About.com Death and Dying Home Page
This site has information on caregiving, advance directives, hospice, funerals, and grieving.

Aging with Dignity
Has the Five Wishes document that helps you let others know how you want to be treated if you are ill and unable to speak for yourself.

American Hospice Foundation

Beliefnet
Articles, columns, message boards, and question-and-answer on end-of-life issues.

Center for Practical Ethics (formerly Midwest Bioethics Center)
The Center for Practical Bioethics raises and responds to ethical issues in health and healthcare. The Center helps patients and families, healthcare professionals, policymakers, and corporate leaders develop reasoned, real-world responses to complex ethical issues.

Funeral Consumers Alliance
Offers information on end-of-life issues and funeral arrangements. An end-of-life planning kit is available at www.funerals.org/bookstore/index.htm.

Hospice Net
Information for individuals and families who face life-threatening illness.

• A Dying Person's Guide to Dying:  This page gives advice from a physician who is dying of cancer.
• Frequently Asked Questions About Hospice
• Helping Yourself Live When You Are Dying:  This brochure helps individuals with terminal illness handle their situation.
• How to Relieve Pain Without Medication
• Medicare Hospice Benefits
• Pain Control: Dispelling the Myths
• What Questions Should I Ask About Hospice Care?

Hospice Foundation of America
Information and brochures relating to hospice, including services, payment, volunteers, and impacts on the military family.  They also have a guidebook to telling your life story.

Last Acts
This organization seeks to improve care and caring near the end of life. Their website has information on palliative care and end-of-life issues.  They also have a bookstore where you can purchase these books:  Handbook for Mortals (comprehensive guide to end-of-life care), A Good Death: Challenges, Choices and Care Options (easy-to-use guide to situations that are faced when people are approaching death), Dying Well

Let the Choice Be Mine
This book helps a person prepare for his/her funeral.

National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO)
Has information about Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) orders and advance directives.  They also have a booklet entitled About Dying that discusses death and typical responses to the death of a loved one.

National Hospice Foundation (NHF)

Palliative Care Council of South Australia
This organization offers guidelines on multicultural palliative care.

Partnership for Caring (PFC)
Information on end-of-life issues, including advance directives and family issues.

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