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Maine
Advance Directive – select Maine to download a blank form
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
American Clinicians Academy on Medical Aid in Dying (ACAMAID)
ACAMAID 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)
Death Over Dinner (creative, interactive way to converse about death and dying)
End Well Project (human-centered innovation for the end of life experience)
Find-a-Grave (cemetery history project)
Funeral Consumers Alliance (consumer advocacy and funeral industry monitoring)
How to Die in Oregon (exceptional documentary on Oregon’s pioneering Death with Dignity Act)
The Order of the Good Death (death-positive resources because inquiring minds want to know)
Recompose (creating a cutting edge alternative to conventional burial and cremation)