Planning
These resources can help you start the conversation and follow through with making end of life plans so you are free to fully embrace living.
Planning considerations and checklists
Speak Sooner: A patient's guide to having conversations with health care providers.
Medical Decision Making: VT Ethics Network's guide for How to Get Started
The Conversation Project: Helps start the conversation about the end of life including how to choose a proxy.
Advance Care Planning: Tips, worksheets and guidance for decisions that need to be made before getting ill or incapacitated.
Advance Directive and DNR
Dementia Advanced Directive: from the Dartmouth Dementia Directive program
Compassion and Choices: Compassion & Choices improves care, expands options and empowers everyone to chart their end-of-life journey.
Other Possibilities to Consider
VSED Consider information on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking
Patient Choices Vermont is dedicated to empowering and educating Vermonters on end of life decisions including Medical Aid in Dying Act 39
Death with Dignity: The Death with Dignity National Center's mission is to promote Death with Dignity laws based on the model Oregon Death with Dignity Act, both to provide an option for dying individuals and to stimulate nationwide improvements in end-of-life care.
Final Exit Network has a mission to educate qualified individuals in practical, peaceful ways to end their lives, offer a compassionate bedside presence and defend their right to choose.
Organ Donation: VT Ethics Network's guidance on organ donation.