Culture is but one generation deep. The Conversation Project heralds the way each life story may become part of the intergenerational connective tissue.

Each conversation, however, starts at the most basic individual level by assisting participants in defining their desired end-of-life care no matter how distant that might be seen from their current life stage, whether measured in terms of days, months, or decades.

Where does one even start? Some sort of go-it-alone reflection may be tempting but prove ultimately daunting without a structured approach. Our session opens the way to identify those resources that have proved so helpful to the many others who have traveled down the same path.

Joining us at our session will be Becki Parr, the project coordinator of The Conversation Project in Boulder County (TCPBC), a program of TRU Community Center, and Jean Abbott, a retired physician who practiced and taught emergency medicine for 48 years and helped start TCPBC eleven years ago. Becki and Jean will introduce the various free resources available to initiate that all-important conversation with spouses/partners, parents, children, grandchildren, close friends, and those others who might be involved in making decisions on one’s behalf. Consider this a gift to your loved ones who otherwise might be befuddled not knowing of your desires in your now-lucid state.

Becki and Jean’s introduction and the accompanying Starter’s Guide are then an invitation to explore those myriad of issues attendant to that late-stage life e.g. dementia, introduction of pharmaceuticals, and such matters as death doulas along with other sometimes-heard Boomer sentiments that may embrace the subject in terms of old age and death as simply another life-style choice MM 12/4/23 The Long Thanatopsis. Also on the table may be the rather pointed matter of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD).

Just remember how each of our individual lives, so big, so important, so forever in the present tense, may simply fade, like those of our predecessors, into the mosaic of history. Individual lives might be remembered, if at all, by a framed picture, little more than a virtual speck on some off-spring’s wall.

Join us for this session whether it be a stand-alone event or the introduction to a possible future series hosted by these caring volunteers. View it as an opportunity to write the first draft of your own story, your dreams, your own brand of wisdom.

Speak you specks!