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When You Die Sits Down with Dr. Jessica Zitter

This doctor wants to keep you off the ‘end of life conveyor belt’ where, she warns, most wind up.

Día de Los Muertos As Told By Instagram

They say this time of year is when the veil between the two worlds

Twilight: A Fantasy Photo Diary of Death

Photographer Urszula Kluz-Knopek transformed the paralyzing fear of her parent’s death into a transcendent

Of Death, Humor & Chickens

Somewhere along the line, I developed this theory that all jokes are simply little brushes with death. Man walks down the street whistling, slips on a banana peel and falls. He’s strolling along, ‘I wonder where you get a good sandwich around here’ and smack! He finds himself face to face with his mortality; bruising tailbone, and ego, alike.

Have You Met BJ Miller?

We don’t want to diminish how much palliative care physician BJ Miller’s TED

Plan for Death As Though It’s a Birth

Sheila Kitzinger was a “champion of women’s rights in childbirth.” She spent her career pioneering birth plans that secured choice and autonomous control for women giving birth.

How to Say Good-Bye

What does it mean to offer words of candour, reassurance and love when we’re communicating with those who are facing the end of their lives?

End of Life Doula

“There is nothing on Earth – nothing inevitable, anyway – that we are prepared for less than death, and I just don’t understand why that is. Where is our guidance for this? This thing that every single one us will have to face?”