Chelsea Update: Arbor Hospice is teaming up with St. Paul United Methodist Church on Tuesday, April 16 to offer advice about the difficult discussions surrounding end-of-life decisions. In observance of the 6th Annual National Healthcare Decision Day, the non-profit and…
The Family Plot Blog: An entertaining and educational weekly online radio show, A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don’t Plan to Die, debuts on RockStarRadioNetwork.com Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at 6:00 p.m. ET / 5:00 p.m….
The Huffington Post: Preparing for death is as simple as having a conversation with the right people at the right time. The right people are those whom you will trust to understand what you want and…
The Tampa Bay Times: Seven in 10 Americans say they want to die at home. Yet 7 in 10 of us die in hospitals. Even more of us — 82 percent — say it’s important to…
WBUR: My dad, Charlie Ritz, has given me countless gifts. One of the more recent ones is his willingness to talk openly about the fact that, though he’s healthy, when you’re 85 you’re not going…
The Community Foundation: Health care professionals who work with seriously ill patients can give testament to the fact that end-of-life decision-making, while always challenging, is much less difficult when patients have done advance care planning and…