Consider The Conversation
KCPT and the Center for Practical Bioethics present a powerful new film examining how doctors, patients and family members struggle to communicate and adequately prepare for life's final journey...death.
Related Articles
Myra Christopher, former president and CEO of the Center for Practical Bioethics, is among the experts quoted in this issue brief, “Advance Care Planning: Ensuring Your Wishes Are Known and Honored If You Are Unable to Speak for Yourself."
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Audio Interview:
Barbara Bollier, MD, and Lauren Douville discuss Caring Conversations for Young Adults, designed to help young adults facilitate a conversation about their end-of-life wishes if unable to speak for themselves, seriously ill or facing the end of life.
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Audio Interview:
Ira Byock, MD, discusses the topic of his book, The Best Care Possible: A Physician’s Quest to Transform Care through the End of Life, and why he believes the way Americans die in this country is a national disgrace.
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Death Cafes: Discussing death, and especially life
On a Wednesday evening in October, about 20 people gathered in a St. Joseph, Missouri, coffee shop to talk about death. It's called a Death Cafe, and it's part of an international movement to get people talking about death and dying. It started in the U.K.
Downloadable Toolkits
Caring Conversations Workbook
Caring Conversations® is designed to guide you, your family and your friends through the process of advance care planning. Each copy of Caring Conversations includes a healthcare directive form and a durable power of attorney for healthcare form.
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Caring Conversations FAQs
Advance Care Planning is a tender subject that has its own language which may sometimes be confusing. Caring Conversations FAQs is a concise collection of the most frequently asked questions to help understand the basics of this important process.
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Caring Conversations for Young Adults
The Center’s Caring Conversations for Young Adults workbook provides a starting point for young adults and their families to talk about topics like organ donation, do-not-resuscitate orders and serious illness.
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Conversation Starter Kit from the Conversation Project
It’s not easy to talk about how you want the end of your life to be. But it’s one of the most important conversations you can have with your loved ones.This Starter Kit will help you get your thoughts together and then have the conversation.
This isn’t about filling out Advance Directives or other medical forms. It’s about talking to your loved ones about what you or they want for end-of-life care. Whether you’re getting ready to tell someone what you want, or you want to help someone else get ready to talk, we hope the Starter Kit will be a useful guide.
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