Some components contained in your Sunset Bridge Planner:

-Medical Power of Attorney/Healthcare Proxy/Healthcare Agent

-Living Will

-DNR Orders

-POLST Forms

-Donor Registry

-Survivor Checklist

-Passwords

-Options for simple, detailed, or custom advance directive forms are available

The old saying, “you don’t know what you don’t know” often applies with end-of-life planning. We will review the Sunset Bridge EOL (End-of-Life) Checklist to clarify, omit, or answer questions as they arise.

Death is a subject that will surely conjure up fears, denial, and sometimes hostility. We can help to educate and ease the uncertainty. Tools and games can be used to break the ice while discussing that elephant in the room.

Discussion and education on MAID (Medical Aid in Dying) and VSED (Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking)

Identify, create, and communicate a plan describing your wishes for “A Good Death” A plan outlining your requests empowers you to create an environment that will bring peace and comfort during your transition. A well written plan will contain details for ritual, traditions, symptom management, and desired interaction with others.

-Your story matters and deserves to be heard.

-Companionship with active listening and no judgement.

-Deep discussions on accomplishments, failures, achievements, and regrets.

Unique projects to gift your loved ones. Here are just a few examples.

-Ethical Will

-Cookbook or Recipe Box

-Legacy Letters

-Hand Castings

-Audio or Video Recording

-Painted Stones

-Shadow Box

-Poems

Explore ideas for celebration and final disposition options including but not limited to home funeral, cremation, aquamation, traditional interment, green burial, or body donation.

-Creation of music playlists for Vigil and Celebration of Life events.

-Writing assistance for personal eulogy and/or obituary composition.

-Prepare and maintain vigil setting

-Respite care

-Provide support during imminent death, active dying, and following death

-Day of death support for MAID - Medical Aid in Dying

Includes but not limited to:

-Light meal prep

-Caregiver companionship and respite

-Light tidying

-Organization - Swedish Death Cleaning

-Shopping for groceries and essentials

Includes but not limited to:

-Assistance with pet rehoming

-Gentle massage

-Assistance with hygiene and grooming

-Reading

-Guided imagery / meditation

-Review and assist with tasks on Survivor’s Checklist.

-Follow-up for loved ones left behind.

-Individual short term companionship and support.

-Reorganization of possessions by categorizing (keep, toss, or donate)

-Household chores and light meal prep.

Rituals can be a powerful tool to create harmony, restore balance, and heal grief when your world has been turned upside down.

-Suggestions for private and public mourning rituals.

-Virtual or in-person sessions for developing and performing rituals to begin the healing process.

-Referrals to licensed grief counselors and community-based support groups.

-Recommended reading custom tailored to individual needs.