Finding THe Good Death Advanced Directive An Advanced Directive is a legal document that states what you wish to be done with your body, and who is to excute your wishes with legal right over your corpse after your passing. It’s important for everyone to have, but especially important for marginalized communities like LGBTQ+ people. Otherwise your body generally goes to your next of kin. Make sure you tell everyone in your life about this advanced directive, especially who will be executing it.
Demistify death
Talk about it Not just what happens after you die, but talk with friends and family about how you’d like to die. While we’d all love to go in our sleep, you can’t garuntee that’s how it will happen. Important conversations about what you’d like to happen to you if you lose power to make medical choices. If you’d like to excerise your right to die if life came to that. Talk about if you’d like to be kept on life support and for how long. Have the worst case scenario talks with your loved ones while everyone in happy and healthy. Hopefully it never come to using that knowledge, but if it does you’ll be prepared
Death isn’t the most common dinner time conversation, sure. But society has put such a taboo on the subject that we treat it as something to only be talked about exclussively when someone has died that when it comes down to how the departed would have wanted theiir funeral to go that those left have little to no clue what to do. By talking candidly and comfortably about death you and your loved ones make it easier on each other plan your funerals
