26 Jun NY Times: The Positive Death Movement Comes to Life

Worthwhile read! “Birth was perceived as a medical event, and then in came the women’s movement and ‘Our Bodies, Ourselves,’” she said. “It wasn’t doctors who changed the way we give birth in America. It was women who said that giving birth was a human event. I think that we’re trying to do that now. Dying is a human experience. We’re trying to put the person back into the center of the experience.” A quote from Ellen Goodman, a retired newspaper columnist who started the Conversation Project, in this great article.