At The End of Life: Ellen Goodman is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and activist. After her mother’s death, Goodman, co-founded The Conversation Project—an organization “dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care.”The Conversation…
The Atlantic: A 2012 report from the California HealthCare Foundation found that, while 80 percent of people said that if they were seriously ill, they’d want to discuss their end-of-life options with their doctor, only 7 percent had…
USA Today: Talking about serious illness and death is hard. That’s why so few people do it. But it’s important. That’s why there’s a growing movement to get more of these conversations going among families and…
Daily Democrat: While 82 percent of Californians say it is important to have end-of-life wishes in writing, only 23 percent of us have done so, according to a poll by the California HealthCare Foundation. And that…
Wicked Local: As the director of the Beverly Council on Aging and Senior Community Center, I am an advocate of finding a way to have “the talk” with our older parents, relatives or neighbors. In…
The Huffington Post: TARA: The first thing I wanted to ask you about is a quote that comes from one of your columns that just made me exclaim, ‘how does she just capture the spirit…
