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Resources:

GREEN DEATHCARE MOVEMENT

Community Deathcare Canada

Advance medical directives

What to do in the event of death

Steps you can take to prepare for death

Death and Mourning for Immigrants in Québec

Albatros Québec (french only)

The role of an Executor

If the deceased has not left a will

Who Legally Decides on After Death Care in Québec?

Association québécoise de soins palliatifs (french only)

Article on the History of Dying in the Gatineau Valley

CINDEA (Canadian Integrative Network for Death Education and Alternatives)



Legislative Acts and Regulations relevant to Deathcaring in Québec:

Funeral Operations Act

Regulation respecting the application of the Funeral Operations Act

Act Respecting Medical Laboratories, Organ and Tissue Conservation and the Disposal of Human Bodies

Regulations respecting the application of the above Act

Civil Code

Cemetery Companies Act

Act respecting prearranged funeral services and sepultures

Regulation respecting the identification, transportation, preservation or keeping, custody and return or remittal of dead bodies

Act respecting the Health and Social Services Ombudsman and amending various legislative provisions