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Before I Go: The Essential Guide to Creating a Good End of Life Plan
A compassionate, practical guide to end-of-life matters, empowering us to clarify and share our wishes and continue to live life to the fullest
• Addresses the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of end-of-life planning to help you prepare well for your death
• Enables the reader to make well-informed decisions about their end-of-life care and facilitate conversations with family and friends about this difficult topic
• Includes guiding questions, exercises, and recording tools, as well as worksheets available for download and supportive online courses
Many people say “I wish I had known what they wanted” when their loved one has died. Too often, a person’s wishes for end-of-life care, and for after they have gone, have not been recorded. With this valuable guide, you can now begin to do this for yourself, so your relatives will be able to honor your wishes more easily, saving them unnecessary stress and upset at a potentially intense time.
Before I Go addresses the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of end-of-life planning to help you make well-informed decisions about your end-of-life care and prepare well for your death. Jane Duncan Rogers guides you with equanimity, care, and humor through subjects such as how to have a conversation about dying, the impact of grief on relatives responsible for estate matters, DIY funerals and what that entails. She states clearly what you need to have in place to ensure the best end of life possible, helps you identify your values and beliefs in this area, and demonstrates which actions you then need to take, and when. With a full resource pack of essential information available to you, including guiding questions, exercises, and recording tools, as well as downloadable worksheets and supportive online courses, decision-making will be much easier and you will find relief and peace of mind knowing you have taken care of outstanding matters.
You will also be giving a great gift to your loved ones. When they have this information in advance, you spare them many difficult decisions and administrative hassle at a time when they will be grieving and not in a fit state to cope. It can bring great comfort to those left behind to know they are indeed carrying out your wishes. It also provides an opportunity for you to record your achievements and history, giving them a legacy they would otherwise not have.
You can update your wishes at any time, meaning you’ll have a sense of control of your life and its ending and feel confident that if anything happens to you suddenly, you and your family will be as well-prepared as possible to deal with it. With your end-of-life wishes clearly defined, you gain the freedom to continue living your life to the full, knowing the difficult decisions have been handled.
• Addresses the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of end-of-life planning to help you prepare well for your death
• Enables the reader to make well-informed decisions about their end-of-life care and facilitate conversations with family and friends about this difficult topic
• Includes guiding questions, exercises, and recording tools, as well as worksheets available for download and supportive online courses
Many people say “I wish I had known what they wanted” when their loved one has died. Too often, a person’s wishes for end-of-life care, and for after they have gone, have not been recorded. With this valuable guide, you can now begin to do this for yourself, so your relatives will be able to honor your wishes more easily, saving them unnecessary stress and upset at a potentially intense time.
Before I Go addresses the emotional, spiritual, and practical aspects of end-of-life planning to help you make well-informed decisions about your end-of-life care and prepare well for your death. Jane Duncan Rogers guides you with equanimity, care, and humor through subjects such as how to have a conversation about dying, the impact of grief on relatives responsible for estate matters, DIY funerals and what that entails. She states clearly what you need to have in place to ensure the best end of life possible, helps you identify your values and beliefs in this area, and demonstrates which actions you then need to take, and when. With a full resource pack of essential information available to you, including guiding questions, exercises, and recording tools, as well as downloadable worksheets and supportive online courses, decision-making will be much easier and you will find relief and peace of mind knowing you have taken care of outstanding matters.
You will also be giving a great gift to your loved ones. When they have this information in advance, you spare them many difficult decisions and administrative hassle at a time when they will be grieving and not in a fit state to cope. It can bring great comfort to those left behind to know they are indeed carrying out your wishes. It also provides an opportunity for you to record your achievements and history, giving them a legacy they would otherwise not have.
You can update your wishes at any time, meaning you’ll have a sense of control of your life and its ending and feel confident that if anything happens to you suddenly, you and your family will be as well-prepared as possible to deal with it. With your end-of-life wishes clearly defined, you gain the freedom to continue living your life to the full, knowing the difficult decisions have been handled.
192 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2018
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About the author
Jane Duncan Rogers
6 books9 followersJane Duncan Rogers is an author and award-winning Life and Death coach who is passionate about creating a world where dying, death and grief are considered a natural, normal and nourishing part of conversation, with end of life plans becoming as commonplace as birth plans.
After her husband died in 2011, Jane wrote Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth. The response to this book led to her founding Before I Go Solutions®, a community interest company (not for profit) which is dedicated to helping people to prepare well for the best ending of life possible by completing their end of life plans.
Her newest book, Before I Go: The Essential Guide to Creating A Good End of Life Plan is available for pre-order and will be published in August 2018. This book ic complemented by a Workbook which is available from the website.
Before I Go Solutions also offers courses, both on and offline, to help individuals, organisations and companies get end of life plans created.
So how well prepared are you? Take the free quiz at https://www.beforeigosolutions.com and find out!
After her husband died in 2011, Jane wrote Gifted By Grief: A True Story of Cancer, Loss and Rebirth. The response to this book led to her founding Before I Go Solutions®, a community interest company (not for profit) which is dedicated to helping people to prepare well for the best ending of life possible by completing their end of life plans.
Her newest book, Before I Go: The Essential Guide to Creating A Good End of Life Plan is available for pre-order and will be published in August 2018. This book ic complemented by a Workbook which is available from the website.
Before I Go Solutions also offers courses, both on and offline, to help individuals, organisations and companies get end of life plans created.
So how well prepared are you? Take the free quiz at https://www.beforeigosolutions.com and find out!
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