Farewell
We all know that every life comes to an end. How and when, we don't know. Sometimes death suddenly tears loved ones from our lives. Sometimes people fall asleep after a full life. Sometimes we know of an incurable illness, perhaps with severe symptoms.
Every death and grief is different. You can obtain support, advice and help from the addresses listed here.
Hospice work stands for caring and respectful support for people in the final phase of life. It also includes the environment of the dying.
Palliative care deals with the relief of pain and other symptoms such as shortness of breath, anxiety and nausea.
The common goal is to make life worth living until the end.
Christophorus Hospice Association Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen e.V.
in Geretsried, active throughout the district
Phone:08171 999 155, e-mail: info@christophorus-hospizverein.de
Internet: Hospice Association Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen - Accompaniment with heart
The association offers voluntary end-of-life care in the home environment as well as in retirement and nursing homes or hospitals.
Hospice work includes the social environment of a sick person and offers assistance in coping with the impending farewell. If desired, the family can be accompanied beyond the death of the loved one.
The association offers individual talks, grief counseling in groups, walks, last aid courses and other services for people in mourning.
The service is free of charge and the hospice counselors are bound by confidentiality.
Opal Palliative Team
in Bad Tölz, for the districts of Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen, Miesbach and Garmisch-Partenkirchen
Telephone: 08041 79 621 0, e-mail: kontakt@sapv-im-oberland.de
Internet: https://www.sapv-im-oberland.de
The team (doctors, nursing staff, social workers, chaplains) supports patients and relatives in spending the last phase of their lives in a self-determined way and with a good quality of life in familiar surroundings.
The care provided by OPAL complements the care provided by the family doctor and possibly an outpatient nursing service.
The prerequisite for this is a prescription from a registered doctor or an initial prescription from a hospital doctor.
Information center for self-determined living and dying, Caritas
in Bad Tölz, active throughout the district
Contact person: Dorothea Büchele
Phone: 08041 79316-120; e-mail: cz-toelz-sozialdienste@cariatsmuenchen.org
Offer to talk about the topic of dying and your thoughts, worries and wishes. Information on the legal situation regarding autonomy and self-determination at the end of life
Heart's desire hospice mobile
Bavarian Red Cross, Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen district association
Schützenstraße 7, 83646 Bad Tölz
Phone: 08041 75 66-0, e-mail: info@kvtoel.brk.de
Internet: Herzenswunsch Hospizmobil - District Association Bad Tölz Wolfratshausen
We fulfill a heartfelt wish for people in the last phase of their lives.
Inpatient hospices
Hospizverein Pfaffenwinkel e.V.
Kirchplatz 3, 82398 Polling
Phone: 0881 92 58 49 -0, e-mail: verwaltung@hospizverein-pfaffenwinkel.de
Internet: Hospizverein im Pfaffenwinkel e.V.
In addition to an outpatient service, the Pfaffenwinkel Hospice Association also has an inpatient hospice. It is located on the 2nd floor of the Polling monastery. You can reach it by telephone on 0881 92 77 -20.
The Oberland Hospiz gGmbH
Löblweg 4, 83707 Bad Wiesee
Phone: 08024 477 98 55, e-mail: info@hospizkreis.de
Internet: Hospice - Hospice Circle
Bereavement café
Schützenweg 10, 83646 Bad Tölz, Protestant parish hall
Phone: 08177 8612 Mechthild Felsch
E-mail: mechthild.felsch@t-online.de
Non-denominational and free of charge
The grief cafe usually takes place on the first Monday of every month from 3 - 5 pm.
For those affected from Wolfratshausen or Geretsried who would like to take advantage of this offer, a ride to Bad Tölz can be arranged. Please call 08171 - 999 155 by 10 a.m. at the latest on the day of the grief café and leave your name and telephone number clearly on the answering machine. We will call you back shortly to confirm. The meeting point is at 2.15 pm at the market square in Wolfratshausen and at 2.30 pm at the office of the hospice association at Neuer Platz 20, Geretsried. Further information can also be found on the website of the Geretsried Hospice Association.
Open mourning group
Wolfratshausen-Waldram
Steinstraße 22 Catholic parish home of St. Joseph the Worker, 82515 Wolfratshausen-Waldram
E-mail: info@trauergruppe-waldram.de
Internet: Stadtkirche Wolfratshausen - Bereavement group
free, non-denominational, open group
Contact persons
Elisabeth Mayrhofer, Tel.: 08171 765 19
Bernahrd Pletschacher, Tel.: 08171 262 51
Angelika Bachmaier, Tel.: 08171 101 07
In the event of death
In the event of a death, personal grief often makes it difficult to think clearly about the formalities that need to be completed. The following tips may be helpful:
- Notify the doctor who will issue the death certificate.
- Notify next of kin.
- Contact the funeral home. Depending on your wishes, many arrangements can be made for you here.
- Notification of death to the registry office no later than the third working day following the death.
- Arrange a burial plot and register the funeral with the parish office, presenting the burial permit issued by the registry office, and set dates for ceremonies as well as the type and extent of the funeral.
- Notification of statutory and private insurance providers: pension insurance, life insurance, death insurance, health insurance.
- Termination of current contracts, notification of clubs, associations, organizations to which the deceased had belonged.
- Submission of the will to the probate court.
- In the event of the death of a spouse, apply for a widow's/widower's pension within 30 days.
Further links
Link to the website of the Federal Ministry for Family Affairs, Senior Citizens, Women and Youth for the magazine "letzte Wege" and further information on hospice and palliative work. The magazine offers stories about dying and care, faces of committed people and thoughts about what is important at the end.
Homepage - BHPV - Bavarian Hospice and Palliative Association
The website of the state representation of hospice and palliative work in Bavaria.