When looking at the various documents required for this step, the approach becomes much easier to understand when we divide them up into three categories:
Living, Ethical, and Personal.

The Living Will is for everything concrete, including assigning your assets, your medical proxy, and DNR.

The Ethical Will is for those intangibles that don’t fit into the Living Will, things like leaving your letters and books in the safe keeping of a specific loved one, leaving recordings or messages for others to cherish, and the heart to heart matters.

Lastly, the Personal Will, a step so many people miss out on. This part focuses on creature comforts. When under the weather, what do you enjoy around you? Do you want music played or audio books; do you enjoy aromatherapy or light massage; what are your favorite past times?
Here we create space for your ideal environment.

End of Life planning isn’t all medical plans and assigning ownership to material things. These two aspects, the Legacy & the Spiritual, I think are some of the most important considerations to make space for in your End of Life planning.

Legacy building is as beautiful as it is intangible. Maybe your legacy is all of the recipes you’ve collected over the years, put together into a book to pass down generations old family recipes. Maybe your legacy is stories and oral tradition, which we can digitize and have prepared for your loved ones to keep forever (as a video editor and audio engineer, I am honored to be able to offer this service).

Whatever your faith, practice, or belief, we can discuss how best to honor you in the sacred space of passing. We’ll look at pre, during, and after the passing process, covering what preparations you want made, what environment you want to be held in, and how you want to be honored afterwards.

Whether discussing long term care or short term needs, I can help you identify what is required to care for you & yours, and then collate what we identify together into a Personal Care Booklet. Your own toolkit for caretaking. This can include everything from medication lists & frequency of dosing, a list of care providers to call for specific needs, favorite foods, enjoyable pursuits and crafts to engage in while spending a lot of time less mobile, and so much more beyond that.

This helps give structure to the questions of “what to do”, and “how to do it”, so everything is easy to follow.

Some of the worst experiences for families at End of Life is the concern and guilt from questioning if they did enough, or made choices true to their person’s wishes. Having a personalized system of care can help alleviate this stress, to let us focus on what really matters: time with loved ones.