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Welcome to Talking Matters, a blog featuring updates, stories, and interviews from The Conversation Project. Check back each week for a new post!

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Tracy Grafton, a hospice and palliative care social worker at Hackensack Meridian Health @ JFK Medical Center in central New Jersey, has always been passionate about end-of-life care. For almost a decade, she’s set up…

It’s because I love you…
By Susan E. Ruddy-Maysonet RN BSN, 04/24/2018

This poem by Susan Ruddy-Maysonet was written to celebrate National Healthcare Decisions Day 2018! Enjoy!

Having The Conversation – Once Is Not Enough
By Susan Ducharme Hoben, 04/02/2018

Susan Ducharme Hoben is the author of Dying Well: Our Journey of Love and Loss, a memoir about an uplifting end-of-life journey that offers a thought-provoking perspective on dying.

A Gift from My Mom, the Conversation Queen
By Patty Webster, 11/08/2017

April Fools’ Day and May 1st will always be embedded in my head and heart as the two days when the earth shifted beneath my feet. My mom unexpectedly had a stroke on April 1…