by Dana Parks | Advice, General
If someone in your family is dying, you may be asked to decide between hospice and palliative care for them. So, how do you decide? What is the difference between the two? Someone you know may have had hospice care, so you pretty much know what it is. It gets...
by Dana Parks | Advice, General
California Right to Die Law California’s Governor, Jerry Brown signed The End of Life Option Act (California Right to Die Law)into effect on October 5, 2015. Recent efforts by many groups including the organization Death With Dignity had finally led to the...
by Dana Parks | Advice, General, Organ donation
When organ donors die, it is possible for them to save as many as eight lives if their organs are ready to use. In 2014, more than 28,000 transplants saved patients who needed them; thousands died waiting for transplants that could save them – please consider...
by Dana Parks | Advice, Funeral Planning, General
Tissue donation is a very personal decision. On one hand, you have a person who needs a donation; on the other, the person who is deciding to donate either their tissue or the tissue of a deceased person. Tissue donation can improve the quality of life for some and...
by Dana Parks | Advice, Funeral Planning, General
Dying Without A Will – What Happens If a person dies without a Will, each state in the United States has intestate succession laws that decide which assets go to which relative. Since most people do not wish the state to have control of what happens after they...
by Dana Parks | Cremation, General
When someone in your family passes, there are so many things to think about – the services, the burial, the legal issues, and it goes on and on. Now that we have implants and artificial parts there are more questions. What are you supposed to do? Can these man-made...
