TALKING ABOUT DEATH WON'T KILL YOU

This is a call to action for people to become actively involved in conversations about death and take control of their own dying experience — within their community and with their healthcare providers. Noted palliative care advocate Kathy Kortes-Miller tackles our last taboo —talking openly with our loved ones about death and dying — in this groundbreaking and useful guide to handling our most difficult conversations. TALKING ABOUT DEATH WON'T KILL YOU is the guide readers need to navigate the conversations and planning required to ensure that we embrace living until we die with knowledge, love, and understanding. The book will help 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, provides the tools to have meaningful discussions with those who matter most — and feel more in control of their relationship with dying and death.

Kathy Kortes-Miller is a professor at Lakehead University, where she developed the highly regarded Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Certificate program. She regularly speaks at conferences and training events on end-of-life issues.