The Daily Camera-  Connie Holden hosted a dinner party Sunday in Boulder to encourage her friends to talk about death. Holden, the co-founder of Boulder County’s chapter of the Conversation Project, has worked as a nurse,…

President of Teak Media, Jackie Herskovitz Russell, wrote an inspiring blog post about having “the conversation” with her family the morning after Thanksgiving. It started with the requisite joke made by my Dad. “Bury me at…

Top Chefs Help Break Bread & Taboos Dining and Discussing Death in the New Year  Seven Days, Two Organizations and One Conversation: A Movement to Encourage Meaningful Conversations about End-of-Life Care. Jan. 1-7 CAMBRIDGE, Mass….

A national, nonpartisan, committee appointed by the Institute of Medicine is calling for a major overhaul of how we treat end-of-life care in America. The committee concluded in a report released on Wednesday that, “The…

Be sure to check out this incredible photo story project by Photographer Andrew George. It captures photos of real people at the end of their lives as well as some of their wishes, hopes, dreams…

Be Smart Be Well: “Why do we have so many people who are dying in ways that they did not want to, often in ways that are more painful, more isolated than they wanted?” asks…