Physician-assisted death or Medical Aid in Dying (MAID) is legal in eight jurisdictions, including Colorado. Kim Mooney of Practically Dying, demystifies the law, which is in its second year. Listen […]
What is a Death Café? I’m honored to be quoted in the Considerable.com article, How to die the way you want, by Randi Hutter Epstein. What is a death café, you ask? Death […]
In 1969, psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross published her seminal book On Death and Dying. She brought into popular consciousness the model of the Five Stages of Grief, gleaned from conversations she […]
Why don’t we understand grief? Why isn’t it easy to just admit we’re grieving and help each other? Today we often don’t recognize it for what it is – even […]
Greenwood and Myers Mortuary has built their business on their family values. As Mike Greenwood told me, “You see the same faces all the way through our time together – […]
Your most important resolution might be to remember that you have no guarantee that you’ll have another whole calendar year in you. What’s the first thing we do at the […]
The Conversation Project, in Boulder County was formed in 2013, based on the nationally-acclaimed work of Boston Globe columnist and author, Ellen Goodman. Her project took root after she had […]
I was thrilled to be able to meet with other death educators, all using different modalities and innovative practices with different audiences. ADEC has been my professional home since 1994. […]
My field is working with death and grief. “Isn’t it morbid?,” people ask at parties. “Aren’t you sad all the time?” All the time, no. When I’m living through a […]
In September 1945, the late American author Ray Bradbury agreed to serve as “navigator” for a two-month auto trip into the heart of Mexico with his friend Grant Beach. His […]
DENVER POST: Voting for aid in dying was easy, but one Colorado couple struggled toward a graceful death A year ago in November, when Susan and Kurt Huschle cast their […]
