Welcome to the End of Life Rhode Island Resource page! We are continuing to gather and organize these resources to provide the most streamlined user experience with the most up-to-date content.
End of Life InfoCaregiver InfoDoula InfoBooks, Articles & VideosServicesBereavement / Grief
- Glossary of Terms
- Palliative vs Hospice Cheatsheet
- Guide to 12 Common End-of-Life Decisions
- My End-of-Life Decisions: An Advanced Planning Guide and Toolkit
- Making Decisions for Someone at the End of Life
- Culturally Connected: An approach that brings together cultural humility and health literacy to help care providers and their clients develop shared understanding of each other’s values, beliefs, needs, and priorities.
- Coda Alliance: GoWish Cards
Advanced Planning
- I’m Dead, Now What?: Important Information About My Belongings, Business Affairs, and Wishes
- Advance Care Planning: Advance Directives for Health Care
- Getting Your Affairs in Order
- Living Wills and Advanced Directives for Medical Decisions
- Medicare, Advance Directives, and End of Life Counseling
- Five Wishes: Advanced Care Planning
Final Arrangements
- Rest in Peace, Not Pollutants: Green Burials Say ‘No Thanks’ to Chemicals in the Grave
- 3/7/2023 Rhode Island bill would allow ‘human composting’ as alternative to burial or cremation
- Burial & Cremation Laws in Rhode Island
Pets
- End of Life Doula Professional Liability Insurance
- National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA)
- How End-of-Life Doulas Can Support Hospices (PDF)
- End of Life Guideline Series: A Compilation of Barbara Karnes Booklets
Courses
Books
We encourage you to reach out to your local bookstore or library to purchase/rent any of these reads through them!
- Graceful Exits: How Great Beings Die (Death stories of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, and Zen masters) by Sushila Blackman
- Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson
- Death Nesting: Ancient & Modern Death Doula Techniques, Mindfulness Practices and Herbal Care by Anne-Marie Keppel
- Death Is But a Dream: Finding Hope and Meaning at Life’s End by Christopher Kerr
- Sacred Dying: Creating Rituals for Embracing the End of Life by Megory Anderson
- Visions, Trips, and Crowded Rooms: Who and What You See Before You Die by David Kessler
- Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory by Caitlin Doughty
- From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
- When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
- Dear Death,: Finding Meaning in Life, Peace in Death, and Joy in an Ordinary Day by Diane R. Button (and the Workbook & Companion Guide)