End of Life Care

Advance Healthcare Directives
Download the Archdiocese of Los Angeles Advance Healthcare Directive and share with your parishioners and family members. This legal document helps everyone know your healthcare wishes. Make copies for your loved ones and your doctor, and keep one with you.
English (PDF) \\ Spanish (PDF)

For urgent bioethical questions call the National Catholic Bioethics Center at 215-877-2660


Share Flyers on End of Life Care at Your Parish

• Interviewing a Hospice Agency: Questions to Ask
• Catholic End of Life Teachings (En Español) – CCC
• End of Life Decisions Pastoral Guide (En Español) – CCC
• Hospice and Palliative Care (En Español ) – CCC
• Frequently Asked Questions About End of Life  – CCC
• Transformed By Love: Consider Your Spiritual Care at the End of Life – Archdiocese of Washington
• Transformed By His Gaze: Coping with Grief – Archdiocese of Washington
• Comfort & Consolation: Questions to Consider Now & At the Hour of Our Death  – MCC

• Organize a Blessing of the Sick.