END OF LIFE PLANNING AND SUPPORT
RESOURCES
Advance Care Planning BC
Advance care planning is the process of thinking about and writing down your wishes or instructions for present or future health care treatment in the event you become incapable of deciding for yourself. The Ministry of Health encourages all capable adults to do advance care planning.
Advocacy
- AquamationBC Coalition (alkaline hydrolysis or green cremation)
- BC Centre for Elder Advocacy and Support
- Green Burial BC, Nicola Finch
- Natural Organic Reduction BC
- Patient Pathways
- STOP Unwanted Mail after Death
Associations
Support Groups
- Andrea Warnick Consulting, supporting grieving children, youth and adults
- BC Bereavement Help Line
- Bereavement Walking Program, Vancouver Hospice Society
- Bridge C-14, Grief Support Groups for MAiD (Medical Assistance in Dying) Families
- Canadian Virtual Hospice
- Centre for Loss & Life Transition with Dr. Alan Wolfelt
- Children and Youth Grief Network
- Children’s Grief Foundation of Canada
- Creative Climate Counselling
- Living Through Loss Counselling Society of BC
- Lower Mainland Grief Recovery Society
- Lumara Society – Home of Camp Kerry
- MADD Metro Vancouver (Mother’s Against Drunk Driving)
- Palliative Support Centre
- Pay What You Can Peer Support
- Refuge in Grief: grief support that doesn’t suck
- Vancouver Coastal Health
- Vancouver Hospice Society
Funeral Cost Supplement
A supplement may be provided to pay necessary funeral costs of any person who dies in BC if the estate of the deceased person or any responsible person has no immediate resources to meet these costs.
Understanding Your Choice at End of Life
From Patient Pathways: Due to a chronic lack of funding, the healthcare system is overburdened, and as a result, our choice has largely been taken away. There are not enough hospices and palliative care units. For those who want to die at home, there simply is not enough staff and not enough resources.