Sacred Order:
Legacy Series Book One
A Gentle Guide to End-of-Life Planning
What if preparing for death could be an act
of profound love rather than paralysing fear?
A tender, wise companion that weaves the practical with the profound.
By Ajanta Judd, writer, poet and end-of-life consultant
Paperback · ISBN 9798278555179 · Ajantas Cave Press
Who this book is for
Newly Diagnosed
A roadmap through overwhelming decisions.
The Quick Start Guide offers immediate steps, and chapter by chapter you build your plan at a pace that honours your emotional capacity.
Supporting a Loved One
How to have difficult conversations with grace, balance truth-telling with compassion, and navigate family dynamics around inheritance and decision-making.
Seeking Conscious Living
How confronting mortality enriches life, how preparation becomes meditation, and how organising your affairs is an act of generosity to those you leave behind.
What's Inside
This is not your typical estate planning manual. Between the legal frameworks and practical tools you'll find poetry, personal reflections, spiritual inquiry and Buddhist-informed wisdom offered with humility, never dogma.
Sacred Order is a living book, continually updated to reflect changing laws, costs and resources.
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Wills, powers of attorney and advance care planning
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Estate management and funeral arrangements
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Letting go of possessions, crafting a legacy and supporting loved ones through loss
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The Affordable Farewells Appendix: natural burials, cardboard coffins, home funerals and cremation alternatives, with current Australian pricing, state by state
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Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, Indigenous and secular perspectives
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Checklists, rituals, poetic interludes and a Quick Start Guide, with stories from Ajanta's work as an end-of-life consultant
'Because preparing well for death is also learning to live more fully.'
FROM SACRED ORDER
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Ajanta Judd
Ajanta is a poet, writer, end-of-life consultant and Buddhist chaplain. Her work as a death doula, and decades of Theravada Buddhist practice, shape a gentle, honest approach to the end of life: one that turns fear into calm, compassionate preparation.
Sacred Order: The Legacy Series
BOOK ONE ·
AVAILABLE NOW
A Gentle Guide to End-of-Life Planning
BOOK TWO ·
COMING SOON
The Soul & Spirit
Dying Journey
BOOK THREE ·
COMING SOON
Studies in Death
& Dying
BOOK FOUR ·
COMING SOON
Animals:
The Dying Journey
BOOK FIVE ·
COMING SOON
Grieving on the
Periphery