Collect experiences from people in your community to better understand their experience with death. There are loads of powerful perspectives out there, waiting for you to tap into them – perhaps it’s a spiritual leader, a physician, a patient, or a parent. If you’d like to embrace the full design research process, seek out an extreme user share their story with us. Take a look at our Interview Toolkit for guidance on how to get started with these conversations.
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Your loss is my loss
To see death through other's eyes
Observing a surgeon, social worker, and home caretaker.
Flying Too Close to Sun: The Emotional Toll for Healthcare Providers
Observing a surgeon, social worker, and home caretaker.
15 interviews on celebrating people meaningfully NOW, before it's too late.
Interview notes on meaningful communication and celebration might provide great inspiration for the ideas phase.
The Funeral Industry Talks About Death
Recently, Precoa (a company dedicated to prearranging funerals for all families), opened its doors and discussed the end-of-life experience.
Humans of Healthcare
We didn't set out to talk about dying when we had a new kind of conversation about health and social care, but death was always there.
"#Let'sTalkAboutDeath" Storytelling Event in Louisville, KY.
This storytelling event captured 7 diverse perspectives on death.
It's easy to have a romanticised view of the end of life experience until you've witnessed it close up
From romanticised to real
It's easy to have a romanticised view of the end of life experience until you've witnessed it close up
First Person: Noni Gachuhi, Public Health Specialist, on African Experiences and Perspectives (Video Interview)
Our traditions and our experiences with death across a society lead us to look at death differently.
One person's view on how he imagines wanting his loved ones by his side at the end of his life.
Being Reminded of Life
One person's view on how he imagines wanting his loved ones by his side at the end of his life.
OpenIDEO LA Meetup #letstalkaboutdeath stories
Persistent themes that were told and retold by people from all over the world. Death is perhaps not so individual.
Craig: Why I Chose to Be an End of Life Doula
"One performs this pure, beautiful service for another, and in the process is given a refreshed perspective on the tenuousness of it all."
How Death Makes Life Possible
Using story, media, and educational programs to transform fear of death into an inspiration for living and dying well.
Dead while still alive
Death is absence and people may be absent of their own life as well.
"Through God, all thighs are possible" Feedback-testimonies update.
I interviewed Pastor Tony Ogen Rwot,and this is what he had to say,"through God everything are possible," he made the following references:
The whole you or the good you
People's views on how they want to be remembered
Insights from a less than ideal end of life experience that lacked support when it was needed
Lack of support in the end of life experience
Insights from a less than ideal end of life experience that lacked support when it was needed
Alive but Dead
The absence, the broken bond of a loved one can feel like death, even if it is not Physical But in this burden she found her Moto
Interviewed someone with an important reflexion on death
how death taught me how to live
Interviewed someone with an important reflexion on death
On Grief and Grieving - Angel Birthdays
We think of grieving as going back to the person we were before, but it's so much more.
Thoughts about how we talk about the end of life experience when we're the ones left behind
The 'afterlife' of the end of the life experience
Thoughts about how we talk about the end of life experience when we're the ones left behind
The powerful role of photographs and memories at the end of life
An in depth ethnographic research into the design of assistive reminiscence therapy technologies using personal content in long term care.
