Planning

These resources can help you start the conversation and follow through with making end of life plans so you are free to fully embrace living.

Planning considerations and checklists

Medical Decision Making - VT Ethics Network's guide for How to Get Started

The Conversation Project:
Helps start the conversation about the end of life including how to choose a proxy.

Advance Care Planning:
Tips, worksheets and guidance for decisions that need to be made before getting ill or incapacitated.

Good End of Life:
A super simple site offering free worksheets to work on advanced care planning (or advanced directives).

Advance Directive and DNR

Vermont Advance Directives Forms

Five Wishes Form

Dementia Advanced Directive from the Dartmouth Dementia Directive program

Compassion and Choices Compassion & Choices improves care, expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.

DNR/COLST forms

MyDNRWish.Com A VT based company that has DNR Kits that include door stickers and pouches to safely hold DNR Forms and attach them to your door.

Other Possibilities to Consider

VSED Consider information on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking

Patient Choices Vermont is dedicated to empowering and educating Vermonters on end of life decisions including Medical Aid in Dying Act 39

Death with Dignity: The Death with Dignity National Center's mission is to promote Death with Dignity laws based on the model Oregon Death with Dignity Act, both to provide an option for dying individuals and to stimulate nationwide improvements in end-of-life care.

Final Exit Network has a mission to educate qualified individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives, offer a compassionate bedside presence and defend their right to choose.

Organ Donation: VT Ethics Network's guidance on organ donation.

A planning worksheet to reduce work for your next-of-kin from Zen Caregiving