Seacoast Online: Have you had the conversation yet? That’s the question Ellen Goodman — a nationally acclaimed author and columnist — asks as she shares her passion for helping people talk about their end-of-life wishes and…

Forbes: As the world watches, former South African President Nelson Mandela, 94, remains hospitalized in critical condition. Amid conflicting reports and limited information from relatives and officials, many observers believe he is on life-support equipment ……

Politico: From a bedside in an ICU, NPR’s Scott Simon tweeted his mother’s final days. He’s joined a wave of Baby Boomer journalists who are writing about modern death as naturally as a younger cohort writes about…

Santa Cruz Sentinel: When interviewers asked people at the Watsonville Senior Center whom they expected to carry out their wishes for health care if they could not speak for themselves, they got different answers … Their…

The New York Times: Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong. In the continuing campaign to get people, particularly the old and sick, to discuss their preferences for end-of-life care, we’ve been pushing for them…

Harvard Health Publications: Birth, childhood, adulthood and death span the book of life. Unfortunately, many people tend to avoid thinking or talking about how they want the final chapter to read. For the seriously ill or…