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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!

Death over dinner
Dinner Hosts Wanted!
Posted on 03/01/2016

In celebration of National Health Care Decisions Day, The Conversation Project and Death Over Dinner are teaming up once again to challenge Americans to fill their table with comfort food, family, and friends – to…

Ellen Goodman screenshot

For this week’s Talking Matter’s blog post we bring you a special Q&A video featuring Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist and founder of The Conversation Project, Ellen Goodman. We sat down with Ellen to have her…

When Breath Becomes Air book cover

A few months ago, a Twitter follower asked us for recommendations on books about death and end-of-life care. The search for great recommendations led us to some tremendous reads that we’ve compiled here to share…

The Doctor and The Jazz Singer
Posted on 02/02/2016

What can a doctor do when there is “nothing left to do?”  At the end of Dolly Baker’s life, one doctor asked a question that made all the difference to her, to her care providers…