Death By Design

Final Roadmap® is a web-based guide and toolkit focused on end of life issues. Its mission encourages you to Consider, Document & Communicate those wishes easily and safely. It allows end of life to be approached simply, privately, and securely.

Buy the Final Roadmap® Toolkit once and keep it forever.

Straightforward and comprehensive, this toolkit can be updated as much and as often as desired. This gives you, your family, friends and loved ones clarity and peace of mind during difficult times.

Kerry Shannon is a healthcare consultant with 30 years experience, who brings her MA/Bioethics and Health Policy degree to Final Roadmap®. Her job working in hospitals for decades allowed her to witness first-hand people suffering every day because their loved one did not provide any end of life planning.

Steve Byrne is a successful and experienced entrepreneur who has worked with hundreds of employees in fast-moving businesses. Having worked with so many people whose parents – not to mention themselves – had done little end of life planning, Steve recognized the deep market need.

To address this need, they created Final Roadmap®.

https://www.finalroadmap.com

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PS - I (Kimberly) feel lucky to call this Red headed Doctor a GOOD FRIEND.

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Francesca Arnoldy, UVM alumna and longtime birth worker, is the course developer, facilitator, and program director of the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Program. She is author of Cultivating the Doula Heart: The Essentials of Compassionate Care and leads in-person workshops about doula approaches and end-of-life wishes. Her goal is to encourage people to hold one another's hands through life's intensities and sacred rites of passage. She recently founded Contemplative Doula as a resource to help people to prepare for birth, death, and life with the doula heart. Francesca lives in quaint Hinesburg, VT with her family in a most idyllic village.

Bio:

Francesca Arnoldy, UVM alumna and longtime birth worker, is the course developer and program director of the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine's End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Program. She is the author of Cultivating the Doula Heart: Essentials of Compassionate Care, and she regularly leads in-person workshops about doula approaches and end-of-life wishes. She works collaboratively with her local hospice and palliative care teams. Her goal is to encourage people to hold one another's hands through life's intensities and sacred rites of passage. Francesca lives in quaint Hinesburg, VT with her family in a most beloved village.  

Francesca can be found contemplating birth, death, and life with the doula heart on her website contemplativedoula.com. 

Contemplative Doula: https://contemplativedoula.com/

Cultivating the Doula Heart (guidebook): https://www.amazon.com/Cultivating-Doula-Heart-Essentials-Compassionate/dp/1732780609

UVM End-of-Life Doula Training Program: https://learn.uvm.edu/program/end-of-life-doula-certificate/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/contemplativedoula

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBqZMIDYIhkHc7nbya74SzA

Twitter: @DoulaFrancesca

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...whether it’s our own death, our loved ones, or our pets. Before I Die AZ brings together more than 20 leading Local and award winning National Speakers. Plus films, fun and valuable prizes to encourage this discussion. Everyone needs to be educated about living life, facing death and the emotional journeys in-between. While death may be the ultimate mystery, preparing for it need not be your ultimate fear. Instead, it’s a gift…to yourself and your loved ones. Join us in learning and exploring the many topics of life, death and beyond.

https://www.beforeidieaz.com

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An illustrator and animation designer turned spiritual author and speaker, Robert's three Near-Death Experiences, and years of meditation, study, and service, have taught him some powerful spiritual lessons—the hard way—he'd like to pass along to you—the easy way. His books, columns, appearances, and workshops are intended to help with any with questions or concerns you may have about life, or death, with the emphasis always on Love & Happiness. 

The first book, How to Survive Life (and Death), A Guide to Happiness in This World and Beyond isdesigned to help you meet and deal with life's toughest inevitable challenges; and ways to overcome death and find lasting happiness through Radical Kindness, Radical Forgiveness, and Radical Surrender, all in an easy, light-hearted, (& hopefully a little funny) way.

Book:

How to Get to Heaven (Without Really Dying), Wisdom From a Near Death Survivor is all about finding Heaven based on the lessons of his three NDEs: Principles of human Perspective that come from an out-of-body experience; Presence learned in the eternal moment of a "life review," & from timeless wisdom texts; and practical ways to find your Purpose that come from being "forced back into life," that help you find and create Heaven on Earth. There are many ways to get there — without really dying.  

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Less than a year after Amy's mother was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma she died. Amy's family were fortunate she had decision-making capacity until the end and that she could make treatment decisions for the immediate questions, as well as give them all directions about what was coming. Amy's family had those hard conversations about goals of care, her mother's wishes, and treatment decisions--they just all took place in a short time frame with an immediate impact. Amy's family were lucky. They were spared having to second-guess themselves about what her mother may have wanted.

Amy Vandenbroucke have always been interested in the intersection of health law and ethics. She was serving as Legal Counsel for Oregon Health & Science University when the opportunity for her to be an Associate Director at the OHSU Center for Ethics in Health Care opened. In that role, she served as Chair of the Oregon POLST Task Force for 2 years and the Executive Director of the National POLST Paradigm for 4 years (2 years of overlap). Amy is so grateful that the opportunity to help promote a process that can make end of life easier for patients and families, helping others have hard conversations and ensuring treatment preferences are elicited, documented and honored.

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Today we talk with several members of Cone Health's Palliative Care Team. The team is lead by Dr. Elizabeth Golding.

Elizabeth Golding, DO, medical director of Cone Health Palliative Care Services, has been invited to join a state-wide task force. The goal of the task force is to develop a comprehensive plan to help individuals with serious illnesses and their caregivers across North Carolina. 

The task force hopes to:

• Make palliative, hospice and other similar types of care easier for patients to understand.
• Encourage patients and provides to discuss care when someone has a serious medical condition.
• Make it easier for patients to make their wishes known when faced with a critical medical condition.

The task force is being formed by the North Carolina Institute of Medicine (NCIOM) and will kick off in early 2019.

Don’t wait until a health crisis happens to talk about end-of-life care and Advance Directives. It’s one of the most important conversations to have. And it’s not just for the elderly or those with a serious illness. Don’t wait to start talking about your wishes. Join Elizabeth Golding, DO, medical director of the Cone Health Palliative Medicine Team, a member of Cone Health Medical Group, to learn more about the conversation you should have, but don't.

www.conehealth.com

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As a South Carolina native, Heather was born in Anderson and later during high school she moved to Greenwood. She graduated from Greenwood High School in 1995 then she attended and graduated from Lander University for her undergraduate in Health Care Administration in 1999. After college, she moved to Greenville and began her career as a Nursing Home Administrator which is where she fueled my love and desire to care for seniors. In 2009, she received my Masters in Business Administration from North Greenville University. She believes that it is has been her calling to serve seniors in a variety of capacities including long term care, rehabilitation services and now Hospice care.

Heather is married to Edward Burton, also a South Carolina native, and they have two boys, Ethan and Olin. In their free time, they enjoy exploring the outdoors, spending time with family and discovering all that Greenville/Greer have to offer.

At Wren Hospice we believe that care should be patient-centered. We believe that hospice is a gift and we work around the clock to provide compassionate and attentive care to every person touched by our program.

Wren Hospice provides in-home care and inpatient care for people with life-limiting illnesses. We also strive to provide a positive, supportive environment for their families as well. We believe this time in the life of a family can be an opportunity for spiritual and emotional healing.

https://wrenhospice.com/about/

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Adam Hayden is a philosopher of science, a champion of the humanities in medical education, an advocate for palliative care, and a person living with brain cancer (glioblastoma). He serves on multiple national advisory councils focused on patient engagement and advocacy, he is a member of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) scientist-survivor program and he co-moderates a monthly social media chat and a virtual support group for the brain tumor community.

Adam Hayden will be a featured speaker at this year's EndWell Conference in San Francisco. If you are interested in attending EndWell click here.

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Today we talk with Caren Martineau.  She is the founder of  Bevival. Bevival is one of my sponsors supporting my Live Well Die Well Tour.  Today we learn how Bevival is changing how we talk about End of Life.

For a culture that prides itself on aging well, it's time we learned how to die well. That's why we adopted the term "death literacy." 

Death literacy isn't some canned slogan, but a toolkit of knowledge and experiences that grow over the course of a lifetime. Your lifetime.

Death literacy asks one to consider their own end of life and then do something about it... long before the end. Becoming death literate signals an acceptance of mortality and a recognition there's tremendous value in preparing to prepare, while you're busy doing this thing called life.

Death literacy is something you do it for yourself, your loved ones and for generations to come. So start anywhere. You'll be surprised at how you'll begin looking at life in a whole new light.

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