Class meets March 21, 28; April 11, 18, 25; May 9, 16, 23
NO CLASS April 4, May 2

If you discovered today that you will face certain death next week, what would you regret not having done to prepare? This course will help you address the morass of personal, financial, medical, legal, and emotional challenges you’ll face in dying, so that you’ll not leave important things undone. Imagine the gift others will receive if you have fully prepared them and yourself for your final trip. There will be no second chance if you don’t.
Participants will leave with a personal road map of what they want to do to prepare for their eventual death. We’ll begin with simple tasks like designing ID tags and bracelets, identifying and locating important documents and putting them where they can be accessed by intended others, creating a life list and beginning to do the things on it, and writing a short story or two about key happenings in our lives. We’ll then move on to more difficult tasks/issues of advance directives, DNRs and provider orders for life sustaining treatment (POLST), PODs for financial accounts, wills and trusts, and discussions with and letters to be left for loved ones. Finally we’ll address hospice and palliative care and other contingencies, right to die choices, disposition of one’s body, memorial service, funeral arrangements, and celebrations of life.