-security-survivor-benefits-overview.html
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The Swan Song Project
The Swan Song Project is a UK based charity that gives people facing end of life and bereavement the opportunity to write and record their own original song. This song writing process is therapeutic, enjoyable and allows people to add something special and unique to their legacy. During the pandemic they have made their service available virtually which makes it available to more people all across the UK. To learn more about what they offer, how you can donate, and/or how to work with them to create your own Swan Song, visit their website at: http://www.swansongproject.co.uk/ Follow them on Instagram: @swansongproject |
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