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California Death Care

California Death Care

Click this image for a step by step walkthrough for the Advanced Health Care Directive

Advancd Healthcare directives are legal documents that allow you to make your decisions about end-of-life care ahead of time. They give you a way to tell your wishes to family, friends, and health care professionals and to avoid confusion later on.

Advanced Health Care Directive Form

Know your rights in California regarding death care services as well as caring for the deceased yourself and know your rights regarding access to information on funeral home purchases and presentation. You do not have to commit to something you don’t want or need and price lists should be up front and available, even over the phone.

Funeral and Cemetery Purchases

FTC Consumer Information

Burial & Cremation Laws in California

California Funeral Laws

California End of Life Option Act

Terminally ill patients have a right to pass on with dignity. Check out some of the information available in CA for people who would like to control their end of life decision.

Death Positive Movement – The Order of the Good Death

Sarah Chavez on Death Positivity, Grief, & Intersectional Feminism (lunalunamagazine.com)

Are you interested in open conversation about death care, history, education, and culture? Check out the movement for reconnecting with life and death, eco-friendly burials, and breaking the stigma around our own mortality.