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Be Part of the Movement

Five Wishes has helped more than 43 million people because of people like you. Those who use Five Wishes see the value and are inspired to share it with others. After sharing it with friends and family, they bring it to their workplace, church or faith community, professional associations, boards of directors, clients, and others.

Keeping Faith at the End of Life

Five Wishes is the first widely-used advance directive to include faith and spirituality at its core. Because of that, it is distributed by churches and faith communities of all traditions. Faith leaders appreciate the opportunity to bring their expertise into the advance care planning conversation, and focus on what they know best, without need to become a medical or legal expert. Faith and spirtuality are essential parts of any advance care planning.

Faith-Based

Educating & Serving Members

Five Wishes is ideal for members of all types of associations -- professional, trade, community, and educational. Tell us about your membership, and we'll offer simple solutions to provide Five Wishes with little effort on your part.

Associations

Legal, Financial Planning, Insurance, Funeral Services

Five Wishes is the perfect value-added service to show your clients you care about their wellbeing, and to reach out to your target audience of future customers.

Professionals

Development, Alumni, Nonprofits

Do you want people to consider how they will be remembered, if they would like to make a legacy gift, or if they would like to direct memorial contributions to a specific cause? Five Wishes is a perfect compliment to development plans that depend on building relationships. Offer Five Wishes to current donors and prospects as a way to stay connected while offering a useful resource.

Legacy Giving & Fundraising
Spark the Conversation in Your Community

Spark the Conversation in Your Community

We provide everything, so you don't need to be an expert.

This booklet has tips on planning and delivering and Five Wishes community presentation. It includes tips on promoting the event, presentation outlines, and answers to common questions. It's the perfect resource to have in front of you when you speak to a group about Five Wishes.

Presenter Guide

Online, on-demand learning modules give step-by-step instructions on how to provide a Five Wishes educational session to a group. Along with the Presenter's Guide, these modules increase your knowledge and ability to assist others.

Presenter Training

Share this 18-minute video that tells the Five Wishes story, explains the importance of advance care planning for all adults, and walks through Five Wishes page by page. Post on your website, share via social media, or send as a link in an email to your members, clients, or target audience.

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Finishing Life Faithfully

Catholics and those with similar beliefs can rely on this compass to faithfully distill Church teaching in an easy-to-understand guide to making end-of-life decisions.

  • Endorsed by Church leaders
  • Useful for Catholics and others with similar beliefs
  • Perfect for families and parishes
  • Practical tips for how faith can inform advance care planning. Sourced with more than 60 footnotes.
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  • “Life Insurance is a part of the estate planning process, and having Five Wishes allows me to provide roughly $300 of legal value to a couple for a negligible cost to me. Those who complete their Five Wishes reach a state of planning maturity that only 10-20% of society will ever reach. My profession is about elevating customers’ planning maturity, and Five Wishes allows me to bring value to my relationship with my customer.”

    Mike Paffhausen

    Paffhausen Insurance Agency, Butte, MT

  • “We use Five Wishes because it is informative and clarifying, providing a structure for thinking about death and dying.”

    Rev. Gary Strichartz, Chaplain

    UMass Memorial Milford Regional Medical Center, Milford, MA

  • "Five Wishes is exactly the simple, kind and gentle version of ‘Advance Directives 101’ that people need to move forward.”

    Carrie De Martini, Founder

    Wishing Well Center, Knoxville, TN

  • “Five Wishes and Finishing Life Faithfully: A Guide for Catholics on End-of-Life Care are helpful tools that protect the right of patient self-determination and inform its exercise with the light of faith.”

    Archbishop Gregory Aymond

    New Orleans, LA