Help me manage end-of-life issues

• Article - How to Write a Meaningful Eulogy

  How to Write a Meaningful Eulogy. Giving a eulogy for a parent who has recently died isn't easy, but it's something you'll never regret doing.

• Article - Advance Health Care Directives and Living Wills: A Step-by-Step Guide

  How to set up a living will or health care directive. How to figure out what your parent wants and make sure it's reflected in the documents.

• Checklist - Hospice Care: A Resource List

  A list of agencies and organizations that can help you search for and find high quality cancer care.

Blog Posts

• Blog Post - Parents Are From Venus, We're From Mars

  A simple online test promises to assess your "conversational relationship" with your parents. The bottom line: If you're not talking about the big stuff now, you'd better start.

• Blog Post - Help! My mom's in hospice and my sister and I are arguing about her funeral.

  Our mom has said she wants to be cremated "so you don...

Questions & Answers

• Question - What do I do when my mother seems to have lost the will to live?

  Redirectlng your mother's time and attention to other people and activities may help give her a new zest for life.

Tips & Reflections

• Tip - It’s Important to Understand Hospice Care

  An explanation of why hospice care is not the same as giving up on life.

• Tip - You Can Pull Out of Hospice Care

  A person who has started hospice care can leave a hospice program if his condition improves.

• Tip - When You Want to Do It Yourself

  Resources to help you arrange for burial and other after-life tasks by yourself.

• Tip - Final Arrangements: A Will Is Not the Way

  Why your parents' end-of-life preferences should be discussed in advance, not written into their will.

• Reflection - What I Wish I'd Known: David Kuhl

  David Kuhl, author of What Dying People Want, reflects on why parents need to have meaningful discussions with their children before they die.