Resources

PLEASE MAKE USE OF THE MANY RESOURCES WE HAVE AVAILABLE ON OUR WEBSITE

KORU PUBLICATIONS


• Frequently Asked Questions
• Guide at Death

ADVANCED & MINDFUL PLANNING

• Advanced Care Planning Workbook
• Being An Executor
• Body Donation Program
• Conscious Dying Institute
• End-of-Life-Doula Certificate: Douglas College Faculty of Health Sciences
• Go Wish Card Game – Promoting advanced discussions for end-of-life care
• Personal Planning Resource Centre and Registry
• The Conversation Project
• WILLOW End of Life Education and Planning
• Will Tool Kit – through Executor Protection

ADVOCACY

• AquamationBC Coalition (alkaline hydrolysis or green cremation)
• BC Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support
• Patient Pathways
• STOP Unwanted Mail after Death

ASSOCIATIONS

• BC Funeral Association
• Canadian Association of MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying)
• Community Deathcare Canada
• Death Doula Network of BC
• Green Burial Society of Canada
• Green Burial Council

DEATH CONVERSATIONS & EXPRESSIONS OF GRIEF

• Death Conversation Game, by Angela Fama
• Grief Landscapes

GRIEF AND BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUPS

• Andrea Warnick Consulting, supporting grieving children, youth and adults
• BC Bereavement Help Line
• Bereavement Walking Program, Vancouver Hospice Society
• Bridge C-14, Grief Support Groups for MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) Families
• Canadian Virtual Hospice
• Centre for Loss & Life Transition with Dr. Alan Wolfelt
• Children and Youth Grief Network
• Children’s Grief Foundation of Canada
• Creative Climate Counselling
• Living Through Loss Counselling Society of BC
• Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society
• Lumara Society – Home of Camp Kerry
• Palliative Support Centre
• Pay What You Can Peer Support
• Refuge in Grief: grief support that doesn’t suck
• Vancouver Coastal Health
• Vancouver Hospice Society
• Weaver of Light Grief Support, with Penny Brown, Bereavement Companion~ [email protected]

LIFE CELEBRANTS, CEREMONIALISTS & DEATH DOULAS

• Be Ceremonial, by Megan Sheldon
• Death Doula, EndWell, Tracy Chalmers
• In Wholeness, Tricia Keith
• Life Celebrant BC, Kim Evans
• Life Threads, Abegael Fisher-Lang
• Paula Skalnek
• Seeking Ceremony, Megan Sheldon
• Simply Ceremony, Lisa Hartley
• Vancity Officiant, Kevin Leung

PROVINCIAL ASSISTANCE

Ministry of Social Development & Poverty Reduction

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

TRUSTED PROFESSIONALS

• Estate Law Services, Melanie Magnusson
• Financial Advisor, The Lifestyle Protector, Lynn Williams
• Mortgage Broker, The Mortgage Group, Julie Isaac
• Professional Organizing (Vancouver), Good Riddance Professional Organizing Solutions
• Realtor, Aislynn Radley
• Will Planning, Mark Braeder

BOOKS & VIDEOS

• “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

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)

RECOMMENDED VIDEOS:

• Children and Youth Grief Network
• The Life of Death (watch on youtube)
• Australian Story