Key Resources For Palliative Care
Hope for the Best, Plan for the Rest: 7 Keys for Navigating a Life-Changing Diagnosis
by Sammy Winemaker and Hsien Seow
The Four Things That Matter Most – 10th Anniversary Edition: A Book About Living
Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds – Uncovering the Nine Key Factors of Spontaneous Remission Through Holistic Healing Practices and Survivor Stories
NM Medical Orders for Scope of Treatment (MOST) Form: https://www.nmmost.org/nmmost-form-download
Five Wishes Form, a very good framework in which to consider advance directives from a broader perspective than strict medical orders. https://www.fivewishes.org/for-myself/
Advice to Future Corpses and Those Who Love Them, Sallie Tisdale.
The author is a Buddhist teacher and hospice nurse. Here is an introduction and excerpt (https://tricycle.org/magazine/sallie-tisdale-advice-for-future-corpses/) that gives you a sense of it.
A Beginner’s Guide to the End, BJ Miller & Shoshana Berger.
Brilliant demystification: “offers everything from step-by-step instructions for how to do your paperwork and navigate the health-care system to answers to questions you might be afraid to ask your doctor, like whether or not sex is still okay when you’re sick. You’ll be walked through how to break the news to your employer, whether to share old secrets with your family, how to face friends who might not be as empathetic as you’d hoped, and how to talk to your children about your will. (Don’t worry: If anyone gets snippy, it’ll likely be their spouses, not them.) There are also lessons for survivors, like how to shut down a loved one’s social media accounts, clean out the house, and write a great eulogy. . . An honest, surprising, and detailed-oriented guide to the most universal of all experiences” T