TALKING ABOUT DEATH WON'T KILL YOU

A practical and compassionate guide to end-of-life conversations.

Kathy Kortes-Miller is an unconventional death educator and researcher with a passion for palliative care and improving the end-of-life care for all. She is a cancer survivor and as a palliative care provider whose life's work is to demystify the topic of death and dying. In TALKING ABOUT DEATH WON'T KILL YOU, she offers practical and compassionate guidance to navigate the conversations and planning required to ensure that we embrace living until we die with knowledge, love and understanding. The book will show readers how to identify and reframe limiting beliefs about dying. It will facilitate important conversations about end of life and, in so doing, get death out of the closet. TALKING ABOUT DEATH WON'T KILL YOU will transform the perception of dying and death from the elephant in the room to an integral part of life that deserves and demands acknowledgement, respect and even a bit of lightheartedness. It will give readers crucial knowledge about this important season in life in a way that supports them to more fully embrace their lives.

Kathy Kortes-Miller thinks about dying and death a lot! She is an unconventional death educator with a passion for
palliative care and improving the end of life care for all. Kathy has been teaching and researching at Lakehead University for over a decade inspiring and challenging the future healthcare providers of tomorrow to be prepared to care for individuals who are dying and their families in all healthcare settings. She leverages her experiences as a cancer survivor and as a palliative care provider to challenge us to have the important conversations about dying, death and life. Kathy strives to make an impact with her teaching, research, writing and speaking to discover, share and communicate the information that we are all “dying to know.” She is presently writing her first book TALKING ABOUT DEATH WON'T KILL YOU intended to transform the perception of dying and death from being the elephant in the room to an integral part of life that deserves and demands acknowledgement, respect, and even a bit of lightheartedness (when called for).