The death of my father ten years ago, when I was 34 and he was 59, was the most wrenching and life-changing process I had ever experienced.  Amazing how death happens to everyone, to every…

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a video worth a million? Whether on our TVs, a movie screen, computers, or smart phones… videos are everywhere. The ability to convey an emotional…

For this week’s Talking Matter’s blog post we bring you a Q & A featuring our amazing Executive Director Harriet Warshaw. With more than forty years of experience in the healthcare field, Warshaw has worked…

Making New Year’s resolutions is easy. Keeping them is the hard part.  The things we resolve to change in our lives generally involve our failures; getting in shape, stop smoking or drinking, or to get…

If you took public transportation in Boston this fall, we hope that you saw the ads from our PSA Campaign. We launched the campaign in October with the goal of normalizing conversations about end-of-life care, connecting…

Advisor to The Conversation Project Atul Gawande’s book, Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, is an incredible exploration of the medical industry, aging and death in America. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Katherine…