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Maine
Adult Education Schedule (free; online) Click this link for our currently scheduled, online adult education classes. All have the same content, so choose the one that fits your schedule. You must register to attend.
Advance Directive – select Maine to download a blank form
Die Well Death Education Planning to die well? This resource will help!
Funeral Consumers Alliance of Maine (consumer advocacy and education)
Last Things (home funeral resources)
Maine Death with Dignity Act Fact Sheet
Maine Death with Dignity Act FAQs.
Maine Hospital Association on the Maine Death with Dignity Act
Maine Legislature: Maine Death with Dignity Act bill, amendments, and chaptered law (2019)
Maine Death with Dignity Act (as chaptered)
Maine Veterans: Advanced Directive information
State of Maine “Making Final Arrangements by Authorized Persons” Guide
National
Academy of Aid-in-Dying Medicine
AADM Guide for Patients and Their Supporters
American Nurses Association position statement on medical aid in dying (2019)
Death with Dignity National Center
National Clinicians Conference on Medical Aid in Dying
Other Helpful Resources
Advance Directive Addition (dementia specific), exceptional resource developed by End of Life Choices, New York. Watch the video presentation by Judith Schwartz, Clinical Director, EOLCNY.
Ask a Mortician (everything you ever wanted to know but never had a chance to ask)
The Conversation Project (exceptional resource for “having the conversation”)
The Completed Life Initiative (excellent!)
Death Cafe (because tea, cake, and mortality-friendly conversations are necessary)
The Death Deck and E•O•L Deck (Have fun with some taboo talk)
Death Over Dinner (creative, interactive way to converse about death and dying)
Dignitas (Swiss organization open to non-residents)
End Well Project (human-centered innovation for the end of life experience)
Final Exit Network (Defending the right to choose)
Find-a-Grave (cemetery history project)
Funeral Consumers Alliance (consumer advocacy and funeral industry monitoring)
Funeral Poverty, Victoria J Haneman, University of Richmond Law Review, 2020
Go Wish card deck by Coda Alliance; a great way to start those tougher conversations
How to Die in Oregon (exceptional documentary on Oregon’s pioneering Death with Dignity Act)
Jack Has a Plan (excellent film with a personal view on aid in dying. On PBS and Amazon)
The Order of the Good Death (death-positive resources because inquiring minds want to know)
Pegasos (Swiss organization open to non-residents)
Recompose (creating a cutting edge alternative to conventional burial and cremation)
Take Me Out Feet First (Amazon Prime Series on Aid in Dying)
The VSED Handbook (excellent resource if considering VSED)
More VSED Resources (Thaddeus Pope)