About

"I need someone
to walk this journey with me"

Death Discourses are ongoing regularly scheduled virtual conversations about dying and death available to older adult communities throughout the country.

Conversations, limited to twenty or fewer persons, may be open-end and loosely moderated. Others may have a specific subject, article, or book, around which conversations are centered.

Interviews are also conducted with experts in all disciplines, from palliative care to medical-aid-in-dying, from what happens to a body during and after death to spiritual understandings of afterlife (sessions referred to as Death Imagined).

Our Mission

Our Mission is provide safe space for conversations about dying and death.

For too many, death is a subject to be avoided—particularly among the children of older adults.

Death Discourse allows older adults to explore their mortality: fears, preparation, anticipation and creative ways to approach the subject with their loved ones.

Our Vision

We all die. But in today’s society, a world dependent on medical miracles, a culture that says “fight ’til the end,” and a sanitized approach to death, we are constantly trying to bury and deny the truth of our mortality.

Our vision is to remove the fear and stigma associated with death.

Our Values

Aging, dying, and death should be in community rather than in isolation.

Elders represent the soul of our world, the link between our past and our future, our ancestors and our progeny.

Death ought not be feared and denied, but, long-life celebrated and the nearing of the end-of-life supported.

Rick Beeman

Rick Beeman has been a chaplain in retirement homes for nearly forty years. He has come to appreciate the contributions made by his constituents. Too many feel they have been “shelved” by society.
He is committed to documenting their stories and protecting their deaths.

Everyday Elders

Everyday Elders is devoted to relating the stories of “ordinary” seniors, not as exceptional, but important contributors to our world. People from whom much can be learned through there stories and reflections on life.

Art of Dying Well

The Art of Dying Well is committed to providing the tools and resources for people to create Advance Directives.

The process is multi-tiered: Knowing your rights, protecting your rights, designating your medical proxy, and having the “Death Talk” so many avoid.

Death Discourse

Death Discourse is the place to talk about dying, death and related issues. It is also the place to see and hear interviews with professionals about dying and death, from medical-aid-in-dying to questions of life after death.

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Your support through Patreon allows us to continue creating the materials, support,
and media resources so necessary for those needing to know and
protect their rights at the end-of-life.

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