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This web site provides information, tools, training and other services to help you get your affairs in order so you can live the best possible life right up to your last natural breath.

If you are looking for a particular subject like funeral tips, Advance Care Directives, how to write a eulogy etc, follow the links in each page or click the search button on the left panel and start typing! If you can’t find what you want, please use the Contact option and ask me a question and I’ll get back to you.

I’ve gathered up as much information as I could from around the globe to help you to make the best choices suited to your life and spiritual values.

Why go to all this effort? Well, ‘we don’t know what we don’t know’, and I want this community portal to help you to discover what you need to know to be able to make positive choices that are not only right for you, but will soothe your family at a very difficult time.

A ‘most magnificent exit’ requires three important elements: Planning Well, Dying Well and Resting Well. Scroll down to discover a world of information on all things death and dying.

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Planning Well

PLANNING WELL means choosing how you want to be cared for; understanding what legal papers you need and filling them in properly; deciding who will do what and when… and planning how you will communicate your choices to medical staff and your loved ones to ensure your wishes are followed.

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Dying Well

DYING WELL will require you to discover all your medical and care options; make choices that match your personal values and communicate these choices to your carers and medical support team to ensure they are respected right to the natural end of your life.

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Resting Well

RESTING WELL means feeling the relief of having left a loving legacy knowing you have done everything you can to make your death easier on an emotional, legal and practical level for those left behind: for example choosing and expressing your preferred cremation/burial, coffin choices and how you would like your life to be celebrated when you are gone.

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What People Say

The Hon Andrew Constance MP

Member for Bega, NSW Treasurer, Minister for Industrial Relations– 2014

I believe the Journal would be beneficial to people of any age to set out their final wishes and would be best considered at a time when decisions can be made cognitively. The community information forum ‘Dying to Know’ organised by Shanna Provost was highly successful, enlightening, providing a platform for professional and lay people to discuss issues… regarding the many aspects of ‘putting their house in order’.
Bega Valley Hospice Group

NSW 2013

What a brilliant idea… thought-provoking… good tool to start a conversation within your family… makes dying normal.
Councillor Lindsay Brown

Mayor of Eurobodalla Shire– 2014

As Mayor of Eurobodalla Shire Council, I am very much aware of our Shire’s aging population and see the Journal as an essential tool to help people put their affairs in order while they are able to do so.
Karen Sander

Ideal Anti Ageing NSW 2014

My father was so impressed. He was off to the solicitor to document everything and then your book arrived. He cancelled the appointment and is raving about the book.
Linda Cameron

2014

Congratulations on a great idea. I heard you on the ABC and ordered one straight away. Must admit to some regret that I have nothing to list in the section outlining ‘Skeletons in the Closet’. Hoping you will visit Canberra again soon.
Heather McMillan

McMillan Staff Development 2012

My parents in law have held all their information close to their chests for their whole life and unfortunately they have days where they are not able to communicate clearly with us. This will guide them to provide us with the information we need to fulfil their wishes – thanks so much.
Bronnie Ware

Author of The Top Five Regrets of the Dying (Hay House) 2013

A fabulous guide, guaranteed to ease the load for loved ones left behind.
Liz Stenhouse

Narooma NSW 2013

An excellent resource for getting ones financial affairs and life wishes in order. One can never know when ones time is done here. great to be able to prepare for those left behind.
Jackie Stallard

Narooma NSW 2014

As a single parent and business owner I realised that my kids, clients and family overseas could suffer financial loss, extra costs, loss of their websites and untold hassle if anything happened to me…. I didn’t know what to do about it. Along came the Rest Easy Journal to guide me through the process. Now I know that my death or temporary incapacitation won’t add hardship to the grief my family and friends may be feeling.
Gaye Finch

Dementia Advisor– Alzheimer’s Australia NSW 2013

I just wanted to thank you so much for your Rest Easy Journal. My father recently passed away and as executor of his will I found your book was extremely helpful to prompt me who to contact. It was also great to have it on hand to get Mumís affairs in order. I would highly recommend it to anyone of any age.

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