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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…

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…

A Dress Rehearsal for Our Deaths: Yom Kippur asks us to look our mortality in the face. Can we sustain the stare? Read more here > 

This New York Times article explains the common end-of-life symptoms.

An update on the End of Life Options Act in Colorado (Proposition 106): December 16, 2016. Colorado has become the sixth state to allow terminally ill adults with six months or fewer to live and suffering unbearable the option to…