Resources

• Advance Care Planning: Guidance for Proxies (American Medical Association)
• Advance Care Planning: Preferences for Care at the End of Life (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• Advance Directives (Cleveland Clinic)
• Advance Directives
• Advance Directives for Medical Care (Cleveland Clinic)
• Advance Directives Found Key to Reducing Stress for Families of Hospitalized Patients at the End of Life (National Institute of Nursing Research)
• Advance Directives: Issues to Consider as You Prepare, Communicate Your Wishes (Cleveland Clinic)
• Advance Directives: Living Wills and Health Care Powers of Attorney (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists)
• Advance Directives: The Documents (Cleveland Clinic)
• Advanced Cancer: Living Each Day (National Cancer Institute)
• Advanced Cancer: Living Each Day (Cancer Information Service, NCI, NIH, HHS)
• Advanced Cancer: Living Each Day (National Cancer Institute)
• Americans for Better Care of the Dying
• Autopsy: Life's Final Chapter (American Medical Association)
• Body Donation (Living Bank)
• Cancer: Palliative Care (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• Child Fatalities Fact Sheet (National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information, NCCAN, ACYF, ACF, HHS)
• Cigarette Smoking-Related Mortality (Office on Smoking and Health, NCCDPHP, CDC, HHS)
• Community Resources (AARP)
• Cuidados paliativos
• Data on Drug Related Deaths in 34 Metro Areas to Be Released by Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) (Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration)
• Death And Dying (National Women's Health Information Center)
• Death and Dying (Medline Plus)
• Death and Dying (Ambulatory Pediatric Association)
• Death and Dying (National Institutes of Health)
• Death and Dying: Making Health Care Choices (Merck & Co., Inc.)
• Death of an Adult Child (Compassionate Friends, The)
• Decisions About End-of-Life Care (American Medical Association)
• Do Living Wills Affect the Setting Where People Die in the United States? (American College of Physicians)
• Dying Person's Guide to Dying (American College of Physicians)
• Earlier Recognition of a Terminally Ill Child Leads to Stronger Emphasis on Easing Suffering (American Medical Association)
• End of Life Choices - CPR and DNR (Family Caregiver Alliance)
• End of Life Choices - Feeding Tubes and Ventilators (Family Caregiver Alliance)
• End-of-Life Care Discussions Should Be Initiated Earlier (American Medical Association)
• End-of-Life Care: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) (American Academy of Family Physicians)
• End-of-Life Care: Questions and Answers
• End-of-Life Decision-Making (Family Caregiver Alliance)
• Ethics and Legal Issues in Palliative Care (Beth Israel Medical Center, Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care)
• FASTATS: Leading Causes of Death (National Center for Health Statistics)
• Final Details (AARP)
• Finances (AARP)
• Funeral Arrangements and Memorial Services (AARP)
• Funerals: A Consumer Guide (Federal Trade Commission)
• Getting Legal Help (AARP)
• Glossary (Beth Israel Medical Center, Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care)
• Helping Younger People Cope with Death and Funerals (American College of Physicians)
• How to Help During the Final Weeks of Life (American College of Physicians)
• Interacting with a Terminally Ill Loved One (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
• Leading Causes of Death, Females United States, 2001 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office of Women's Health)
• Leading Causes of Death: Males - United States, 2001 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
• Metastatic Cancer: Questions and Answers
• National Institute of Mental Health
• New AHRQ Evidence Report Finds Autopsies Help to Uncover Medical Diagnostic Discrepancies (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality)
• NINR Focus: End of Life (National Institute of Nursing Research)
• Parents Who Are Now Childless (Compassionate Friends, The)
• Partnership for Caring (Last Acts Partnership)
• Planning for Incapacity: Legal Issues of Caregiving (Cleveland Clinic)
• Stillbirth, Miscarriage, and Infant Death (Compassionate Friends, The)
• Suggestions for Medical Personnel… When A Child Dies (Compassionate Friends, The)
• Talking about Your Choices (Last Acts Partnership)
• Understanding Grief: When a Grandchild Dies (Compassionate Friends, The)
• Understanding Life Support Measures (Cleveland Clinic)
• What Are the Odds of Dying? (National Safety Council)
• What to Do Before and After the Moment of Death (American College of Physicians)
• What to Do When a Beneficiary Dies (Social Security Administration)
• When Somebody Dies (Nemours Foundation)
• Where to Write for Vital Records (National Center for Health Statistics)
• Women and End-of-Life Decisions (Last Acts Partnership) - Links to PDF File