Your life, your choice:
Advanced Planning for Serious Illness
Organizations
The Conversation Project
https://theconversationproject.org
Provides a guide for how to have a conversation about your end-of-life wishes.
Massachusetts Coalition for Serious Illness care
Helps healthcare organizations educate patients about health care choices.
End-of-Life terms
It's hard to make decisions about your end-of-life care if you don't know the meaning of medical and legal terms. This glossary will give you information you need to create your own care plan.
Books
There are many wonderful and helpful books about death and dying. A good place to start is with these two books by medical doctors.
Gawande, Atul. Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End. Metropolitan Books, 2014.
Kalanithi, Paul. When Breath Becomes Air,
Random House, 2016.