Santa Cruz Sentinel: When interviewers asked people at the Watsonville Senior Center whom they expected to carry out their wishes for health care if they could not speak for themselves, they got different answers … Their…

The New York Times: Maybe we’ve been going about this all wrong. In the continuing campaign to get people, particularly the old and sick, to discuss their preferences for end-of-life care, we’ve been pushing for them…

Harvard Health Publications: Birth, childhood, adulthood and death span the book of life. Unfortunately, many people tend to avoid thinking or talking about how they want the final chapter to read. For the seriously ill or…

Health Cetera – CHMP’s Blog: While reading about Nelson Mandela’s current clinical status and lack of documented end of life planning, I couldn’t help but think of my disorganized, but highly necessary storage space. Death is…

The Boston Globe: IS THIS what they mean by a death watch? The father of his country, a moral icon to the world, lies in a hospital bed as cameras wait outside and newspaper headlines offer…

ABC Health and Wellbeing: Death is a lot like birth. Sometimes it’s a peaceful, even beautiful event that goes according to plan. Sometimes it’s a horrible bloody mess that is utterly beyond all control. Most of…