BestYouAviva.com: “No one wants to talk about it because it’s difficult,” says Jessica McCannon, M.D., a pulmonary and critical care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an advisor to The Conversation Project, an organization devoted to promoting discussions about end-of-life wishes. “Nobody wants to contemplate the end of his life or a loved one’s. But what you hear on the other side of these conversations is a lot more peace and a lot less guilt.”