End of Life

This portal contains information regarding the different aspects of the end of one's life.

In Western society, talking about death,including the way a person wishes to end his life and say goodbye to those close to him, is not commonplace. Recently, though, we can see a change in society's attitude toward death and willingness to discuss death, especially with regard to the right of patients to die with dignity and to spend the end of their lives as they wish.

See also…

• Old Age and Aging
• Holocaust Survivors' Rights
• Rights Guide for Senior Citizens
• סוף החיים

Guides and Important Information

• Preparation for the End of Life
• Guide for the Family to Cope with Death and Burial
• Burial of the Dead
• Rights in the Period after the Death of a Family Member
• Settling the debts of the deceased
• Dealing with a family member's money and property after his death
• Obligation of the family to of a foreign aid worker if his employer passes away
• Severance pay to an employee whose employer passes away
• Severance pay to the next of kin of a deceased employee

Terminal Illness

• Combined Power of Attorney for General Medical Treatment and for a Terminally Ill Patient
• Registering a Living Will
• Power of Attorney to Make Decisions Regarding Medical Treatment
• Terminal Illness
• The Right to Die with Dignity
• The Right to Die with Dignity for a Minor
• The Right to Die with Dignity for a Ward
• Institutional Committee for Decisions Regarding the Terminally Ill
• National Committee for Decisions Regarding the Terminally Ill

Supportive Care (Hospice)

• Hospice
• Supportive Home Care (Palliative Care)
• Supportive Home Care for Cancer Patients
• The Right to Receive Medical Cannabis (Medical Marijuana, Medical Grass
• Wish Ambulance for the Seriously and Terminally Ill

Legal and Financial Planning

• Wills, Inheritances, and Bequests
• Post-Mortem Organ Donation (Adi Card)
• Preliminary Instructions for the Appointment of a Guardian
• Continued power of attorney in a case that a person may not be able to make decisions in the future
• Financial obligations to a foreign nursing care worker following the care recipient's death
• Donating your Body to Science
• Preparation for the End of Life

Autopsy

• Establishing Death
• Autopsy
• Family Opposition to an Autopsy
• Opening of the Grave in order to perform an Autopsy

Burial

• Burial of the Dead
• Acquiring a Cemetery Plot
• Issuing a Death Notice
• Issuing a Burial License
• Choosing a place of Burial
• Preservation of the deceased body before the burial
• Transfer of the deceased to the place of burial
• Types of Jewish Burial
• Civil Burial
• Burning the Body
• Donating your Body to Science
• Burial on the Government services and information website.

Financing Burial and Putting up a Gravestone

• Funding of Burial Services (Burial Fees)
• Funding burial expenses for post-mortem organ donors
• Burial Fees for an Israeli Resident Who Died Abroad
• Burial Fees for a Non-Jew
• Gravestone grant for Holocaust survivors
• Funding for gravestones for those disabled in the war against the Nazis
• Gravestones for Those Who Have Died Without Immediate Family

Families of Murder/Manslaughter Victims

• Murder/manslaughter victim
• Assistance centers for families of murder/manslaughter victims
• Entitlement committee for murder/manslaughter victims
• Financial assistance for families of murder/manslaughter victims
• Legal aid for families of murder/manslaughter victims
• Emotional assistance for families of murder/manslaughter victims
• Compensation for a child who became an orphan as the result of spousal murder

Family of the Deceased

• Death, survivors and compensation on the Government services and information website.
• Information from the Chevra Kadisha
• Mourning Period
• Issuance of a Death Certificate
• Handling Financial Matters After the Death of a Family Member
• Claiming the Estate of Someone Who Has Died
• Death grant for survivors
• Payment of Old Age Pension Balance to Survivors
• Requesting to Delay a Court Hearing
• Guide for the Family to Cope with Death and Burial
• Rights in the Period after the Death of a Family Member
• Financial obligations to a foreign nursing care worker following the care recipient's death
• Severance pay to an employee whose employer passes away
• Severance pay to the next of kin of a deceased employee
• Changing the Car Registration of the Deceased
• Survivors Portal
• Guide for the Event of Death at the Goverment Services and Information Portal from the Government services and information website.

Aid organizations

• The Clinical Legal Education Center - Support and Guidance Towards the End of Life
• Lilach
• Chevra Kadisha
• ITIM (Information on the English Website)

Government agencies

• The Ministry of Religious Services
• The Ministry of Health
• The National Insurance Institute

Court Rulings

• Compensation from a burial society to a woman who was discriminated against at her father's funeral
• Fulfilling the Wishes of the Deceased to Be Cremated
• The spouse of an employee who died will be considered a survivor and entitled to severance pay, only if the couple have a true family relationship

Laws & Regulations

• The Terminally Ill Patient Law
• Brain-Respiratory Death Law, 5768-2008
• Jewish Services Law
• Civil Burial Law
• Regulations of the Civil Burial Law
• Inheritance Law

Additional publications

• Death, survivors and compensation from the government services and information website.
• Guide for the Deceased's Family from the Ministry of Religious Affairs

Credits

• Original translation performed by The Shira Pransky Project as part of a grant from The Fellowship Fund.