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Practical starting points.
A curated set of free resources to help you begin the conversations, prepare the documents, and share what matters, before you have to.
Free letter templates for the conversations that matter
Three of the most important conversations to have while there’s still time, and three letter templates that make them easier to start. These are provided by Proveda, the organisation behind the national Dying to Know Day campaign. Free to download and adapt.
Making the first conversation easier
Two gentle tools to help you begin, one for the values that matter to you, and one for the children in your life.
Documenting your health wishes
An Advance Care Directive is the legal document that records your medical treatment preferences, what you would and wouldn’t want, if you become too unwell to speak for yourself. Completing one is one of the most direct ways to spare your family from having to guess.
Dying to Know 2026: a Proveda initiative
Dying to Know is a national campaign developed and run by Proveda, inviting Australians to prepare for the inevitable, not with fear, but with purpose, care, and a sense of legacy. Proveda’s 2026 theme is Nobody Knows: The Secret I’m Glad I Shared. All the resources on this page are provided by Proveda.
Meet the people in the room
The people contributing to this series are established Sydney practitioners in their fields. Each is personally curated for their fit with the topic they’re speaking to. You’re welcome to reach out to any of them directly if their work seems relevant to your circumstances.
Comfort Care Cases: the work behind this conversation.
For more than eleven years, our Comfort Care Cases programme has provided comfort resources for children facing the end of life at Sydney Children’s Hospital, supporting families, quietly, through the hardest days they will ever know. That work taught us something we carry into this one: the families who had talked things through and written their wishes down were spared a second layer of pain on top of their grief; the ones who hadn’t were left guessing in the middle of a crisis. Dying to Know brings that lesson upstream. The programme was published in the Journal of Palliative Care in 2019 and, in 2025, was awarded Second Place in the Signature Project Awards at the Kiwanis International Convention in Pittsburgh. The Sydney club turns 40 this year.
Bring these resources into the conversation.
The templates and directives on this page are the starting point. At our next monthly session, from 6.00pm AEST, join us for the conversation, free, online, and no lecture.
Part of the national Dying to Know Day campaign, run by Proveda. The people in the room are Sydney-based professionals, personally curated for the conversation.