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Unlike boomers, young people are embracing planning their own funerals. It’s fueling changes in the death industry.

Families are photographing death at home. These photos may feel jarring on Facebook, but the practice itself has a long history. “The impulse to photograph is the same as it was for the Victorians. They want to show they have…

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BJ Miller, MD, a hospice and  palliative medicine physician and former director of the Zen Hospice in San Francisco, has recently published A Beginner’s Guide to the End: Practical Advice for Living Life and Facing Death. Miller and co-author Shoshana…

In addition to high rates of disability and psychological issues, some vets facing the end of life are confronting long-suppressed memories of the traumas of war. When Brenda Hellrung’s husband, Timothy, a Vietnam veteran, needed a hospice program in June,…

In mid-August, two films related to end-of-life issues, directed and produced by Perri Peltz and Matthew O’Neill (of HBO’s “Axios”), were released by HBO Documentaries. The Crestone End of Life Project and the late Aliyah Alexander are the subject of…

Documenting the final moments between critically ill children and their families helped me come to terms with my cancer diagnosis. Read More Here

How did the Crestone End of Life Project come to be? What was involved in getting it off the ground, and how does it work? A public informational event in Crestone in late April provided clear, articulate and interesting answers…

After my near-death experience, I lost my fear of death. I didn’t expect to feel so blindsided when my son got leukemia. Read More

January 12th:  Overview of LeaveLight workshop will be offered October 12, 2019 End-of-Life Preparation Workshop Starts in January If you’ve been putting off your end-of-life preparation tasks, join us for an 8-week workshop called “LeaveLight: Rest in Peace Before You…