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At Huron Shores Hospice we offer transformative Grief Recovery Method sessions, a powerful and evidence-based approach to healing from emotional loss and navigating grief.
Led by trained and certified specialists, our sessions provide a safe and supportive environment for individuals to explore their beliefs about dealing with loss and find solace amidst life's deepest heartbreaks.
Our Grief Recovery Method addresses the loss of a family member or friend. We acknowledge that each grief experience is unique, emphasizing the importance of respecting the individualized nature of every relationship.
To cater to diverse needs and preferences, we offer a range of delivery methods. You can choose from small group sessions, providing a supportive community to navigate grief together, or opt for private one-on-one sessions for a more personalized approach. For added accessibility, we also offer online sessions facilitated by carefully selected and trained specialists.
Unlike conventional approaches, our method stands out by providing practical and actionable steps to address unresolved emotions, regrets, and wishes. Through challenging common myths about grief, we empower individuals to take charge of their healing journey actively.
The Grief Recovery Group is not a ‘drop-in’ support group. The program builds on each previous session, so attendance and commitment for all sessions is essential.
Thanks to the generosity of our donors, we offer the Grief Recovery Method sessions free of charge, ensuring that healing and support are within reach for everyone in our community.
For more information please email grief@huronshoreshospice.ca, call 519-385-5683 or register online.
Delivery Methods:
Small Group
We offer a safe space for you to look at your beliefs and deal with loss. We provide next steps that will lead you to work through unresolved emotions that may be causing you pain. These small groups are led by Grief Recovery Method Specialists®, trained and certified by the Grief Recovery Institute.
One-on-One
If you prefer to work face-to-face with a trained and certified Grief Recovery Method Specialist® rather than in a group setting these sessions are provided. This meeting format utilizes the same materials as the group programs but in a more private setting.
On-line
For those who do not have access to a trained and certified Grief Recovery Method Specialist® in their immediate area, or prefer on-line sessions, this format is extremely effective. These specialists have been carefully selected and specifically trained to offer Grief Recovery Method Support in this setting over a secured network.
To keep each tribute personal and meaningful, we dedicate just one Day of Dignity per calendar date. If the day that’s special to you has already been chosen, we’ll gladly help you find another date that holds significance.
Discover a compassionate and empowering journey towards end-of-life planning at the Huron Shores Hospice.
Our End of Life Planning Workshops offer a safe and supportive space for all individuals to explore and prepare for their final act of living. Led by our caring End of Life Doulas, these free workshops provide essential tools and knowledge, ensuring your wishes are honoured and your loved ones find peace of mind.
Embrace Advance Care Planning, effective decision-making, and the creation of meaningful legacy projects, all while reframing end-of-life discussions as an act of love and empowerment.
Take the first step towards creating a personalized end-of-life plan by joining our workshops today.
Not at all. Some people choose a Day of Dignity to remember a loved one, but others mark their own birthday, a meaningful milestone, or simply choose a day to show they care. Every reason is a good reason.
At Huron Shores Hospice we believe in providing compassionate, dignified, and respectful support to individuals and families facing life-limiting illnesses. Our team of dedicated End of Life Doulas is here to complement existing hospice care by filling the gaps in palliative programs, bringing meaning to the end-of-life, and restoring the sacredness to the dying process.
What is an End of Life Doula? Our doulas are trained through the International End of Life Doula Association (INELDA) and equipped with the necessary skills to offer emotional, spiritual, and physical support to those nearing the end of life. They work alongside our hospice professionals, providing specialized care that focuses on deep engagement, personal exploration, and creating meaningful experiences.
Our Services: At Huron Shores Hospice, our End of Life Doulas offer a range of invaluable services to ensure a comforting and meaningful end-of-life experience. They create safe spaces for open and honest conversations about dying, giving you and your loved ones the opportunity to address your thoughts and emotions openly. Through life-meaning exploration, doulas help uncover your personal values, wisdom, and the significance of your life's journey, leaving a lasting legacy for your family.
Our doulas bring a compassionate and intuitive presence to your bedside, fostering deep connections and providing comfort during this challenging time. They assist in planning personalized last days, ensuring that your environment, rituals, and music align with your desires, promoting peace and tranquility.
With a focus on education, our doulas explain the signs and symptoms of the dying process, helping you and your family understand and navigate the natural progression of death. They also offer grief support, guiding and supporting families in processing their emotions and experiences during the early stages of grief, providing compassionate guidance and rituals tailored to your needs.
Collaborating with our hospice care team, our doulas enhance overall support by providing additional resources, such as deeper conversations, vigil planning, and guided visualizations for relaxation. They facilitate life reviews and legacy projects to honor your life and ensure your wishes are respected during this important time.
Our End of Life Doulas are available to anyone on our referral list. If you or your loved one would benefit from the compassionate support of an End of Life Doula, please contact Cheryl Cottrill at cheryl@huronshoreshospice.ca or call 519.385.5683.
Our doulas are here to guide and support you through this challenging journey, bringing comfort, peace, and meaning to your end-of-life experience.
Your gift covers the full cost of care for one day at Huron Shores Hospice. This includes meals, round-the-clock care, emotional support, and more—all at no cost to the families we serve.
Yes. If you'd prefer to remain anonymous, we’ll absolutely respect that. You can choose to stay anonymous on our website, in the photo album, and on social media, or pick where and what you would like to share.
Huron Shores Hospice is proud to host Death Cafés, a unique and uplifting initiative designed to foster open conversations about dying and death within our community.
With the goal of increasing comfort and understanding surrounding this often-taboo subject, Death Cafés provide a safe and inclusive space for adults to gather, share their thoughts, and engage in empowering discussions. Through this community-driven initiative, Huron Shores Hospice aims to normalize the conversation around dying and death and help people make the most of their finite lives.
While enjoying delicious cake and tea, participants engage in thought-provoking conversations that transcend societal barriers and encourage personal growth.
It is important to note that Death Cafés are not intended as counseling sessions, but rather as opportunities for individuals to enhance their ease and comfort in discussing dying and death.
For more information pleas contact info@huronshoreshospice.ca for further information or join our email distribution list here for upcoming event notifications.
Caregiving can be a rewarding yet challenging experience, often leaving caregivers feeling overwhelmed and isolated. In this workshop, we invite you to explore a powerful tool—a personalized care map—to illuminate the support and connections in your life.
What Is a Care Map?
A Care Map is a simple, diagram of the people involved in providing care to a caregiver and care recipient. It includes family, friends, and health care professionals who may provide assistance or support, however big or small.
Through a simple drawing exercise, you'll gain insight into the connections and relationships that shape your caregiving network.
Why is a Care Map important?
A Care Map is a simple tool to identify the people and services involved in your support network. It also helps you to understand the role(s) those people and services play for you and eachother.
This visual serves as a tool for reflection, fostering a deeper understanding of your role and the support available to you.
We will also share local resources that can help you in your caregiver journey.
After your donation, we’ll reach out to learn more about your chosen day. You’ll be invited to share a message, photo, or story—whatever feels right to you.
Nope. If you don't want to share a photo, that’s completely okay. We’ll offer the chance, but it’s always up to you. Some donors prefer a simple note or to be recognized by name only or not at all.
A prerequisite minimum of 30 hours of palliative training prior to or before completion of orientation is required.
Valid driver’s license with appropriate insurance coverage, and safe driving history for volunteers driving as part of their duties.
Not if you don’t want to. We’ll reach out to ask if you’d like to share a few words, but there's no pressure. A name, a quote, a photo—or even just your chosen date—is more than enough.
Demonstrated capacity to seek direction and feedback from program staff, and exhibit calm, sensitive qualities, particularly in changing situations of stress and/or uncertainty
Past health care training or experience with chronic and/or life-threatening illness is an asset but not a requirement.
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
1. Recent recovery from a major stress or bereavement or issues of unresolved grief.
2. Concurrent major stress or family issue.
3. Desire to impose their own views (religious, personal, medical or psychological) on others, or who have a philosophy, which is not compatible with VON and the concept of Palliative Care.
Ability to demonstrate:
- Respect for privacy and confidentiality
- Mature judgement, dependability, adaptability and trustworthiness.
- Compassion and caring
- Good communication and active listening skills, with a capacity to affirm life (listen to residents who wish to talk about personal life meaning, regrets, fears, legacies)
- Capacity to remain calm in unexpected situations
- Responsibility in referring to program staff for guidance when uncertain and in seeking answers to questions
- Independence and teamwork styles
- Understands the role of a volunteer
- Setting of clear boundaries and understanding of the limits of their role, particularly in maintaining an appropriate relationship with family and other caregivers in the formal and informal network
- Capacity to adhere to VON policies and procedures
- Attendance at training and support group meetings as established by the program
Absolutely! You can choose to sponsor multiple days throughout the year. We’d be honoured to recognize each one.
- Volunteer Application
- Personal interview
- Police records check
- References
- Drivers license, safe vehicle, applicable car and liability insurance and good driver record (for drivers)
Yes. Businesses, teams, and community groups are more than welcome to take part. We’d love to recognize your group’s support.
Oversees the overall financial health of HSH by ensuring the appropriate financial controls and accountabilities exist with respect to finance and areas of material risk.
Provides oversight and guidance of the care of residents of HSH in order to empower individuals to live well during their end of life journey.
Oversees, sets policy, supports development activities including all fundraising events, donor cultivation and recognition.
Provides oversight and direction to all activities for residents and their families as well as community education, outreach and education related to bereavement.
Ensures that processes, procedures and policies are in order for the good governance of HSH in line with bylaws and letters patent.
Oversees and develops policy related to grants. Researches possible grants and executes accordingly.
What are your fears, hopes and beliefs?
Consider what legacy you could leave behind for your loved ones that is personal and will help them stay connected to you after you are gone. How would you like to be remembered? You might write a love letter or the story of your life. Or it could be as simple as getting out old photos and writing on the back who the people are in the picture and a memory attached to that photo.
You want to consider who would look after your finances and property and who would look after decisions regarding your medical care.
Organize all your financials, life insurance and memberships. Don’t forget about your online presence as well. Who is going to delete your Facebook page after you are gone? Or do you want it to remain as a memorial site for family and friends?
Prepare your Power of Attorney for Personal Care and Property. Prepare or update your Will. Talk to your accountant, lawyer and/or financial advisor about estate planning. Make sure your Estate Trustee knows where your legal papers can be located.
Set up a “When I die” box with all your important information in it and make sure your Estate Trustee is aware of where it is located. Remember to include your marriage certificate if you are married, so your spouse can easily find it when applying for Canada Pension Survivor Benefits. You might want to include the names and contact information for the people you would like to be contacted after death, to make it easier for your family and make sure the people you love are aware of your death. You may also want to tackle writing your own obituary or at least a list of things you’d like said.
Think about what relationships may need to be mended and reflect on your bucket list of unfulfilled dreams and wishes for your life.
Think about who you would like to be present, the sights, sounds and smells in your room, photographs or special pictures you would like with you and what music, if any, you’d like to be played during your last moments. Would you like a passage or poem read after your death? What would you like your loved ones to do immediately after you die?
Ask them about their fears, hopes and desires to learn more about how they are feeling about death and dying.
Yes, referrals are made by a health care professional and applications are processed by the South West Local Health Integration Network - Home and Community Care.
Huron Shores Hospice services and community programs are provided at no cost to the individual. To cover operating costs, Huron Shores Hospice holds fundraising events and receives support from our amazing community each year in the form of donations and volunteerism.
Hospice palliative care is not just for the final days or months of life. It’s a holistic approach that includes pain and symptom management, hospice caregiver support, spiritual care, bereavement and much more. While it is commonly used at end-of-life, it by no means indicates the patient will die soon. In fact, hospice services often improve and enrich the quality of a person’s life.
Yes, Huron Shores Hospice offers a lending library full of helpful hospice resources open to the public, community educational events such as Death Cafes and End-of-Life workshops.
No, our programs and services are available to anyone who requires them, regardless of age.
Not at all. The goal of palliative care is to make you comfortable and help you achieve the best possible quality of life. You can have palliative care while you are undergoing treatments that may cure or reverse the effects of your illness. In fact, palliative care can help you cope with aggressive treatments by getting your pain and symptoms under control to help you fight the disease.
Palliative care can be provided at a hospital, a nursing home, an assisted-living facility, or at home. There are a number of ways to find a doctor who specializes in palliative medicine, including asking your personal doctor to refer you to a palliative doctor or asking your local hospital if they have a palliative specialist.
Appropriately prescribed medicine will not hasten death. Your palliative doctor has the expertise to devise a medication plan that makes you comfortable and is safe.
Palliative doctors are concerned about you as a whole person. You are not defined by your illness. They understand that people with serious illnesses can be frightened and unsure of themselves when making medical decisions. They also understand that there is not always one right or wrong answer and that your needs and wishes may change over time. Palliative doctors consider all of this when they help you develop your treatment plan.
Once your donation has been received, you can expect your tax receipt within 2 weeks. Receipts are automatically generated for gifts of $20 or more. Receipts for monthly donors are issued annually. Should you have any questions about your gift, please contact us.
All our online donations come to us through Canada Helps. Once your donation has been processed, you will receive a tax receipt via email directly from Canada Helps. If you have not received your receipt, check your junk mail, or contact Canada Helps directly (toll-free 1-877-755-1595) to ensure you receive your receipt.
Yes. All of your information is kept confidential and protected by Huron Shores Hospice policies and procedures.
Huron Shores Hospice volunteers provide support to people who are at the end-of-life at HSH located in Tiverton Park Manor. The role of the hospice volunteer is determined by the needs of the individual client and their family members. Hospice volunteers also offer support to people who are grieving.
Other volunteer tasks include fundraising and awareness committees, facilitation of events, and social media coordination.
For More Details, go to our Volunteering Information Page.
Anyone 18 years or older can apply to become a Huron Shores Hospice volunteer working with residents. We welcome adults of all ages, ethnic origins or religious backgrounds who possess sensitivity, compassion, good communication skills and a desire to help others.
Volunteer Opportunities are also available for younger individuals with expertise in fundraising and marketing tasks.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, you are required to fill out a volunteer application form and register as a volunteer on our website.
Additionally, if you wish to work directly with residents, you will be required to take training for hospice palliative care and undergo a screening process.
For more information see our Volunteer Information Page.
Because most of our clients are ill and often elderly, we need to ensure that their safety is our number one priority. Rigorous screening measures are required by our governing bodies to ensure clients are never put at risk.
Once accepted into the volunteer training program, each volunteer completes a 36 hour provincially mandated training course endorsed by Hospice Palliative Care Ontario, which is delivered by a richly diverse group of local community professionals. The volunteer training program is designed to cover all aspects of a dying person’s experience so that hospice volunteers can fully empathize and support their clients effectively.
The Volunteer Coordinator will contact successful applicants to let them know the dates of the training, which is usually held a few times during the year.
EXTERNAL RESOURCES
Hospice Palliative Care Ontario
The Palliative Care Ontario website is a provincial association of hospices and palliative care providers, professionals, and volunteers throughout Ontario. This association strives to provide access for everyone in Ontario to quality palliative care by encouraging and helping develop the field of hospices.
Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association
The Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Association is the national voice for Hospice Palliative Care in Canada. This association works towards advancing quality end-of-life care as well as public education and awareness.
South West Hospice Palliative Care Network
The South West Hospice Palliative Care Network provides information and resources about Hospice and Palliative Care Services in the South West Local Health Integration Network.
The Canadian Virtual Hospice provides support and personalized information about palliative and end-of-life care to patients, family members, health care providers, researchers and educators.
Ontario Palliative Care Network
The Ontario Palliative Care Network is a partnership of community stakeholders, health services providers and health systems planners who are developing a coordinated and standardized approach for delivering hospice palliative care services in Ontario.
Palliative Care Toolkit for Indigenous Communities
The Palliative Care Toolkit for Indigenous Communities is a website with resources and reference material for First Nations, Metis, and Inuit families and communities. This resource is used to help support people with cancer who have palliative care needs.
This website provides different News, Views, and Inspiration about palliative care from around the world.
This website is a resource for people of different cultural backgrounds to honour their culture, spirituality, and traditions. Individuals can share their stories of wisdom about living with serious illness, end of life and grief support.
National Hospice Palliative Care Organization
The National Hospice Palliative Care Organization is the leading organization representing hospice and palliative care providers in the United States and offers resources for palliative and hospice care professionals, as well as individuals and families dealing with a life limiting illness.
The VON Grey Bruce is part of Canada’s only, national, non-for-profit, charitable home and community care organization. This organization provides in-home care from nurses, therapists, and other health care providers.
End-of-Life Care in Grey Bruce (southwesthealthline.ca)
The End-of-Life Care in Grey Bruce website has various resources listed that cover a broad range of local services available including Hospice Palliative Care, Care Directives, Bereavement, and programs for Widows and Widowers.
The Way Forward website is an initiative that resulted from the Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada’s Blueprint for 2010-2020, which identified as a priority that all Canadians should have access to high-quality hospice palliative and end-of-life care. This initiative is a roadmap for an integrated approach to care – helping make changes across the country to ensure we are living well until death.
The End of Life Care website provides links and resources about end-of-life care, including palliative care and medical assistance in dying in Canada.
Grief Recovery Method Institute
The Grief Recovery Method Institute offers different programs to help individuals move forward with their life after significant loss. This is the program that Huron Shores Hospice trained volunteers deliver for grief support.
Kids Grief is a free online resource that helps parents support their children when someone in their life is dying or has died.
Talking with Children About the Cycle of Life and Death - Ages 4+
This free kid kit on dying, death and grief if for any grownup (parent, grandparent, auntie, uncle, friend, etc.) who wants to help their child understand the cycle of life and death. Huron Shores Hospice has the recommended books in this kit for loan to any family who would like to explore this kit further. Please contact us at grief@huronshoreshospice.ca for lending details.
Talking with Children About Terminal Illness and Death - Ages 4+
This free kid kit on dying, death and grief is for any grownup (parent, grandparent, auntie, uncle, friend, etc.) who wants to help their child undersand terminal illness, death and grief. Huron Shores Hospice has the recommended books in this kit for loan to any family who would like to explore this kit further. Please contact us at grief@huronshoreshospice.ca for lending details.
The Bereaved Families of Ontario offers a free service to receive help, support and discuss your experiences and learn about grief with others who have been there. This organization offers a range of individual and group support groups in both open and closed settings.
Ultimate Guide to Grieving Support Resources
This website offers support for various types of situations and provides inspirational quotes for viewers to read.
The MyGrief.ca website is an online resource for those dealing with grief. It provides confidential services that you can participate in from your own home.
Caregiver Support Modules (HPCO)
The Caregiver Support Modules website helps you find the support you need, exactly when you need it. This website provides different resources to assist you regardless of the unique circumstances of your situation.
A Guide to Death Care in Ontario
The Guide to Death Care in Ontario is a resource that informs consumers of their rights and responsibilities when planning funerals, burials, transfer services, or cremation.
The Caring Bridge organization helps individuals keep in touch with family and friends and provide updates about their personal medical journey. It is a safe place where patients and caregivers can turn to after diagnosis, illness, injury, premature birth or any health crisis.
The Post Hope website provides users the tools to create user-friendly, ad free, customizable websites to receive donations, post status updates, photos, and any other relevant information while also allowing them to share updates through email, Facebook, Twitter and other popular social platforms.
As Illness Progresses (from Visiting Nurses of NY)
The Visiting Illness Nurses of NY is the largest non-for-profit home and community based health care organization in the United States. They have designed programs for people to improve their quality of life and reduce the number and length of hospitalizations.
The Ontario Caregiver Organization
(including information about The Ontario Caregiver Helpline for 24/7 support at 1 833-416-2273)
The Ontario Caregiver Organization exists to support Ontario’s 3.3 million caregivers. This resource is to support caregivers by being their one point of access to information, so they have what they need to be successful in their role.
This US based website is a forum for disclosure, recent news, research, and freethinking commentary. Their objective is to create an online community of interdisciplinary providers interested in geriatrics or palliative care, to provide an open forum for the exchange or ideas and disruptive commentary that changes clinical practice and health care policy and to change the world.
Quality End-of-Life Care Coalition of Canada
The CHPCA serves as the Secretariat for the Quality End-of-life Care Coalition of Canada, a group of 35 national organizations dedicated to improving end-of-life care for all Canadians.
Benefits for Parents of Critically Ill Children
The Benefits for Parents of Critically Ill Children will provide parents with information on various benefit options by the Canadian Government for ill children.
The Compassionate Care Benefits provides people with information on various benefit options by the Canadian Government they may be eligible to receive financial assistance when caring for someone who is critically ill.
Odonata Care is a hands on Guide to Caring for the Hospice Patient. The Care Plan: A Path to Comfort for the Hospice Patient booklet has revolutionized the hospice experience by improving the standard of care.
The Speak up Ontario campaign is an initiative of Hospice Palliative Care Ontario to improve awareness of Health Care Consent and Advance Care Planning in the Province of Ontario. This website focuses on providing information, tools, and resources specific to the Ontario legal context.
The International End of Life Doula Association is a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing deeper meaning and greater comfort to dying people and loved ones in the last days of life. Huron Shores Hospice has four INELDA trained doulas available to assist potential residents.
The Conversation Project is a U.S. based public engagement initiative with a goal that is both simple and transformative: to have every person’s wishes for end-of-life care expressed and respected. Please be mindful that Advanced Care Planning documents are different in Ontario.
The Prepare for Your Care organization out of California grew out of a desire to help make medical decision making easier for people and caregivers. It is the result of ongoing research, collaboration, and generous funding. Please be mindful that Advanced Care Planning documents are different in Ontario.
The Best Endings website is a resource to help and support individuals when making personal and medical decisions.
The Organ Donation Ontario is a resource to find information on donating individuals organs after death.
The Legacy Center encourages individuals and organizations to identify and communicate the core values and experiences that have given their lives meaning. The organization provides various services that inform, support and guide individuals through presentations and seminars, coaching and training for individuals and organizations, personal memoirs and life story writing, etc.
The StoryCorps is a platform that focuses on collecting, sharing, and preserving people’s stories; high-quality organizational management; and the care and support of an extraordinary work environment where respect and dignity are paramount.
The StoryWorth website is a platform that asks individuals questions weekly that families may not have thought to ask. The individual then replies with a story that is shared with the family each week. At the end of the year all the stories are bound into a beautiful keepsake book.
The Megilla website is a platform that records videos of individuals sharing a story. This site allows for individuals to record stories and then have these stories forever.
The Willow End-of-Life Planning is a resource where individuals can communicate their priorities and wishes about their health and person care, and your legacy and after-death care planning as well as how you’ll remember it. This service helps reduce anxiety, regret, and conflict. Their hope is to consciously contemplate and connect with others around the reality of your morality to change how people feel about dying.
The Love Your Life to Death website provides information about Yvonne a lady who is working towards changing the conversation around death. On this website you can find her Books, Programs, Blogs, Events, and resources. Each book ordered provides Huron Shores Hospice with a small donation. Just mention Huron Shores Hospice when you order.
The Groundswell Project is a U.S. organization that develops evidence based programs with health organizations, researchers, local government and communities to activate better end of life experiences by empowering community members and increasing knowledge and accessibility to end of life support, services, and resources.
Ontario Funeral Service Association
The Ontario Funeral Service Association is the leader in advocacy and ethical business advancement for the independent and family owned funeral homes in Ontario, providing Members with professional development, support, resources and peer networks.
Bereavement Authority of Ontario
The Bereavement Authority of Ontario administers provisions of the Funeral, Burial and Cremation Services Act 2002 and regulates and supports licensed funeral establishments, cemetery operations, transfer service operators, funeral directors, funeral preplanners, transfer service sales representatives, cemetery sales representatives and cremation sales representatives across Ontario.
Deleting Social Media Accounts
The links below are to special request the removal of an individual who is deceased or medically incapacitated.
The Death Café website assists viewers in finding a Death Café near to them, a guide on how to host your own death café and various resources on how to have “the conversation.”
Ted Talks:
I See Dead People: Dreams and Visions of the Dying | Dr. Christopher Kerr | TEDxBuffalo
This Ted Talk is by Dr. Christopher Kerr where he speaks about near universal experiences he witnesses that often provide comfort and meaning as well as insight into the life led and death anticipated.
What really matters at the end of life | BJ Miller
This Ted Talk is by BJ Miller who is a palliative care physician who thinks deeply about how to create a dignified, graceful end of life for his patients. This moving talk asks big questions about how we think about death and honor life.
Games:
The Dying to Talk is an online card game that helps people begin the conversation around death and dying.
The Hello game is a conversation game that is an easy, non-threatening way to start a conversation with your family and friends about what matters most to you.
The Death Deck game is a card game you can purchase online and then play with friends and family to have a fun and memorable night of lively conversations with friends and family.
Books:
Talking About Death Won’t Kill You by Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller ISBN: 978-1-77041-406-8
The book Talking About Death Won’t Kill You by Dr. Kathy Kortes-Miller is the essential handbook to help Canadians navigate personal and medical decisions for the best quality of life for the end of our lives. Huron Shores Hospice provides this book to all our Comfort Care Volunteers as a resource guide.
A Beginner’s Guide to the End by BJ Miller, MD and Shoshana Berger ISBN: 978-1-5011-5716-5
The book A Beginner’s Guide to the End by BJ Miller is a guide that helps you as well as your friends and family through the unfamiliar to-do lists and the emotional and medical choices that often overwhelm us. Again this is U.S. based so please be mindful about the differences in document requirements in Ontario.
Love Your Life To Death by Yvonne Heath ISBN: 978-0-9947896-0-0
The book Love Your Life to Death by Yvonne Heath is a book to help give people a new perspective on life and death. Through heartfelt stories of those who have been deeply impacted by loss and found happiness again, and interviews of professionals who deal with grief, death and dying, you will gain her insightful experiences. Huron Shores Hospice receives a donation from Yvonne for every book ordered that mentions our organization.
Dying to know – Bringing death to life ISBN: 978-1-74066-553-7
The Dying to Know – Bringing Death to Life by Andrew Anastasios is a book that covers subjects such as: planning a personalized funeral, ways to help people who are terminally ill, making an emotional will, organ donation, creating online memorials, opening the conversation with children, things to do before you die, and other topics.
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande ISBN: 9780805095159
This New York Times bestselling book Being Mortal by Atul Gawande complicates, examines, in riveting accounts of medical failure and triumph, how success is achieved in this complex and risk filled profession. In the book Gawande addresses his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal for patients and families. Gawande offers examples of freer, more socially fulfilling models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of hospice care to demonstrate that a person’s last weeks or months may be rich and dignified.
Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Jenkinson, Stephen, Shaw, Dr. Martin ISBN: 9781583949733
The Die Wise: A Manifesto for Sanity and Soul by Stephen Jenkinson is a book that places death at the center of the page and asks us to behold it in all its painful beauty. Die Wise teaches the skills of dying, skills that have to be learned in the course of living deeply and well. Die Wise is for those who will fail to live forever.