The Conversation Project

We know it’s hard. Not everyone is comfortable talking about their wishes for how they want to live until the very end. And, we know that values-based conversations about what matters most to people are…

Are you one of the hundreds of groups preparing to participate in Conversation Sabbath between October 24th  and November 3rd? Are you looking for ideas on where to start (or what Conversation Sabbath is all…

There is no better time than now—with me in my 69th year—to make clear to all of you how I want to spend the last few years, months, weeks and days of my life on…

Justin Sanders, MD, MSc, is a palliative care physician at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and is an associate faculty with the Ariadne Labs Serious Illness Care Program. Sanders has observed…

The team working on The Conversation Project sometimes notes that it would be more appropriate to call our initiative “The Conversations (emphasis on the plural) Project” rather than The Conversation (singular) Project. After all, people…

Sometimes the most important end-of-life conversations don’t happen out loud. That was one of the revelations I had after leading a Conversation Starter Kit workshop at a church in a suburb west of Boston last…