End of Life Planning Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

MESSAGE FROM THE RABBI

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

INTRODUCTION

PREFACE

When Death Is Imminent or Has Occurred

Whom to notify and what they need to know

SECTION I: ADVANCE PLANNING

A. Health Care Advance Planning

• Health Care Proxy or Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care  
• Medical Directive or Living Will and related documents  
• Organ Donation

B. Legal Planning and Documents, other than Health Care

• Durable Power of Attorney
• Agent for the Disposition of Remains
• Preparing a Folder of Needed Documents (“JUST IN CASE” file)

C. Cemeteries and Funeral Homes

• Prearranging a Cemetery
• Prearranging a Funeral Home

SECTION II: FROM DEATH THROUGH MOURNING

A. From Death through Burial

• First Questions: Organ Donations and Autopsies
• Funeral Homes and Cemeteries
• Collecting and Preparing the Body for a Traditional Jewish Funeral
• The Funeral Service and Burial

B. Mourning

• Shiva
• Shloshim
• After Shloshim
• Habonim’s Chesed Committee

APPENDIX: RESOURCES AND READING