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400+
Cancer Links
This site contains over 400 links to resources to help
deal with cancer. "Everything
you need to stay organized and informed."
Americans For Better Care of the Dying (ABCD)
ABCD Caring is dedicated to ensuring that all Americans
can count on good end of life care. Their goals include
building momentum for reform, exploring new methods and
systems for delivering care, and shaping public policy
through evidence-based understanding.
Address:
ABCD-Caring
4125 Albemarle Street NW
Suite 210
Washington DC 20016
Telephone Number: (202) 895-9485
Fax: (202) 895-9484
Email: info@abcd-caring.org
Bereavement
and Hospice Support NetLine
A state by state index listing of Hospices and Hospice Support Groups. Lists
include local addresses, phone numbers and names of contact person.
Growth
House - provides reviewed resources for life-threatening
illness and end of life care. Their primary mission is to
improve the quality of compassionate care for people who
are dying through public education and global professional
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Home Death:
Compassion and Choices:
Compassion & Choices' consultation program uses the power of choice and comfort to restore
hope to individuals and their loved ones at the end of life. Our professional staff and trained
volunteers help thousands of clients each year by listening without judgment to their fears and
guiding their search for a peaceful, humane death. We help clients with advance directives, local
service referrals, and pain and symptom management. We offer information on self-determined dying
when appropriate and provide emotional support through a difficult time. Phone 800.247.7421
Crossings:
Caring for our Own Death
CROSSINGS works to integrate dying and after-death care
back into our family and community life. We work to remove
the barriers that keep you locked into few alternatives
after the death of a loved one. We create opportunities
for families to complement the loss and grief of death
with healing and love.
A
Movement to Bring Grief Back Home
Many Bereaved Opting to Bypass Funeral Industry.
Hospice Foundation of America
Hospice Foundation of America provides leadership in the development and application
of hospice and its philosophy of care for terminally ill people, with the goal
of enhancing the American health care system and the role of hospice within
it. At this site you can learn about hospice care, how to select a hospice
and how to locate a hospice near you. You can learn of their programs, read
excerpts from their publications, and sign up for their annual bereavement
teleconference.
National Public Radio Online
NPR has a series called The End of Life: Exploring Death in America.
Organ Donation
How to become an organ and tissue donor. |
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