Resources - Threshold Care Circle - Integrating after-death care into family and community life.

Resources

Documentary on DVD: A Family Undertaking

Books
Albom, Mitch; Tuesdays with Morrie.
Anderson, Megory; Sacred Dying.
Carlson, Lisa; Caring for the Dead, Your Final Act of Love.
Crossings; Resource Guide: A Manual for Home Funeral Care
Lyons, Jerri; Preplanning for a Home or Family-Directed Funeral.
Morgan, Ernest; Dealing Creatively with Death: Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial.
Poer, Nancy; Living Into Dying: A Journal of Spiritual and Practical Deathcare for Family and Community.
Starhawk; The Pagan Book of Living and Dying.
Wiskind, Julie & Spiegel, Richard; Coming to Rest: Guide to Caring for Our Own Dead.
York, Sarah; Remembering Well: Rituals for Celebrating Life and Mourning Death.

On the Web….

Conservation Cemetery - www.naturallegacies.org
Crossings: Caring for our own at death - www.crossings.net
Final Passages - www.finalpassages.org
Green Burials - www.forestofmemories.org; www.cemetarygroup.org
Hospice Foundation of America - www.hospicefoundation.org
Natural Burial Cooperative - www.naturalburial.ca
The Funeral Consumers Alliance - www.funerals.org
Thresholds: Home and family directed funerals - www.thresholds.us

Crossings Care Circle

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I’m going to miss mine by just a few days.

— Garrison Keillor

Eventually, we must all face our own death.

How comforting if those left behind after we die know our “final wishes” and the details needed to carry them out.

Our hope is that, by envisioning this process in thoughtful detail before it is imminent, each of us will be able to enter this final journey with calm dignity and loving support, and with as little fear and anxiety as possible.

The Threshold Care Circle of Viroqua has published a booklet, My Final Wishes, which offers you a way to record that information. It is a fill-in-the-blank workbook for you to record your preferences for end of life and afterward. It includes wishes for funeral, burial and memorial services; information for your death certificate and obituary; and the location of papers needed to handle your estate as well as phone numbers of important people to call.

Filling out the booklet gives us an opportunity to reflect on our lives and who and what is important to us. It will also be a great comfort to those we leave behind if they know our wishes and the details needed to carry them out.

My Final Wishes is available for a donation of $10 plus $.75 shipping. Contact the TCC for price if ordering more than 10 books. To order your copy, call Susan Nesbit at 608-606-4566 or download an order form.