Resources
End-of-Life Planning
Advance Directive Forms
(Statements of your wishes regarding medical treatments)Prepare For Your Care
Step-by-step advance directive forms by statePOLST (Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) Forms
Portable medical order form
Compassion & Choices
Organ Donor Registry
Nebraska - Live On Nebraska
Iowa - Iowa Donor Network
Three decks available from the company that help make talking about stories, beliefs, and preferences around the end of life a little more fun and easy
The Conversation Project
Helping people share their wishes for care through the end of life. Lots of free guides and resources.
Post Death
National Home Funeral Alliance
Educates and empowers families who want to care for their own deadGreen Burial Council
Environmentally sustainable after-death education & optionsNearest Green Burial Cemeteries
Heart Land Prairie Cemetery, Ottowa County, Kansas
Historic Topeka Cemetery, Topeka, Kansas
Longview Cemetery, Kansas City, Missouri
Terramation (Human Composting)
*While NE/IA doesn’t have any local terramation services, arrangements can be made to work with out-of-state providersFuneral Consumers Alliance
non-profit that empowers you to choose simple, meaningful, affordable after-death arrangementsThe Inspired Funeral
Readings, songs, rituals
Legacy
For You When I Am Gone: Twelve Essential Questions to Tell a Life Story by Steve Leder
Everloved
Memorial websiteStoryworth
Life story prompts that get turned into a keepsake book
Grief
Collective for Hope (Omaha)
Grief groups for adults and childrenMourning Hope Grief Center (Lincoln)
Grief Garden
Children’s grief counseling
Local Grief Products
Made with Grayce
Custom jewelry & grief giftsButterflies + Halos
Grief products: cards, candlesCentering and Grief Digest Magazine
Magazine, books
Other Local Death & Grief Doulas, & Educators
Jenni Herchenbach, Fourish Collaborative - Omaha
Death Doula, End-of-Life Support, Grief Tender
Rev. J. Maya Ravenson-Lawrence - Council Bluffs
Death Doula, Master LMT, Northern Tradition Shaman, Clinical AromatherapistNatalie Bolen - Omaha
Personal Assistant, Elder Care, Death Doula, Grief NavigatorSandy Lemen, Made with Grayce - Omaha
Death doula, funeral celebrant, jewelry & grief gifts
Abigail Shipp, Prairieland Birthworks - Omaha
Childbirth education, birth doula support and advocacy, bereavement care, and lactation counselingAngie Hanson, Butterflies + Halos - Omaha
Grief coaching
Hannah Pollack, Death Doula Hannah - Lincoln
End-of-Life Doula, Yoga Teacher, Usui Holy Fire Reiki Master, Grief Group FacilitatorAmy Hensley, MSN, RN, Before the Casket - Lincoln
Educator • Advocate • Conversation CatalystKerri Denell - Lincoln
Legacy Navigator, End of Life Doula, Author
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More resources added as they come about. If I’ve missed any local resources, please email moonlitmothdoula@gmail.com if you would like to be added