The Huffington Post: Clearly I need to have The Conversation with myself even before having it with my children. They have already made it clear that they don’t want to go there, especially since their…

WBUR Here & Now: There’s a subject most of us say is extremely important: making sure our family is not burdened by difficult end-of-life decisions. A recent survey by the California Health Foundation found that…

The Huffington Post: Few of us die in our own beds now. Modern medicine keeps many of us living longer, and then some of us die by inches, in an ICU or on a ventilator,…

CNN: Ellen Goodman and her mother talked about every subject under the sun, except one: how her mom wanted to live out the end of her life. From time to time, when somebody they knew…

The Association for Patient Experience: The Conversation Project, headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and launched and co-founded by journalist and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Ellen Goodman, grew out of Goodman’s experience with her mother’s death. “My mother…

Itineraries: Once or twice when we heard about a relative or friend who was comatose or on a feeding tube, she would say, “If I’m like that, pull the plug.” But, of course, when the…