The Conversation Project

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…

“If I ever end up like that, just let me go,” my dad declared. “I don’t want anything to do with a feeding tube or any of that nonsense.” My father’s statement about his grandmother…