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Guide for making a Joyful Death Plan

Are you ready to experience a joyful, enlightening, and dignified death experience? View our preparing and planning resources.

A resource by Joyful Death Institute

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The Joyful Death Institute provides materials for planning and preparing for your joyful, dignified, and peaceful transition.

Our Planning and Preparing resources offer support for developing, documenting, and discussing your Death Plan and wishes. We offer guidance and a template you can use to get your planning journey rolling.

This practice is aimed at being a supportive framework and tool to ensure your wishes are clear and fulfilled happily. We also aim to help you have supportive, rather than contentious, conversations with family members who may have a different visions for memorializing each other.

If you get stuck, or find yourself wanting support in discussing your Death Plan and wishes, or your loved one's Death Plan and wishes, we are available to support you including with group + family conversations.

Our Inspiration

We do not know when we will pass, but we know it will happen at some point, so why not be prepared? Why not consider how you want to be remembered and clearly document those wishes so they can be fulfilled? The best time to think about, and document these wishes, is often when we feel supported, healthy, and alive, although sometimes we do need to have these conversations in a more urgent way. We aim to help by providing a framework to think through and share your wishes in a good way with your family, friends, and community. A joyful death means embracing all the parts and pieces of who we are with awareness, compassion, and ease. We can support you and your loved ones so transition wishes are clear and communicated.
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