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Storytelling in Grief: Honouring Connections while Celebrating Legacies
Providing invaluable opportunities for families to connect, and collectively process experiences from time of diagnosis to end-of-life
The End Game: Conversations about Life and Death
Thinking about the end actually helps us to celebrate living now
A Celebration of Life in the ICU
Too many people have their first and only encounter with their mortality in the ICU - its a cold and heartless environment by design.
Is "death" a four letter word?
Dying is tough to talk about, and we can see that discomfort in the language we use.
Rituals of Farewell
What if there were different rituals of farewell, to process different types of loss?
Death Over Dinner
In under 3 years www.deathoverdinner.org has inspired 1/2 a million people to break bread and discuss end life. Total budget: $11,000.
Music and Loss
Are the musicians, poets, and artists within us the last to go?
Family and Home Can Make Death a Bonding Experience
When a patient and their family can plan to spend last moments together, death can be a smooth and relaxing process.
First Person: Leon Rosenberg, 81, on Death as a Practical Matter (Video Interview)
How does our relationship to death change over the course of our life?
Sharing our last bowl of “long life noodles” with Grandma over WeChat
Recently, we shared our last family dinner with my Grandma in a family group chat.
Thoughts in Passing
What the dying can teach us: an audio-visual portrait project of nine Bay Area hospice patients.
After Died
I appeal to people keep away from cigarettes, cherish your life!
Social Media and Death
Social Media's role in the end of life experience and how to navigate it.
Changing the end-of-life paradigm...consider the dying as teachers
The capacity to learn is part of human intelligence, so why is it so hard to learn from end-of-life experiences?
Death on the ICU
As a Buddhist chaplain on a Medical ICU when I saw the suffering patients and families endured, I knew we had to be better.
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Celebrate Life
Time to change traditions? Or time to have [more?] conversations about options?
I’m a doctor. Preparing you for death is as much a part of my job as saving lives.
A reflection on my own medical education and what a good death might look like.
Hacking the hospital death
Empowering people to design a better dying experience when a loved one can't leave the hospital.
Having My Parents Die at Home Was a Powerful and Worthwhile Life Experience (Updated 04/17/2017 w/Multi-Media links about Home Death Care)
Home deaths are challenging, yet fulfilling life experiences. Perhaps our family's story can enlighten & provide inspiration to yours.
What Happens After 40?
This architect says it's time to design for aging starting early.
First Person: Emily McDowell on Fear and Humor (Video Interview)
How do we help when we don't know what to say?