• When we, or our clients, think about the topic of death and dying we most often gravitate towards the most common images of those words: grave/burial/cremation and the like. However, do those ideas simply identify an abrupt “end point” over which our clients have no control? Is there a place where we are able to facilitate a different kind of therapeutic conversation around the “before” of death? I’m not talking about the hours before, I am thinking years before. Could our clients live their lives right now and make decisions while they are still living and breathing to maybe, just maybe, make that “end point” less scary? Less traumatic? Is there a way that we can gently guide them to “finish their business?” Do they leave behind a
mess? A masterpiece? Does it matter to them?