Resources

Local Resources on Cortes Island

• Community-Led Death Care
• Community Resource Directory for Cortes
• Quadra Way to Go Guide
• Whaletown and Manson’s Landing Cemeteries. Contact information in Community Bulletin Board of Cortes Little Phone Book.

Articles Featuring or Written by Local People

• Jen’s Last Ceremony Podcast featuring Darshan Stevens
• Interview Darshan Stevens on her mother’s life, death and the grieving process. Interview on CKTZ Radio
• The Cortes Deathcaring Collective | Cortes Currents Interview on CKTZ Radio
• Bringing a Homeless Son Home Podcast featuring Gypsy Mama
• The Grassy Green Future of Composting Human Bodies written by Mercedes Grant
• Grief Rituals written by Mercedes Grant, artist Carmen Kelly, for Double Blind Magazine, as well as other articles

Death Education

• Interviews with Christa Ovenell on CBC’s North by Northwest — Death’s Apprentice
• Videos with Suzanne O’Brien, including 90 Minute Level 1 End of Life Doula Training – Demio. Look for more of her helpful videos on YouTube.
• Caitlin Doughty Videos are far more than entertaining

Legal Information and End-of-Life Planning

• Quadra Notary
• Nidus (BC, CA) – non-profit charitable organization set up by seniors and disability groups
• Peoples Law School (BC, CA)
• End of Life Planning Workbook
• Checklist of Decisions Regarding My Death

Support For Families

• Campbell River Hospice Society

Family-Led / Community-Supported / DIY Funerals

• Community-Led Death Care
• Cortes Community Resource Directory
• Canadian Integrative Network for Death Education (CA)
• The Centre for Sacred Death Care
• Sacred Crossings Videos
• National Home Funeral Alliance
• How to Be Better at Death Interview
• What the Irish Wake teaches us about living and dying  TED: Irish Wake
• Community-Led Death Care, Tideline Article
• Community-Led Death Care: Jennifer Stevens, Tideline Article
• Bringing a Homeless Son Home Podcast featuring Gypsy Mama
• The Cortes Deathcaring Collective | Cortes Currents Interview on CKTZ Radio
• Interview Darshan Stevens on her mother’s life, death and the grieving process. Interview on CKTZ Radio
• Jen’s Last Ceremony Podcast featuring Darshan Stevens
• Why you should spend time with a dead body by Caitlin Doughty, Youtube video
• Deathwork is cultural change work Short video, Sarah Kerr

Experience of Death

• I See Dead People, Ted Talk by Dr. Christopher Kerr
• The Moment of Death, Tideline Article

Returning the Body to the Earth

• Ways To Go, Tideline Article
• Natural Burial:
  • Natural Burial Video (Ontario)
  • Natural (Green) Burial, Tideline Article
  • Green Burial (Canada)
  • Denman Island Natural Burial Cemetery
• Aquamation:
  • Aquamation, Tideline Article
  • CBC’s North by Northwest — Death’s Apprentice Dec 12, 2021 Episode
  • Earths Option Interview with CBC – YouTube
  • Article: Desmond Tutu chooses Aquamation
• Human Composting:
  • Video: Let’s Visit the Human Composting Facility

Organ Donation

• BC Organ Transplant (CA)

Hastening Death

• Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking, Tideline Article
• Medical Assistance in Dying, Tideline Article
• Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) | Island Health
• Dying With Dignity Canada
• Bridge C-14 – Medical Assistance in Dying support

Psychedelics to Aid Terminal Distress

• Book: How to Change Your Mind

Ceremony

• Be Ceremonial Tool to create ceremony

Legacies

• Cortes Island Foundation