Getting Comfortable with Death
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My Personal Comfort Plan
available as a booklet and fillable PDF
available as a booklet and fillable PDF
My Personal Comfort Plan guide and checklist makes preparing your personal comfort wishes an easy and heartfelt process. Designed to enhance your comfort and reduce your pain and suffering, My Personal Comfort Plan invites you to learn how to do death better. You'll feel a greater sense of control over your illness and dying process while creating a personal plan that cares for your body, mind, heart and spirit.
Deathly Matter participants - use your special discount code DEATHLYMATTERS20. Offer expires Sunday, November 15 at midnight.
Deathly Matter participants - use your special discount code DEATHLYMATTERS20. Offer expires Sunday, November 15 at midnight.
My Personal Comfort Plan will help you define your personal comfort wishes in seven key areas:
- Comfort for Your Body
Tending to your physical comfort can help you feel like yourself, especially in new and unfamiliar circumstances. Consider different locations when defining your physical comfort wishes. - Readings and Rituals
Rituals are mindful, intentional actions that help you and your loved ones live in the moment and honour the changes that are happening. Rituals help us process grief and provide an anchor as you mark the final months and moments of your life. - Your Environment
It is important to feel a sense of control over your environment when you are feeling ill and vulnerable. - Complementary Therapies
Complementary therapies can decrease stress, relieve pain and improve quality of life. You may choose to use these therapies alongside curative medical treatments and with your palliative care. - Who You Want with You
Who you want with you through illness and end-of-life is a personal decision. Some people thrive surrounded by community while others prefer solitude. - How You Want to be Treated
Some people faced with a serious illness want to speak about their eventual death and legacy. Others prefer to focus on everyday normal things. Maybe you want both? - Things You'd Like to Avoid
People who are seriously ill or dying sometimes wish they had been a more authentic version of themselves. Two of the top five regrets of the dying are about having been true to oneself and having freely expressed one’s feelings.