Accompanying the Dying: Family and Friends Edition.
From the desk of Deanna Cochran, RN, Founder of CareDoula® Education.
"When someone we care about is living their last months, weeks, days and hours, life takes on an undeniable new quality indeed.
One thing is time may feel more precious; each moment is unavoidably defined by the acute awareness that we may only have a brief time left with our person. There is no other time quite like this one to prove the reality of only having this one now moment.
I was told long ago by a retired minister whose wife had died 2 years previous to our work together that I should create a family edition of my End-of-Life Doula Certificate Program (Certified CareDoula®), so I did.
And here it is for you. May it provide the peace that it has for 1000s of people around the world.
My hope is each one of us truly knows we accompanied our person the best we could in the moment, to love and care for them. Hindsight is 20/20, so no fair looking back and saying, '...I should have known...'
We show up, we do our best with what we have, we love and we give more than we ever thought we could. This is our legacy as one who accompanies the dying."
love ~ Deanna
'Accompanying the Dying' Includes:
PLUS... for a limited time...get YOUR personal questions answered!
Deanna is building an audio library for you ... so you have a special invitation to ask her your personal questions each month until the library is built (all the details are inside.)
... and, for what it's worth...people write Deanna just to tell her how much they love hearing her voice as she teaches ... It's true!❤️
Some Benefits of Our Program:
Here's What You'll Get Inside
There is an art and skill to showing up that Deanna shows you. As you learn about what to do for your person, you will also find that she addresses your needs as well.
Understanding Today’s End-of-Life Care Options
Reducing Suffering
Comfort as You Cure
Where Few Want to Go
Living as You’re Dying
Where’s Mom Going to Live?
Preparing Emotionally for End of Life
No Mystery in Showing Up
The Root of It
What do They Want?
Creating a Beautiful Space
Search for Meaning
Last Wishes
Is Closure for Real?
Practical Preparations
More than Stuff
Little Things That Unite
Where’s the Mop?
End-of-Life Paperwork
What do I Do?
How Detailed Can You Get?
Funeral Plan
Changes in the Body & Mind
The Dying Body
Nearing Death Awareness
Cognitive Changes as a Person Dies
What You May See: 2 Weeks to Death
The Dying Body: The Last Days and Hours
Death and After-Death Care
Close to the End
Deathbed Care
Pre-Death Vigil Support
Terminal Agitation
Death
After Death Care
A New World
...And One More Thing...
Deanna ALSO wants you to have ANOTHER Special Tool.
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She created a planning tool for you that will ENSURE you have hit all the major points in your end-of-life planning. All the bases are covered and Now you can have everything in ONE place.
My Death Plan™
My Death Plan™ guides you to create complete instructions.
ALONG WITH your Advance Directives, your loved ones will have all the important answers to the questions they need to know to avoid the chaos that often ensues during the dying time.
The Next Best Thing to Having a Hospice Nurse in the Family
There is no way to know all of this unless you have a lot of experience serving people through the end of life.
Some Love Notes From Past Students and Clients
"I hit the jackpot when I choose you to learn from - this- what you’re offering me...it’s an absolute blessing!”
~ Becky R.
"Working with Deanna feels like following a pathfinder into territory she knows well and will lead me safely through."
~ Susan R.
"I am deeply grateful for finding you on this journey, for learning from you, and for being a part of the incredible tribe you have created in this service to others. Thank you for your service, for sharing of yourself so selflessly, for your knowledge and wisdom, for your compassion, for your grace. Knowing you is a true honor."
~Katherine P.
We asked our students, present and past, to choose 3 words to describe their experience
with Deanna through our program:
- Karen Tarnower
- Cat Martin
- Sally Scott
- Larry Nicholas
- Marieke von Donkersgoed
This educational guide is for you to navigate
the situations you may experience with serious illness
and the dying of people you love and care about
over the years.
When we learn even one thing or have one shift in perspective, it changes everything.
Here are just a few things people say they receive from this program:
- A lessening of anxiety and fear
- Real confidence in knowing what to do.
- A more graceful presence and ways of being during the dying time.
- Skills that you can use.
- Personal journey with your own history and healing.
- Understanding of how to trust your own wisdom.
- Tools you can use.
- Personal boundary creation to care for yourself.
- Comprehensive end-of-life education and guidance you cannot get anywhere unless you have worked years in hospice.
"My hope is you have the best dying experience possible, free of anxiety and suffering. I want you to have access to the best care possible and often you have to make the effort to find it--but you need to know where to look. If every family had a hospice nurse for a daughter, there would be so many less issues going on during the dying time! My family has that and I want yours to have the next best thing--this program. There are a myriad of things to consider and plan for and that is why I brought everything I could think of, ALL in one place."
~all my love, Deanna
