“I’d like to tell you how such conversations have allowed me to survive, and live well.” I love life, which is why I think we should talk about death, or at least feel that we can. Our mortality can be terrifying. To bring our attention to its...
Let’s talk about death. The American Medical Association recently created billing codes for end-of-life conversations between patients and their health care providers. Euphemistically these are sometimes referred to as “advance care planning,” as if it were a chat...
