Resources
Here are some valuable resources for anyone facing or supporting those at the end of life. We hope you find them useful.
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Cancer info and support
Information and guidance with end of life planning
Advance Care Planning - planning ahead
Bereavement support
The Good Grief Trust - lots of contact details for different services
Funerals
Collections of readings and funeral ideas
Other
Death Café - a place to come and have a conversation about death and dying
UK Network of death doulas - find a doula in your area
Nick Cave, the red hand files, on losing a loved one
Death doula photography project currently being created by Aloha Bonser Shaw.
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Dartington , Totnes and surrounding area
Whose will? Ltd - Rebecca Collett - Professional, fully qualified, insured Will Writer and End of Life Planner.
Totnes Caring - a charity offering wellbeing support to the local community
Vicki Beare - Counsellor with special interest in End of Life care
Singer and Sound healer at the threshold – contact info@dyingwithgrace.co.uk
Jacqueline Arnott - Maker of shrouds and adorments that are of this Land
“I work with the timeless practice of honouring the body with beautiful creations infused with the medicine of plants and place. Choosing to follow this path can offer deep support to the process of returning the body to its home in the Earth. When we look to the old, earth based, ways, we find valuable guidance for how we dress the body, what we lay it on and how we adorn it as sacred parts of the grieving and burial rites. I am available to create with you or on your behalf, a loving, meaningful cocoon to wrap around your loved one as they return to the elements. My work is completely bespoke and is in response to each calling. This means I can work to a brief through a doula or family member, directly with the person who is dying, or involve those that wish in the gathering and making process.”
Dartmoor
Community Kitchen Hub - Hot meal service
Beautiful shrouds made by Bellacouche
Exmouth & Exeter
Force - free cancer support in Exeter
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On Dying
Gentle Dying: the simple guide to achieving a peaceful death. Felicity Warner
The Five Invitations: Discovering what death can teach us about living fully. Frank Ostaseski.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Sogyal Rinpoche
When Breath Becomes Air: What makes life worth living in the face of death. Paul Kalanithi
Who Dies: An investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying. Stephen & Ondrea Levine.
With the End in Mind: How to Live and Die well. Kathryn Mannix
On Grief
It’s ok that you’re not ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a culture that doesn’t understand. Megan Devine
Loss of a parent: Adult grief when parents die. Expert Guidance and grief exercises. Theresa Jackson. Msc.
Meetings at the edge: Dialogues with the Grieving and the Dying, the Healing and the Healed. Stephen Levine.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of renewal and the Sacred work of grief. Francis Weller
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