The key to ensuring that everyone’s end-of-life wishes are respected is ensuring that healthcare providers are equipped with the knowledge, skills and resources necessary to respect the wishes of their patients’. Check out this piece that offers 6 helpful resources for healthcare providers who are dedicated to honoring the values of their patients’.

If you are in Paris, Texas or Paris, France, and you get word that I am near death, please do not feel that you need to rush to my bedside.  You’ve always been “there” for me in life, and that’s what matters to me.

It’s important to ask a loved one specific questions about their end-of-life wishes so they can be acted on, but the most important part of the discussion for me was the chance to have a heart-to-heart discussion with him. I will cherish hearing priceless stories about his life — and, in turn, my family’s life — for a long time. I hope when I’m his age I, too, can say with confidence, “I’ve had a pretty good life.”

This past April, The Conversation Project produced and helped develop a multitude of new resources designed to further our initiative of ensuring that everyone, everywhere expresses their end-of-life wishes and that their wishes are respected….

Dear Reader, Over the years, we’ve learned that one of the most powerful ways someone can express their wishes is through writing a letter. That’s why we are encouraging everyone to write by snail mail…

Katy Butler is a New York Times bestselling author, journalist and prominent end-of-life speaker. Her post is adapted from her  new book, “The Art of Dying Well: A Practical Guide to a Good End of…