End-of-Life
Planner & Journal
A clinically informed, fillable resource for reflection, preparation, and integration — designed to help you approach the end of life with the same depth and care you bring to living.
More Than a Checklist
Most end-of-life planning tools focus on logistics — account numbers, insurance policies, who gets what. Those things matter. But they leave the most important territory untouched: what dying means to you, what you need to say before you go, and how your body, your beliefs, and your relationships shape what a good death looks like.
This planner was built differently. It integrates practical affairs with deep reflective work — guided by the same psychoanalytic, somatic, and existential frameworks used in clinical psychotherapy. Whether you are navigating a diagnosis, supporting a loved one, or simply choosing to engage with mortality while you still have time and clarity, this resource meets you where you are.
What's Inside
- Values clarification grounded in felt sense and body-based awareness — not a list you check off, but roots you discover
- Somatic reflection prompts drawn from Somatic Experiencing principles, helping you notice what your body knows about mortality
- Letters you want to write — to partners, parents, children, friends, or yourself. Letters of love, forgiveness, gratitude, or completion
- Unfinished business — guided space for identifying what feels incomplete and exploring what repair might look like
- Your wishes for dying and death — where, how, who, and what rituals, music, or silence you want present
- Comprehensive accounts and access documentation — banking, insurance, mortgages, utilities, email, social media, passwords, and digital life, with the option to record credentials directly or note where they're securely stored
- Beliefs, meaning, and mortality — space for exploring spiritual, philosophical, and existential questions about death and what comes after
- Ongoing journal pages — because your relationship to mortality is not static; it evolves as you age, love, lose, and change
Every section is fillable — type directly into the document on any device, save your progress, and return to it over weeks, months, or years.
Created by Joseph W. LaFleur Jr., LICSW, SEP, CPTAP — Clinical Director of District Counseling and Psychotherapy and the practice's only clinician holding dual certification in both Somatic Experiencing and psychedelic-assisted therapy. This planner reflects over 25 years of clinical experience in depth-oriented psychotherapy, trauma-informed care, and LGBTQ+ affirming practice.
Who This Is For
Individuals facing a serious or terminal diagnosis who want to process what is happening at their own pace, outside the demands of the medical system.
Anyone choosing to engage with mortality proactively — to clarify values, complete unfinished relational business, and ensure the people they love are prepared.
Faith communities, chaplains, death doulas, hospice workers, and pastoral counselors looking for a reflective resource grounded in clinical depth.
Caregivers and family members navigating anticipatory grief and their own end-of-life wishes.
Clients in therapy — including those working with ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (Spravato esketamine nasal spray or sublingual troches) — who encounter mortality-related material in sessions and need a structured integration tool.
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