The Conversation Project co-founded by Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Goodman in 2012, is a public engagement initiative of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, a not-for-profit organization that is a leader in health and health care improvement worldwide. Their goal is both simple and transformative: to help everyone talk about their wishes for care through the end of life, so those wishes can be….
Abundant Life Palliative Care is a hospital based palliative care organization that specialises in Organ Failure but due to need, have opened our arms to everyone needing our care.
We provide holistic care including medical, psychosocial and spiritual support for the patient living with a terminal disease.
Nechama: Comforting the Bereaved
The Association of Palliative Care Centres (APCC), formerly known as the Hospice Palliative Care Association (HPCA) of South Africa, was founded in 1987 and is a registered Not-for-Profit Company (Reg. no. 1986/001887/08) in South Africa.
The APCC is an Association of accredited palliative care service providers, many of whom are known as hospices. All APCC members are accredited against the Standards for Palliative Healthcare Services that have been approved by the Council for Health Service Accreditation of South Africa (COHSASA) and the International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua).
How to Die Podcast is hosted and produced by Sean O’Connor. He is a mid-life and death coach, end-of-life companion, and soul carer. Sean also enjoys working as a writer, interactive performer, and producer of theatre in working communities.
‘To allay fears of death we need to bring it back to life’ – The over-medicalisation of death has pushed it to the back of minds. This needs to change, say experts.
An article by Claire Keeton, Senior features writer for the Sunday Times.
Crossing the Creek: A Practical Guide to Understanding the Dying Process is a book for the dying, caregivers, clinicians, family members and friends.
‘Can you design your own death?’ – We’re all going to die. Yes, you too — and this very moment is not soon to start accepting it
An article by Sean O’Connor for Sunday Times
Sean O’Connor talks about the Report of the Lancet Commission on the Value of Death, recently featured in the Daily Maverick. The article encourages the fact that we clearly have much to talk about – Death is part of life, not something that happens at the end of it.
Sean O’Connor is a writer, performer, memorial service celebrant and end-of-life carer. He hosts the ‘How To Die’ podcast at www.howtodie.co.za,
‘Embracing bold new perspectives in preparing for a sacred death’ – An old friend who is dying feels the journey should be filled with reverence and awe.
An article by Bridget Hilton-Barber for Daily Maverick