PBS News Hour— A growing national movement to normalize end-of-life discussions among family and friends has gained traction in recent months. As Medicare considers whether to cover such conversations with physicians, The Conversation Project, a Boston-based…
During my year so far, I have been struck by the advanced discourse here in the US about compassionate deaths. In the US, there is a major initiative to have “the conversation.” This is a…
NBCnews.com: Thee feud that’s split Glen Campbell’s loved ones amid his decline from Alzheimer’s disease strikes a chord with other U.S. families as dementia diagnoses fuel similar money spats and jealousies, leaving lasting wounds, experts say….
The Nation Resolves to Talk About Death in the New Year during Dinner Series Death as dinner conversation? You bet. For a second consecutive year The Conversation Project teamed up with Death Over Dinner to…
The Baltimore Sun- It isn’t what she imagined for what Baby Boomers like to call “a post-career career.” But Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman finds herself talking to people about dying. Specifically, about dying the way…
U-T San Diego– Pass the peas and the awkward silences, please. On the menu the first week of 2015 for thousands of American families is the tricky — some would say distasteful — topic of end-of-life…
