This past weekend, I volunteered to participate with the San Diego Coalition for Compassionate Care 
in the San Diego Healthy Aging Expo
and in the San Diego Beautiful Dying Expo
Conversations About Dying
It was exciting to see that the subject of dying is becoming more and more mainstreamed.
Seeing the growing opportunities evident in the variety of settings for these conversations to happen was powerful.
Here are Several Websites to Explore
Prepare For Your Care website Offers all the critical advanced directive elements.
Five Wishes Five Wishes organization and document takes you through all the critical steps
Get Palliative Care This site provides palliative care information and resources, to help you live well with serious illness.
The Conversation Project An interactive website with creative and helpful advance care planning support. My personal favorite
Kimberly Paul TEDx talk Talks about the “elephant in the room” and promotes death by design and having a voice in how we die.
DIY Dying Offers Death Midwifery and Home funeral services and Green burial services.
Green Burials Natural burials services are available across the country in various locations. There is evidence to support this approach as an Eco friendly.
A Hopeful Thought …
As our death and dying conversations take deeper root in our communities, and are less healthcare industry dependent, …
… People can learn to see the possibilities in how to shape their deaths as their personal experience, not as a healthcare institution experience.