HEALING & UNDERSTANDING
Grief
DEATH OVER DINNER
Guidance on planning a dinner to talk about death.
DEATH CAFE
A global movement providing a safe, informal space for people to openly discuss death, dying, and mortality over tea and cake, aiming to normalize the topic, reduce fear, and help people live more fully.
THE DINNER PARTY
The Dinner Party connects young adult grievers to a caring and supportive community of peers who help each other navigate loss, life, and all the stuff in between.
MODERN LOSS
Candid conversations about grief. Lots of resources.
KINTSUGI GRIEF CENTER
Grief support, education, and resources.
WHAT’S MY GRIEF
Resources for people grieving and the people who support them.
GRIEF SHARE
Support group locator for people grieving.
ALL THERE IS PODCAST
Exploration of grief by Anderson Cooper.
GRIEFCAST PODCAST
Interviews with media personalities sharing stories of losing a loved one.
GRIEF OUT LOUD PODCAST
Opening up the conversation on grief with personal stories, interviews with bereavement professionals, and tips for the grieving.
ALLIANCE OF HOPE
If you lost a loved one to suicide.
Children
NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN’S GRIEF
Support and resources for grieving children.
SESAME STREET GRIEF
Elmo helps teach kids about loss.
COMPASSIONATE FRIENDS
Supporting family after a child dies.
WIDOWED PARENT
Support, resources, and info on how to support your child.
DOUGY CENTER
Support and toolkits for children, teens, and families dealing with grief.
JUDI’S HOUSE
Support for grieving children and families.
Explore Death
THE LESSONS OF DEATH PODCAST EPISODE
Sam Harris speaks with Frank Ostaseski about death and dying—and about how the awareness of death can improve our lives in each moment.
REIMAGINE
A non-profit organization sparking community-driven festivals and conversations that explore death and celebrate life.
TALK DEATH
Death Positive, Grief & Bereavement Resources.
ENDWELL PROJECT
Living well is about ending well. Great video talks.
WHEN YOU DIE PROJECT
Raising awareness about death through films, resources, and podcasts. Hosting the conversation you've been avoiding.
THE ORDER OF THE GOOD DEATH
Accepting that death itself is natural, but the death anxiety of modern culture is not.
WHAT MATTERS IN THE END TALK
Essential talk by Dr. BJ Miller.
THE ART OF DYING WELL PODCAST
Making death and dying something we can talk about openly without discomfort or fear.
DEATH IN THE AFTERNOON PODCAST
Dispel myths about death and dead bodies by the Order of the Good Death.
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF DEATH
Iconography of death and funerary art within the historical development of Mexico
A COLLECTIVE FOR RADICAL DEATH STUDIES
CRDS is the radical shift Death Studies needs and thereby serves as a source of knowledge for how death practitioners, death care professionals, students and scholars alike can all better understand deathways of people of color and marginalized groups.
NPR PODCASTS ON DEATH
Rethinking death.
ASSOCIATION FOR DEATH EDUCATION AND COUNSELING
Thanatology Association for the study of death, dying, and bereavement.
LA MORT
Death community and education platform. Classes etc.
Caregiver Support
WORKING DAUGHTER
Support and resources for women balancing career, life, and caregiving.
ZEN CAREGIVING
Support for caregivers.
CONNECT
Legacy
LEGACY
The largest database of obituaries.
STORYCORPS
Share stories for others to appreciate.
STORYWORTH
Record stories and images that are preserved into a bound book.
KEEPER
Online memorial pages.
MY HERITAGE
Online Family Tree.
ANCESTRY
Geneology and DNA.
THE LEGACY PROJECT
Connecting college students with older adults in their communities for mutual storytelling, ensuring that intergenerational legacies are preserved and celebrated for years to come.
Crowdfunding
EVERLOVED
Memorial website and rapid funeral fundraising.
GO FUND ME
Fundraising for memorials and funerals.
Health Journeys
THE CONVERSATION PROJECT
Caregiver support tools to get the conversation going about end of life plans with your loved ones. Finding out what you value.
LOTSA HELPING HANDS
A central place to coordinate meals and help for friends & family.
CARING BRIDGE
A trusted place to communicate to your community, capture your thoughts, and coordinate help on your terms.
END OF THIS LIFE PLANNING
Estate Planning
EMPATHY
An app that helps your organize all the tasks after losing a loved one.
TRUST AND WILL
Write a will.
LEGALZOOM
Write a will, advanced care directive etc.
ELDER LAW
Eldercare 101 for elderlaw, social security, medicare, medicaid, and estate planning.
Palliative & Hospice Care
METTLE HEALTH
Provides consultations for patients and caregivers navigating serious illness founded by Dr. BJ Miller, a hospice and palliative medicine physician, author of “A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death.”
WELLTHY
Care concierge and critical care infrastructure.
CARING INFO
Help you make informed decisions about care and services before a crisis.
HOSPICE FOUNDATION
Help make informed decisions.
Organizing
TRUSTWORTHY
Get all your stuff safe and organized in one place.
EVERPLANS
One stop spot for all your important info: wills, insurance, digital accounts, health info. Share it with your people.
GOOD TRUST
A Digital Vault to organize your life & legacy.
NEAR
Organizing care to navigating loss.
End of Life Doulas
Advance Care Directive
FIVE WISHES
Digital or print advanced care directive template.
AARP
Forms by state.
ADVANCED CARE DIRECTIVES
Everything you need to know.
DEATHCARE
Traditional Funeral Homes
MY WONDERFUL LIFE
Plan your own funeral so your loved ones don’t have to.
PARTING
Compare funeral cost pricing.
ALL TOGETHER
Nationwide network of locally run funeral homes.
Green Burials
GREEN BURIAL COUNCIL
Green burial is a way of caring for the dead with minimal environmental impact that aids in the conservation of natural resources, reduction of carbon emissions, protection of worker health, and the restoration and/or preservation of habitat.
RECOMPOSE
Become soil when you die.
EARTH
Transform into nutrient-rich soil.
ETERNAL REEFS
Memorialize ashes in an eco-friendly marine habitat.
BETTER PLACE FORESTS
Spread ashes around your own memorial tree.
LOOP
Become one with nature in a mycelium living coffins or urn.
HOME FUNERAL ALLIANCE
Sharing all the ways home funerals can look and feel. Support and info to create your own. Community deathcare resource.
FINAL PASSAGES
Conscious dying, home funeral and green burial resources.
Sympathy
BEYOND WORDS
Care packages for the bereft.
Obituary
EPILOGG
From creating and sharing events to writing an obituary, Epilogg helps you navigate the loss of your loved one.
THE ART OF THE OBITUARY
An interview with NY Times obit write Margalit Fox for the Paris Review.
THE LAST WORD
A film about an obit writer starring Shirley MacLaine.
TIPS FROM DEAD PEOPLE
Reading of hilarious obits by Mary McGreevy.
Body Donation
SCIENCE CARE
Organ donation and non-transplant donation for science and medical research.
GENESIS LEGACY
Whole body donation foundation for science research.
BODY FARM
Forensic Anthropology Center.
ORGAN DONOR NATIONAL REGISTRY
Dept of HHS’s comprehensive list by state.
DONATE LIFE
Sign up to be a donor.
BRAIN DONOR PROJECT
Donate brain tissue for neurologic study to identify treatments and cures for all kinds of brain disease.
Eulogy
GIVE THE EULOGY
Professional eulogy writer.
UNUSUAL FUNERAL POETRY
Curated selection of beautiful and unusual poems and readings for anyone looking for something a little different.
Memorial Vessels
AND VINYLY
Live on from behind the groove. Press ashes into records. For music lovers.
PARTING STONE
Turn ashes into a memorial stone.
BIOS URNS
Designed to turn your loved one into a tree.
THE LIVING URN
Grow a memory tree from this biodegradable urn.
URNA CONCEPT
Hand-carved wood urns.
BOYCE STUDIO
Wood urns.
ETERNEVA
From ashes to diamonds
