The links in this section will take you to the leading organisations in the fields of loss, grief, and end-of-life care. You will also find select infomation sources which relate to creating your own Legacy of Love. This list of links is by no mean exhaustive and we continue to add organisations on a regular basis.
If you know of a leading resource in any one of these fields, or wish to request a link for your own organisation, please email us.
Just click on the title of the subject that you are interested in below:
- The After Death Projectconducts in-depth research into After-Death Communications (ADC's) one study shows that 50-100 million Americans, 30-40% of the population, have had one or more ADC experiences.
- Dr Brian Weiss, is the top selling author of various books based on his experience as a psychiatrist and healer which explore past life regression and the after life.
- At Survival After Death you will find published articles, books and photographs relating to survival after death and psychical research.
- Trutz Hardo is one of Germany’s best-known regression therapists and the author of numerous ground-breaking books on reincarnation.
- Founded in 1884, the College of Psychic Studies is an educational charity promoting spiritual values and a greater understanding of human consciousness.
- Victor Zammit attorney-at-law, Solicitor of the Supreme Court of the New South Wales and the High Court of Australia presents a case for the after life.
- Cancer Care is America’s national nonprofit organisation that provides free, professional support services for anyone affected by cancer.
- Research has shown that 75 per cent of people seriously ill with cancer would like to be cared for at home. Every year, Marie Curie Nurses make that wish possible for thousands of cancer patients in cities, towns and villages across the UK.
- Cancer Help is one of the UK’s Cancer Research’s websites providing free information about cancer and cancer care for people with cancer and their families.
- At the Butterfly website you locate farms that offer a service whereby can have live butterflies released into the air to dramatic effect at life celebrations and funerals.
- The Natural Death Centre, a British charity that helps people arrange inexpensive, family-organised, and environmentally-friendly funerals
- Memorial Society of British Columbia, offer a range of burial options including environmental options.
- At One Place Memorials where you will find everything you need for planning a life celebration: memorial songs, verses, eulogy writing tips and ideas for making the celebration memorable.
- Next Gen Memorials provides life celebration ideas and products to guide you through planning a memorial service or funeral.
- The Dougy Centre was the first centre in the United States to provide peer support groups for grieving children, through the National Center for Grieving Children and Families they provide support and training locally, nationally and internationally to individuals and organisations seeking to assist children in grief.
- The Child Bereavement Trust provides excellent advice and resources for parents who have lost a baby or child and to children who have lost a parent.
- The Australian Museum’s website explores what happens to us when we die and the different ways cultures around the world deal with death.
- At the Death Clock website you can enter your personal data which is analysed by the clock giving an approximate date for your death.
- On Death & Dying is an inspiring site which gives unparalled Buddhist insight into death and dying, helping visitors develop an awareness of mortality in a way that will totally enrich and transform their lives.
- Dying Is… Grace Chow, a 32 year old woman documents her final months as she dies from chordoma, a rare tumour that formed at the base of her skull.
- Association for Death Education and Counselling, an interdisciplinary organisation of nearly 2,000 members including mental and medical health personnel, educators, clergy, funeral directors and volunteers.
- Growth House is and award-winning international gateway to resources for life-threatening illness and end of life care.
- This landmark PBS series ‘On Our Own Terms’ is presented by Bill Moyers who goes from the bedsides of the dying to the front lines of the movement to improve end-of-life care in America.
- Compassion & Choices is the oldest and largest choice-in-dying organisation in the US with more than 25 years of experience in advocacy and educational service.
- Funerals UK is an extensive resource for planning funerals including many options for alternatives to the norm.
- If I Should Die website is dedicated to providing practical information and support on death and funerals.
-The Grief Recovery Institute, founded by authors of the Grief Recovery Handbook, one of the most effective and highly recommended resources to help individuals overcome grief.
- Compassionate Friends is the American non-profit, self-help support organisation that offers friendship, understanding, and hope to the bereaved.
- Healing the Grieving Heart is an excellent weekly web radio series featuring Dr. Gloria Horsley, TCF’s Professional Advisor, and Heidi Horsley, MS, MSW, Psy.D. providing advice on grief and bereavement.
- The Journeys Project addresses the full spectrum of the human experience of loss in this award winning DVD series.
- The Jewish Bereavement Project provides information to help those who are bereaved through the journey of mourning. Offering support groups, advice and counselling services.
- Living with Loss: Hope and Healing for the Body, Mind, and Spirit is an excellent magazine offering articles, stories, poems, and resources for the bereaved.
- Videonation hosts a series of independent video’s showing the individual experiences of grief and loss from people around the UK.
- The BBC’s Relationship site provides extensive advice on coping with grief, covering both the practical and emotional issues relating to death.
- Beyond Indigo was listed in Forbes ‘Best of the Web’ for the 6th consecutive year for grief support message boards. The company provides grief support, products and services to individuals and companies who assist those in grief.
- The National Mental Health Associationof America, the country's oldest and largest non-profit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness provide fact sheets on grief.
- Mind is the UK’s leading mental health charity working to create a better life for everyone with experience of mental distress.
- Cruse Bereavement Care is the UK’s leading provider of bereavement counselling services. They offer help to anyone who is bereaved by death to help them understand their grief and cope with their loss.
- Griefnet is a supportive online community of people who are dealing with grief, death, and major loss.
- The Department for Health promote research and provide resources into bereavement services within the NHS in the UK.
- The New York Times article "Farewell with Love and Instructions" describes the many benefits of leaving a Legacy of Love.
- From a few words to a full multimedia website, Library of Life ensures that your memories are kept alive forever and those who mean the most to you are never forgotten.
- The Videonation site hosts independent videos, this one shows how a widow’s grief was eased thanks to the photographs and films taken by her late husband.
- At Tribute for You, you can create and share memories with those you love using photos, music and thoughts.
- Marianne Williamson, author of many enlightened books, including A Return to Love.
- Miranda Holden, spiritual counsellor and psychotherapist, provides insightful wisdom in her book 'Boundless Love'.
- Deepak Chopra's 'Path to Love' is a must for anyone wishing to venture further down the path to fulfillment and happiness in life and relationships.
- The Love we are to have for thy neighbor in Aramaic, is "rakhma" which means unconditional love. Interestingly, we have no word for such an attitude in English.
- At the Memory Of Website, you can create lasting memories with photo’s, life stories, publish audio and video clips, create family trees to link generations and light candles to remember your loved ones.
- At the Remembering Site anyone can publish their life memories, experiences, memoirs, or autobiography.
- At Christian Memorials you can create your own memorial website. This is the perfect way to honour a loved one, allowing people from around the world to relate fond memories and condolences.
- Eternal Reefs is an American company that create environmental living legacies that memorialise the passing of a loved one.
- Nature’s Passage offer burials at sea. This traditional practice honours the dead bringing closure and comfort by creating a loving connection with the Earth’s most majestic resource, the sea.
- The Near Death site is a portal for extensive research and information relating to near death experiences and the after life.
- The International Association for Near-Death Studies (IANDS) is the first organization in the world devoted exclusively to the study of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) and Near-Death-Like experiences.
- Dr Melvin Morse is the author of many books on Near Death Experiences, specifically in children.
- The Palliative Care Policy Center (PCPC) offers expert support to hospitals, nursing homes, health systems, hospices, and other organizations that serve individuals nearing the end of life.
- Channel 4 review the report on ‘Palliative Care for Young People’ conducted in a collaboration of Great Ormond Street Hospital, The Association for Children with Terminal Conditions and their Families (ACT), the National Council for Hospice and Specialist Palliative Care Services and the Scottish Partnership Agency for Palliative and Cancer Care.
- The Sacred Dying Foundation is an organisation committed to transforming the dying experience by reintegrating spiritual and religious practices, and changing the way our society experiences death and dying.
- Embracing Your Dying documents the influence of spirituality and spiritual experiences on the health and well-being of chronically ill individuals.
- A transcript of The Good Death programme broadcast on ABC’s in which David Rutledge explores what it means to die well.
- Science and Technology news provide a commentary on a developmental approach to spiritual experience at life's end.
- The Will Bureau is a leading legal service provider in London, UK offering a range of legal services including estate planning, discretionary trusts, asset preservation, wealth management, tax saving and much more.
- The Citizens Advice Bureau is the UK's central resource on all matters relating to issues such as preparing a will.
- Parting Wishes is an award winning US website where you will find everything you need for writing a will or a living will.
- Legacy Writer is the leading US estate planning legal document web service.
