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“How might we provide dying patients and their caregivers precious connections to allow them to live their lives fully?”
Musicians offering their talents at the end of life, playing music and writing songs to honor the dying & the dead.
Virtual Reality can be used as an archival tool to capture meaningful moments and thereby, our legacy.
Connect with people around the globe who will cross off the bucket list items you cannot, and will share their experience with you.
Create a global, peer-to-peer learning system that taps all the experience individuals have from going through the end of life experience.
All students would learn about death & dying in school. The process can be "re-imaged" as a beautiful part of life instead of scary or sad.
Transform your corpse into a beautiful strong tree for the environment and the next generation
InMyHands is a creative way for independent types to capture and update end-of-life wishes, without navigating complex systems and forms.
Creating stories, tales and legends inspired by the lives lived by our loved ones.
Death-Ed aims to normalize and prepare our youth for the ultimate life challenge through which we will all pass.
Partnering with a community garden can lead to new opportunities to connect with nature and people, to nurture others and oneself, to live!
To insure EOL peace, comfort & safety ~ HDCR will provide the who, what, when, where, why & how of the Home Death Care process to all.
Community members would live more fully by having access to a local-centric EoL planning guide and provider list.
Use coaching that is anchored in awareness of our mortality to live each day well, so death can be okay for individuals and loved ones.
A tablet-based display allowing families to share -- and ICU providers to learn -- longitudinally, who the patient is as a person.
Sharing emotions is a way to connect people to one another, this idea uses a wearable device to show, express, share, & connect via emotions
This product would humanize transport of the deceased, by placing the body in a custom "death garment" that honors rather than dehumanizes.
Death doesn't have to signal the end of meaningful connection; connection can be found and nurtured by honoring our loved ones "wishes."
A program designed to connect a dying individual or his/her loved one with a connection to someone who can provide support and guidance
A new type of hospital space that doesn't look to replicate the home but better transitions the individual and family for change.
Help humanize patient experience, one soundscape at a time
