This is where we’d love to see stories about those who have experienced a “good death.” And, organizations or people making strides in redesigning the end of life experience. Find an article, tell us about something you heard in the news, or draw inspiration from disciplines other than healthcare to push our thinking. Inspirational stories and innovative models from around the world will help drive new approaches.
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What are the stories of dying experiences that we can pull inspiration from?
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Just Days Before Her Father Died, She Told Him What He Meant To Her
In three-minutes of audio, a father and daughter talk about how he will be remembered, love, and facing death.
After Died
I appeal to people keep away from cigarettes, cherish your life!
Obitcheery
What would you like your last outfit to be?
"Only 3% of over-80s survive CPR" - What does a dignified death look like
An excellent article by the Guardian, and campaign from NHS Wales about how we should approach CPR in EOL care situations.
Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB) & the End-of-Life Experience (or Wired For Connection)
A synthesis of how tapping into our relationally wired brains can alleviate end-of-life trauma.
Students collaborate with London hospice to 're-style' the experience of death
Discoveries made by spending 8 months investigating the experience of death and dying are human and revealing–I've highlighted them for you.
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
Wellcome Collection explores death, mortality and society
Exhibition of artefacts with death theme
Pairing youth & elderly in homes
Youth get free rent to live with elderly
An twenty-something's candid account and critique of death and the death industry working in an Oakland based crematory.
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematory. By Caitlin Doughty
An twenty-something's candid account and critique of death and the death industry working in an Oakland based crematory.
Sheryl Sandberg's Moving Commencement Talk on Death
Sheryl Sandberg's talk at the UC Berkeley Commencement highlights the power of grief to reframe life.
Atul Gawande's "Being Mortal" Changed My Life
This book helped me deal with my own mortality and how to assess what will be important to me as I begin to die
Redesigning Hospice Care
Redesigning Hospice Care
Consider the end-of-life experience for pets
We can learn from the norms that have been established for pet end-of-life experiences.
96% of people who die in La Crosse, WI have an advance directive. It's become a comfortable conversation thanks to Bud Hammes.
The Town Where Everyone Talks about Death
96% of people who die in La Crosse, WI have an advance directive. It's become a comfortable conversation thanks to Bud Hammes.
StoryCorps Legacy - A Model for Integrating StoryCorps Interviews within Hospice and Palliative Care
People ask questions and have meaningful conversations during moments of transition, & we preserve them for future generations.
My Gift of Grace
This is "a conversation game for living and dying well" to help families and friends to bring up the subject of dying and talk about it.
7 powerful photos of living out final wishes
The Ambulance Wish Foundation, a Dutch nonprofit, helps people experience one final request.
Essay: "Living in dying," a journey in finding health in incurable illness
This essay by an Australian woman with ALS describes how accepting, even embracing, illness can support health even in the face of dying.
Last Will Pill
There has been a lot of discussion about euthanasia in The Netherlands, about legally taking your own life, without doctor's assistance.
Compassionate Care
Care provided with compassion.