The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations
This practical handbook will equip readers with the tools to have meaningful conversations about death and dying. Talking About Death Won’t Kill You helps Canadians navigate personal and medical decisions for the best quality of life for the end of our lives. Noted palliative-care educator and researcher Kathy Kortes-Miller shows readers how to identify and reframe limiting beliefs about dying with humor and compassion. With robust resource lists, Kortes-Miller addresses advance care plans; how to have conversations about end-of-life wishes with loved ones; how to talk to children about death; how to build a compassionate workplace; practical strategies to support our colleagues; how to talk to health-care practitioners; how to manage challenging family dynamics as someone is dying; and what is involved in medical assistance in dying (MAID).
