When one's eyes are filled to excess with beauty and light, it is voluptuous to close them.
Victor Hugo, The Toilers of the Sea
To die, an action verb
that implies being alive.
What if the art of living also meant knowing how to die well?
The Guardian Angels Foundation is a charity.
Our Purpose
To make sure that no one dies alone or feeling isolated.
Our Goal
To restore death and the process of dying to their rightful place and role as a nourishing experience at the heart of life.
Our Four Pillars
Support – Training – Spiritual Legacy – Research & Development
Our Mission
To watch over. To comfort. To inspire.
The Guardian Angels Foundation is committed to transforming the collective view on the end of life by focusing on community engagement, social education, and civic participation. It mobilizes citizens, caregivers, and institutions to ensure that no one dies alone or isolated, and that end-of-life care is recognized as a matter of social justice, dignity, and shared responsibility.
Through training, awareness-raising, and the dissemination of knowledge drawn from on-the-ground experience, the Foundation contributes to raising social awareness about the universality of the end of life experience and the essential role of caregivers. It also exerts influence on institutional circles and public decision-makers to advance practices and policies that are more humane, inclusive, and respectful of the dignity of all.
Watching over the dying
Watching over, Consolation, Awareness - in respect to the experience of one's end of life.
We work to enhance the experience of the person in dire need of care, regardless of age, gender, economic status, culture, or location.
Training
We support caregivers, loved ones, volunteers, healthcare professionals, and social service workers through training focused both on the end-of-life experience and on its impact in terms of compassion fatigue, vicarious stress, and operational trauma.
Beyond hope... Peace
We strive to legitimize dying as a crucial and often overlooked and under appreciated phase of life so that it regains its existential coherence at the very heart of humanity, where the mystery of death embraces every individual and every culture as they evolve into the ongoing miracle we call Life.
Presence
We stand by the person, providing care during their final days and supporting them through this experience.
As Guardian Angels, we protect those nearing the end of life by safeguarding their dignity.
Training
Wisdom is a vehicle for competence.
For us, wisdom is carved out of experience and awareness.
The Foundation trains volunteers, caregivers, as well as professionals and institutions. Since every experience is unique, the wisdom at the heart of our expertise enables us to create tailored training programs.
The Little Glimmer
Grieving Self: a project of creation, expression, and transmission as a way to inner peace.
Creating legacy, giving shape to feelings and emotions through creativity. Setting imagination free while making the anticipation of the end of life into something of both substance and sustenance, something to bequeath while cultivating coherence and inner peace.
The fruits of creative wisdom as a gift to posterity. The Little Glimmer is a multimedia gallery that collects, protects, and makes accessible what the experience of the end of life makes possible to create, share and offer.
Research and Development
Because the future is still full of things to learn.
We explore the cusp where subjective sciences and objectives sciences converge. We endeavour in the hopes of better appreciating what the favorable existential experience of the end of life may offer beyond fear, pain and loneliness.
In terms of leadership, the Foundation seeks to create bridges between such fields as neurosciences, phenomenology, arts, health, education, social sciences, medicine, and spiritual care... As well as many other paradigms in convergence with economics, legislation, and policy.
Necessity is a call for action!
Every donation is an act of kindness.
Your contribution allows us to train Guardian Angels, to give shape to the end-of-life experience and substance to wisdom—an experience where “living well” translates into “knowing how to die well.” By acting with humanity and generosity, you help enhance the quality of the end-of-life experience.
Being present means being involved!
The Foundation needs your vitality. Whether you are an active or retired professional, a volunteer, a caregiver, or simply a curious individual, your involvement will create a positive impact on someone's end of life - maybe your own. Beyond volunteering, we also offer professional opportunities in developing projects.
Latest News
Launching the Foundation
August 26, 2025
Pilot projects in the Lower St. Lawrence region
August 26, 2025
