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Check these websites:
https://www.honoringchoicespnw.org/advance-directive-documents/%23section-hcp-advanced-directive
https://Theconversationproject.org
https://prepareforyourcare.org
https://prepareforyourcare.org/en/advance-directive-state/wa
https://endoflifewa.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/EOLWA-Advance-Directive-7.24.23.pdf
https://www.honoringchoicespnw.org/
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988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline goes live on all devices on July 16, 2022.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is funded by SAMHSA (The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration) and has been administered by Vibrant Emotional Health since it began in 2005.
The Lifeline is a national network of over 200 local, independent crisis centers equipped to help people in mental health-related distress or experiencing a suicidal crisis via call, chat, or text. The Lifeline provides free and confidential support to people in suicidal crisis or mental health-related distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, across the U.S.
Numerous studies have shown that the Lifeline works—most callers are significantly more likely to feel less depressed, less suicidal, less overwhelmed, and more hopeful after speaking to a Lifeline crisis counselor. Lifeline crisis counselors are an essential element of our crisis care system to save lives. This network has been massively underfunded and under-resourced. This patchwork of local, state, and private funding for the network has fallen way short of meeting the need. That’s why, in anticipation of the expected increase in volume of 988, it’s crucial that we shore up the infrastructure of the Lifeline and support the local crisis centers.
Read much? Take a look at these titles:
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life by Ira Byock – “Dying doesn’t cause suffering. Resistance to dying does.”
How We Die: Reflections of Life’s Final Chapter by Sherwin B. Nuland
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
The Shift: One Nurse, Twelve Hours, Four Patients’ Lives by Therese Brown
The Fault in our Stars by John Green “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
Being Mortal by Atul Gawande “Our ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death but a good life to the very end.”
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant by Roz Chast
Knocking On Heaven’s Door by Katy Butler
The Conversation by Angelo Volandes