Aging with Dignity, the creator of the Five Wishes advance directive, is pleased to offer multiple language translations developed with support from the United Health Foundation. Five Wishes has become the most popular advance directive in America because it is easy to use and understand, and it addresses the personal, emotional, and spiritual issues that people say matter most to them during times of serious illness. Thanks to new language translations, Five Wishes can now be used by people who may find it difficult to understand or complete the English document.

Caring Community - an online resource for people considering, planning for or engaged in end-of-life issues.

CMA — Advance Health Care Directive Kit (English)
California law provides individuals the ability to insure that their health care wishes are known and considered if they become unable to make these decisions themselves. The California Medical Association publishes an Advance Health Care Directive Kit which includes an Advance Health Care Directive form and wallet cards as well as information which answers the questions commonly asked about Advance Directives. For additional information about the Advance Health Care Directive, click here.

THE ADVANCE HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE KIT IS NOW AVAILABLE IN SPANISH:Spanish version of the Advance Health Care Directive Kit.
Preview the Advance Health Care Directive PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS KIT IS COPYRIGHTED.YOU SHOULD NOT REPRODUCE THE SAMPLE KIT IN ANY FORM WITHOUT FIRST OBTAINING THE PERMISSION OF THE CMA.

Consumer Guide to Funeral and Cemetery Purchases - To help relieve their families of some of these decisions, an increasing number of people are planning their own funerals, designating their funeral preferences, and sometimes even paying for them in advance. They see funeral planning as an extension of will and estate planning.

Death with Dignity - The greatest human freedom is to live, and die, according to one's own desires and beliefs. The most common desire among those with a terminal illness is to die with some measure of dignity. From advance directives to physician-assisted dying, death with dignity is a movement to provide options for the dying to control their own end-of-life care.

Funeral Consumers Alliance - The following nonprofit organizations are nonsectarian and are usually run by volunteers. They provide a wide range of funeral-planning information. The active groups have done a funeral price survey in their area, and many have negotiated a deep discount for members at certain cooperating funeral homes.

Funeral One - a personalization, technology, and consulting company for the funeral care profession. funeralOne's core services include strategic funeral home web site design, personal funeral service consulting, and funeral tribute video software.

Funeral Plan (A great site!) - Funeralplan.com is a free consumer information and education resource on funeral planning, financing funerals, funeral products and services, and grief support and counseling. You can also post free online obituaries and find out how to help your child handle grief.

National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization - The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) is the largest nonprofit membership organization representing hospice and palliative care programs and professionals in the United States. The organization is committed to improving end of life care and expanding access to hospice care with the goal of profoundly enhancing quality of life for people dying in America and their loved ones.

U.S. Living Will Registry - The mission of the U.S. Living Will Registry is to promote the use of advance directives through educational programs, and to make people's health care choices available to their caregivers and families whenever and wherever they are needed, while maintaining the confidentiality of their information and documents.