ABC Health and Wellbeing: Death is a lot like birth. Sometimes it’s a peaceful, even beautiful event that goes according to plan. Sometimes it’s a horrible bloody mess that is utterly beyond all control. Most of…

Wicked Local Cambridge: Harriet Warshaw, executive director of the Conversation Project of Cambridge — a national public engagement campaign supporting “respectful end-of-life  care,” participated in a committee hearing, “Renewing the Conversation:  Respecting Patients’ Wishes and Advance…

End of Life Blog: I have three areas of concern about Advance Care Planning. First is the continuing lack of Medicare payment for end of life discussions with an individual’s physician. There is some hope that…

GigaOM: End-of-life care may not be the most uplifting topic, but a group of startups see their tools as a way to help people take control of their circumstances and make sure their voices are heard…

The New York Times: Earlier this week, I mentioned two of the more absorbing blogs I’ve come across recently, other corners of the online world where people are talking about aging and caregiving and the final…

Public Insight Network: There’s this idea of the “perfect death.” It usually involves living to a ripe old age without experiencing cognitive or physical impairment. Then one day, preferably immediately after engaging in a favorite activity,…