Minnesota Death Collaborative
The Minnesota Death Collaborative (MNDC) is a network that provides an array of resources in the Minnesota region for individuals dealing with grief, dying, disability, palliative and hospice care concerns. Videos, support groups, fact sheets and more are avaiable on this website.
Understanding Military Funeral Honors
Military funeral honors provides a final tribute to eligible veterans and a meaningful ceremony to their families. Military OneSource provides information to help you navigate the process to arrange military funeral honors.
The Dying Patient: Merck Manual Professional Edition
The approach to end-of-life care varies widely throughout the world and is influenced by medical, cultural, social, and legal considerations. The clinician must consider these factors when managing the care of a dying patient.
Dying patients have needs that differ from those of other patients. So that their needs are met, dying patients must first be identified. Before death, patients tend to follow 1 of 3 general trajectories of functional decline:
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A limited period of steadily progressive functional decline (eg, typical of an aggressive cancer)
Fostering Grief Ready Workplaces: A Starter Kit for Mental Health and School Mental Health Leadership
A note from Mental Health Technology:
"We developed this guide with two hopes:
Bereavement: Summary and Related Issues
Medline provides basic information on bereavement, related issues, clinical trials, journal articles, patient handouts and age specific information for children, teenages and older adults. Information also available in multiple languages.
Palliative Care: Summary And Related Issues
MedlinePlus provides basaic information on the definition of palliative care, palliative care related to serious illness, cancer, clinical trials, support groups and other topics. Information is also available in multiple languages.
Palliative care is treatment of the discomfort, symptoms, and stress of serious illness. It provides relief from distressing symptoms including:
Hospice Care: Also Called End-Of-Life Care
Hospice care is end-of-life care. A team of health care professionals and volunteers provides it. They give medical, psychological, and spiritual support. The goal of the care is to help people who are dying have peace, comfort, and dignity. The caregivers try to control pain and other symptoms so a person can remain as alert and comfortable as possible. Hospice programs also provide services to support a patient's family. Usually, a hospice patient is expected to live 6 months or less. Hospice care can take place:
Advance Directives
What kind of medical care would you want if you were too ill or hurt to express your wishes? Advance directives are legal documents that allow you to spell out your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time. They give you a way to tell your wishes to family, friends, and health care professionals and to avoid confusion later on.A living will tells which treatments you want if you are dying or permanently unconscious. You can accept or refuse medical care. You might want to include instructions on:
End Of Life Issues: Death And Dying, Terminal Care
Planning for the end of life can be difficult. But by deciding what end-of-life care best suits your needs when you are healthy, you can help those close to you make the right choices when the time comes. End-of-life planning usually includes making choices about the following:
Death and Dying: Lifespan Development- A Psychological Perspective
We have now reached the end of the lifespan. While it is true that death occurs more commonly at the later stages of age, death can occur at any point in the life cycle. Death is a deeply personal experience evoking many different reactions, emotions, and perceptions. Children and young adults in their prime of life may perceive death differently from adults dealing with chronic illness or the increasing frequency of the death of family and friends. If asked, most people envision their death as quick and peaceful.