Recommended Links
for Transition Guides
abcd-caring.org - Americans for Better Care of the Dying (ABCD) aims to improve end-of-life care by learning which social and political changes will lead to enduring, efficient, and effective programs. We work with the public, clinicians, policymakers, and other end-of-life organizations to make change happen.
acu-cell.com/suicide.html - A Biblical Perspective of Suicide, Physician-assisted Suicide, and Euthanasia
after-death.com - dedicated to After-Death Communication (ADC) experiences and bereavement support for those grieving the death of a loved one.
Altered States: Scientists examine the near death experience by Lee Graves - article in The University of Virgina Archives Magazine
Caregivers Bookstore - caregiving, hospice, death & dying, suicide, grief, poems, prayers
Caregivers Resources - caregivers, death & Dying, final arrangements, grief and Healing, hospice, pet loss, seniors, suicide, memorials, poems, prayers, cremation and funerals
Death & Dying Bookstore - books for seekers of high consciousness
Death & Dying Resources - links for seekers of higher consciousness
Last Wishes & Final Arrangements - Personal Fact Sheet | Simple Will | Living Trust | Pour Over Will | Advance Health Care Directive | Living Will | Health Care (Durable) Power of Attorney | Power of Attorney | Organ Donation | Funeral Home Arrangements | Treatment of the Body | Memorial Services | Notification | Additional Information | Links
Meditation, Chakras, Kundalini – lessons for spiritual seekers in quieting the mind and awakening higher consciousness
Memorial Poems - suggested or written by site visitors
Near Death Experiences - Diane's and others
Reincarnation and Karma - for those who want to know more (Spiritual Lessons from Diane Goble)
Seekers Bookstore - books for those interested in the evolution of consciousness
Seekers Resources - links for those interested in the evolution of consciousness
BridgetoDreams.org - Hospice Care & Guided Meditation/Spiritual Growth & Healing - resources for dying
capc.org - Center to Advance Palliative Care - a national initiative supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, with direction and technical assistance provided by the Mount Sinai School of Medicine (NY). CAPC provides health care professionals with the tools and training necessary to start and sustain successful palliative care programs
Center for Loss and Life Transition - We publish books, articles and other resources to help people who are grieving. We are also an educational and training center for bereavement caregivers. If you are grieving or want to help others in grief, we invite you to explore our website.
Code Blue: A New Beginning by Mark Block - this is a good article to read in case you are with a person in a coma to show how a Transition Guide could help talk a person through their confusion by realizing that a person in a coma is still aware on some level
CompassionandChoices.org - improving care and expanding options at the end of life: fighting for pain care, defending legal aid-in-dying, helping patients and families, giving to compassion, educating the public and professions. Organization recently merged with End-of-Life Choices (originally The Hemlock Society). Goal is to insure choice at the end of life.
Death, Customs and Beliefs Across Different Religions
The End in Two Acts - (Los Angeles Times article) Both men were dying. One took advantage of Oregon's Death With Dignity Act. The other, unfortunately, lives in California by Lauren Kessler
Ethics in America: Three Farewells: Medicine & the End of Life - (video) This program looks at the difficult choices a loving family makes as they confront the end of life. When a perfect pregnancy ends in unforeseen complications, and the newborn suffers very severe brain injury, how should the parents decide what is best for their baby? When, a few years later, the baby’s grandmother descends into dementia from Alzheimer’s, should her earlier wish to forego all medical treatment be honored, even though she may no longer understand-- or agree-- with the statements she made when she was competent? Still later, another family member receives a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. If she is terminally ill, should she be able to avail herself of medications to aid her in dying? (one of a series for middle school, high school and adult learners)
Feline Transition Guide - cat in nursing home predicts resident's deaths
GoodEndings.net - caring for the dying resident
Growth House - Guide to Death, Dying, Grief, Bereavement and End of Life Resources
HospicePatients.org -Signs and Symptoms of Approaching Death - from Hospice Patients Alliance
How to be with those who are dying - Labyrinth Reading Society
iands.org - The International Association of Near Death Studies - the first organization in the world devoted exclusively to the study of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and Near-Death-Like experiences. Founded in 1978, it has become the premier NDE resource for research, education and support. Based on scientific and scholarly research roots, IANDS is the most trusted source for researchers, experiencers, professional care providers, clergy and seekers of greater meaning.
Innovations in End of Life Care:Palliative Practices/Tools
Life in the World Unseen: Beyond this life - the words of Monsignor Robert Hugh Benson transcribed by Medium Anthoy Borgia (circa 1920)
MISS Foundation - volunteer based organization committed to providing crisis support and long term aid to families after the death of a child from any cause. MISS also participates in legislative and advocacy issues, community engagement and volunteerism, and culturally competent, multidisciplinary, education opportunities.
My stroke of insight - Jill Bolte Taylor, a neuroanatomist, studies her brain as she experiences a massive stroke and her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding. As her left brain shuts down, her right brain expands and she has an experience of enlightenment. This is a powerful story about how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.
nderf.org – largest NDE website in the world with over 1000 accounts
near-death.com - near death experiences and the afterlife
noetic.org - The Institute of Noetic Sciences – advancing the science of consciousness and human experience to serve individual and collective transformation
notdeadyet.org - people with disabilities oppose legalized assisted suicide and euthanasia
The Alternative Directory and Information Resource
pbs.org/ - On Our Own Terms: Bill Moyers PBS series on dying
Prayers and Blessings - Native American, Buddhist, Catholic, other religions
Planning Ahead - article by Diane Goble
Sacred Art of Living Center - Sacred Art of Living is an education and retreat center with programs which
encourage people to trust and deepen their spiritual experience and to challenge and transform life's priorities. The Anamcara Project, Eneagram Studies, Sacred Art of Living and Dying ProgramsA Second Chance at Life - segment from The Early Show with Mike and Juliet (Fox), interview with Dr. Jeffrey Long (NDE researcher) and two NDErs (July 2007)
The Sedona Method - this course or book would be helpful to Transition Guides with no formal training in helping people let go of negative emotions, bad memories, guilt, hate, victim mentality, anger... it will be helpful to incorporate these techniques when writing guided imagery scripts for the life review, gratitude and forgiveness work, disidentification with the physical world, and for the Guidebook
Directory, articles and references to thousands of other Web Sites on self improvement, personal and spiritual growth, and self-help
Society-Links.com - society directory
Rev. Juliet Nightingale — a multiple NDEr, is the host of this ground-breaking programme, Toward The Light, focusing primarily on Near-Death and similar Spiritually Transformative Experiences. She features special guests who are both experiencers and researchers in the realm of NDEs; and there are call-in opportunities so people can ask questions.
TheTwilightBrigade.com – Compassion in Action – Dannion Brinkley’s work with dying soldiers in VA hospitals
Yoga of Dying - deepen your understanding and acceptance of the art of dying
YouDeparted.com allows you to securely store all the details of your life, estate, and living will in an electronic safe deposit box. If something unexpected happens to you, loved ones may unlock your account and retrieve private information you left for them.
The Music for Healing and Transition Program - a National Education Certification Program preparing musicians to provide live, therapeutic music at the bedside of the ill and dying to facilitate and promote healing or assist in the life/death transition
Music-Thanatology Association.com - Music-thanatology is a field whose practitioners provide musical comfort, using harp and voice at the bedside of patients near the end of life
Near-Death Experience Music - Gilles Bedard's NDE and music research - Gilles and other NDE musicians have recreated the sounds they heard during their near death experiences electronically for people to listen to as they practice conscious dying and as they are consciously dying into the Light. Experiment with his "list of music that approaches the sound of the near-death experience" to familiarize yourself with the effects so you can make appropriate suggestions to students/clients/patients/loved ones you teach. You'll find many of his suggestions in the list of albums in the eStore that I've found to be relative to conscious dying into the Light. Gilles also offers workshops on using music for the dying that you may find of interest in your work.
The heavens call to you and circle around you displaying to you their eternal splendors. - Dante
- Forgiveness Video - music and words
- Template for Transformation - Author Anodea Judith describes humanity's shift from the love of power to the power of love as a new organizing principle, combining personal and collective transformation using the map of the chakra system.
- Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight - Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. She watched as her brain functions shut down one by one: motion, speech, memory, self-awareness ...
- You Can Heal Your Life - the movie of Louise L. Hay's book