The Conversation Project

As summer comes to a close and you begin to reflect on all the warm days you spent with friends, family and loved ones, we encourage you to take another moment to reflect on what…

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…

…an advance directive is a way of extending my fatherly caring into a future when I will be the object of attention – and emotional distress. Envisioning such scenes, I imagine that my daughters might wish for my arm around their shoulders.

How might a clinician start learning what matters most to their patients about end-of-life care? One way is to talk about choosing a health care proxy. In this interview, Kate Lally, MD, FACP, Chief of…

Isabel Merrin was an intern for The Conversation Project (TCP) for three years while she was a Tufts University student. How did this Millennial turn her passion for promoting open end-of-life conversations into a thought-provoking…

There’s nothing in life that can’t be improved by adding pizza, and this includes conversations about death. These two concepts may seem incompatible, but breaking bread provides a safe place to share concerns and ask…