We are pleased to be able to make available to you an expanded series of forms, based on A Time to Prepare (Life Planning book) that will help guide you and your family through a series of conversations about end of life plans and care plans.
The packet includes a comprehensive “life data” section (listing all the forms, documents, desires and wishes); advance directive and health care power of attorney forms; a sample Ethical Will form; and a sample Practitioners Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST).
Rabbi Richard F. Address, D.Min, is the Founder and Director of www.jewishsacredaging.com. Rabbi Address served for over three decades on staff of the Union for Reform Judaism; first as a Regional Director and then, beginning in 1997, as Founder and Director of the URJ’s Department of Jewish Family Concerns and served as a specialist and consultant for the North American Reform Movement in the areas of family related programming. Rabbi Address was ordained from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in 1972 and began his rabbinic career in Los Angeles congregations. He also served as a part time rabbi for Beth Hillel in Carmel, NJ while regional director and, after his URJ tenure, served as senior rabbi of Congregation M’kor Shalom in Cherry Hill, NJ from 2011-2014.
These Life Data forms have been prepared to serve as a basis for starting the “Conversation” among families. Download the PDF file and use it as a guide in your discussions. A Time to Prepare [Read more…]
Rabbi Address recently covered key points to know about having end-of-life discussions with your family in an article, “How to Talk To Loved Ones About Your End-of-Life Wishes: Do’s and don’t’s for broaching the most [Read more…]
David Zinner, executive director of Kavod v’Nichum, a Maryland-based organization training Jewish communities and organizations in traditional Jewish funeral practices, is the guest on the next two episodes of “Conversations,” the talk show series on [Read more…]
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