Ars Moriendi Project is a 501(c)3 organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for elders as the end-of-life approaches. The emphasis is on providing education, resources, and advocacy, for elders relating to aging, dying, and death. The foci are on Advance Care Planning, Conversations, and Documentation of the lives of elders.

1. Providing the Tools for informed Advance Care Planning (Art-of-Dying-Well.com)

• Understanding their rights as the end-of-life is approached
• The means of protecting their rights at the end-of-life
  1. Including healthcare
  2. Creating as comfortable an experience during death as possible
  3. Providing guidance for post-death desires including
     1. Memorials
     2. What to do with the body following death

• Letting others know the love and support, guidance, and gratitude, to be given to the survivors.
• Publications currently in the works:
  1. My Dying Wishes: How I Want to Be Treated as I Die and After I’m Gone—A comprehensive guide and workbook for completing an Advance Directive. To be published Spring 2022
  2. Aging and the Right to Die—a Study of Resilience and Desires for Death among Elders. This work includes examinations of Medical-Aid-in-Dying and VSED for elders. To be published Winter 2022.

1. Having Conversations about Dying and Death (DeathDiscourse.com)
   1. Creating opportunities to talk about issues of dying and death, suffering and grief, in an open forum.
   2. Encouraging the conversation with family members about one’s hopes and plans related to dying and death.
   3. Exploring alternatives to “traditional dying,” such as VSED and Medical-aid-in-dying.
   4. Interviews with experts in the fields of aging, dying, and death.

• Documenting elders’ lives and the pursuit for continued meaning while aging. (everydayElders.com)
  1. Oral Histories of Everyday Elders
  2. Exploring resilience while aging.