PLEASE MAKE USE OF THE MANY RESOURCES WE HAVE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE
- Guide at Death
- Cemetery Directory
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Service Canada, CPP Death Benefits
- Service Canada, CPP Survivor’s Pension and Children’s Benefits
- End of Life Guide Training
- Body Donation Program
- Being An Executor
- Personal Planning Resource Centre and Registry
- Writing a will
- The Conversation Project
- STOP Unwanted Mail after Death
- BC Funeral Association
- Canadian Association of MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying)
THE FOLLOWING ARE LINKS TO LOCAL GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUPS
- BC Bereavement Help Line
- Living Through Loss Counselling Society of BC
- Creative Climate Counselling
- Andrea Warnick Consulting, supporting grieving children, youth and adults
- Weaver of Light Grief Support, with Penny Brown, Bereavement Companion~ pennybrown@shaw.ca
- Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society
- Vancouver Hospice Society
- Delta Hospice Society
- Vancouver Coastal Health
- Centre for Loss & Life Transition with Dr. Alan Wolfelt
- Palliative Support Centre
- Bereavement Walking Program, Vancouver Hospice Society
- Refuge in Grief: grief support that doesn’t suck
ADVOCACY
BOOKS
- “Anam Cara” by John O’Donohue
- “Being Mortal” by Atul Gawande
- “Final Gifts” by Maggie Callahan and Patricia Kelley
- “It’s OK That You’re Not OK” by Megan Devine
- “The Heart Does Break: Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning” by Jean Baird and George Bowering
- “The Letters from Motherless Daughters” by Hope Edelman
- “The Mourners Dance: What We Do When People Die” by Katherine Ashenburg
- “The Year of Magical Thinking” by Joan Didion
BOOKS FOR CHILDREN
- “Cry Heart, But Never Break” by Glenn Ringtved
- “Why Did Grandpa Die?” by Barbara Shook Hazen
- “Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss” by Pat Schwiebert and Chuck DeKlyen
- “The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life For All Ages” by Leo Buscaglia
- “Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children” by Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen
- “Saying Goodbye to Lulu by Corrine Demas
- “Chester Raccoon and the Acorn Full of Memories” by Audrey Penn
- “The Heart and the Bottle” by Oliver Jeffers
- “Missing Mummy” by Rebecca Cobb
EXPRESSIONS OF GRIEF
LIFE CELEBRANTS
MINDFUL PLANNING
- Stephen Garrett
- WILLOW: End of Life Planning & Personal Development
- Go Wish Card Game – Promoting advanced discussions for end-of-life care
- End-of-Life-Doula Certificate: Douglas College Faculty of Health Sciences
POETRY
- “The Art of Losing: Poems of Grief and Healing” by Kevin Young
- “Poems of Mourning” Everyman’s Library
- Emily Dickinson, “I Measure Every Grief I Meet”, “After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes”, “I Can Wade Grief” (to name but a few)
PROVINCIAL ASSISTANCE
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Ministry of Social Development & Social Innovation
If someone dies without any financial means to pay for funeral costs (i.e.: cremation or burial services), a request to the Ministry can be made for full payment.
Funeral Costs
Public Guardian & Trustee Office (PGT)
If someone dies and there is no one able or willing to administer the estate and take care of funeral-related expenses, assistance can be requested through the PGT office. Executors, intestate successors and beneficiaries wanting to refer an estate to PGT Estate and Personal Trust Services are encouraged to contact our office and speak with an Estate and Personal Trust Services Duty Officer prior to submitting a referral.
Estate Services
RECOMMENDED VIDEOS:
- Beyond Goodbye
- How to Have a Good Death: Katherine Sleeman
- Denali
- DNA Memorials
- Children and Youth Grief Network
- The Life of Death
TRUSTED PROFESSIONALS
- Green Burial Society of Canada
- Estate Law Services, Melanie Magnusson
- Financial Advisor, Lynn Williams
- Naturopathic Physician / Acupuncturist (Richmond), Dr. Carin Matsushita
- Naturopathic Physician / Acupuncturist (Vancouver), Dr. Cathy Sevcik
- Professional Organizing(Delta and Surrey)Debby Lea
- Professional Organizing (Vancouver), Susan Borax
- Will Planning, Mark Braeder
