Before a loved one has passed

understanding their end-of-life wishes

• Just like birth doulas, death doulas focus on the needs and desires of the person dying. Find a death doula via DoulaGivers, INELDA, or Going with Grace.

• The conversation project has workbooks for helping to understand their end-of-life health wishes.

• Cake and Lantern have proactive end-of-life planning toolkits.

• Trust & Will offers affordable and legally binding trust and will documents.

Celebrating them and capturing their stories

• The Storycorps app and website have guides on voice recording and meaningful question prompts for interviewing your loved one.

• Roundglass created a very interesting resource on how to host a living wake. It's a bit radical, but there is also a terminal diagnosis toolkit that might be helpful to draw inspiration from.

• LifeWeb is a free way to capture stories and photos celebrating and honoring the person and their impact that is sort of like an asynchronous celebration of life, and the memories can later be turned into a book for their family.

anticipatory grief

• Grief often begins long before the death arrives. What’s Your Grief has a helpful overview of what to expect and how to process this type of “anticipatory” grief.

planning a celebration of life

• Our team at LifeWeb created a free, detailed guide to planning a Celebration of Life authentic to your loved one.

end-of-life logistics

• Lantern and Empathy provide free, step-by-step guidance for funeral planning and the logistics following a death.

• Atticus helps you manage the probate and estate settlement process.

grief support

• Find wonderful writing on grief by What’s Your Grief, Modern Loss, Alica Forneret, and Megan Devine.

• Sign up for customized, text-based grief support for you and up to 4 others on Grief Coach. They'll text you resources and tips, all year long, to help you feel less alone. If your friends want to help, but aren't sure how, they'll text them suggestions too.

• The Dinner Party is a platform for grieving 20- and 30-somethings to find peer community and build lasting relationships.

• The Compassionate Friends supports families after a child dies. They provide highly personal comfort, hope, and support to every family experiencing the death of a son or a daughter, a brother or a sister, or a grandchild, and helps others better assist the grieving family.

• Option B is dedicated to helping people build resilience in the face of adversity—and giving them the tools to help their family, friends, and community build resilience too.

children’s grief

• The Eluna Network has been providing in person and online resources for grieving children and families for the last 20 years.

• Good Grief provides free support to children, teens, young adults, and families after the death of a mother, father, sister, or brother through peer support programs, education, and advocacy.

• The National Alliance for Grieving Children raises awareness about the needs of children and teens who are grieving a death and provides education and resources for anyone who supports them, including a comprehensive list of programs by US state.

• The Dougy Center provides support in a safe place where children, teens, young adults and their families grieving a death can share their experiences, and has a number of resources.

• My Good Grief Journal App, recommended by the Eluna Network (who have a wonderful library of resources). Activities & journaling to spark conversations between grieving children and their adults.