Please make use of the many resources we have available on our website.
- Advanced Care Planning Workbook
- Being An Executor
- Body Donation Program
- Conscious Dying Institute
- Death’s Apprentice
- 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
- AquamationBC Coalition (alkaline hydrolysis or green cremation)
- BC Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support
- Green Burial BC, Nicola Finch
- NORBC, Natural Organic Reduction BC
- Patient Pathways
- STOP Unwanted Mail after Death
- Death Conversation Game, by Angela Fama
- Grief Landscapes
- Conversation Project
- 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
- MADD Metro Vancouver (Mother’s Against Drunk Driving)
- Palliative Support Centre
- Pay What You Can Peer Support
- Refuge in Grief: grief support that doesn’t suck
- Vancouver Coastal Health
- Vancouver Hospice Society
- Be Ceremonial, by Megan Sheldon
- Death Doula Network International
- EndWell, Tracy Chalmers
- In Wholeness, Tricia Keith
- Life Celebrant BC, Kim Evans
- Life Threads, Abegael Fisher-Lang
- Paula Skalnek
- Red Cedar Tree of Life, Michelle Kotowski
- Sacred Journey Pathways, Holly Mitton
- Seeking Ceremony, Megan Sheldon
- Simply Ceremony, Lisa Hartley
- Vancouver End of Life Doula, Amy Wood
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
- Ageing in Place Consultant, Corina Stainsby, Heart And Home
- Financial Advisor, The Lifestyle Protector, Lynn Williams
- Mortgage Broker, The Mortgage Group, Julie Isaac
- Professional Organizer & Estate Clearing Services, Heather Knittel, Good Riddance Professional Organizing Solutions
- Realtor, Aislynn Radley, Acrosstown Realty
- Realtor, Lee Caldwell
- Wills & Estate Planning Lawyer, Mark Braeder, Webster, Hudson & Coombe LLP
- “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
- “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
- “Bird is Dead” by Tiny Fisscher
- “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)
- Children and Youth Grief Network
- The Life of Death (watch on youtube)
- Australian Story