Death By Design
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Death By Design
Kimberly C. Paul wants to radically change the way people face end of life, and she’s using her extensive experience as a storyteller to do just that. From the set of Saturday Night Live in New York City, to casting for CBS daytime, Kimberly has spent the last 17 years telling a very different kind...
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Mike Ferris
Mike Ferris is a nationally recognized expert in home care and hospice sales, marketing, and customer service. He has consulted with many of the most...

Jonathan Roberts
Jonathan is obsessed with helping others improve positive and decrease negative habits to live more fulfilling lives. As the co-founder of Evolve Uni...

Dr. Martha Calihan
A practicing physician for over 30 years, Dr. Martha Calihan blends her knowledge of Functional and Integrative medicine with the mystical and spiritu...

Andrea Lantz, MSW
Andrea is an LCSW with a unique skill set after years working in the field of palliative care and community education. She graduated from Indiana Univ...

Brad Macy, RN
The Macy Catheter was invented by Brad Macy, a veteran hospice nurse and recipient of 2013’s National Hospice and Palliative Care Nurse of the Year Aw...

Dr. Christopher Kerr
Hospice physician. End-of-life researcher. Acclaimed author of Death Is But a Dream. Death Is But a Dream, based on Dr. Kerr’s extensive research wit...

Bill Vicary
Just Call Bill specializes in providing technology services to senior adults and their families. We are the company that loves working with seniors!...

Margo Fowkes
In 2014, Margo Fowke’s 21-year-old son, Jimmy, died after an eight-year battle with brain cancer. A year later, her mother died. In 2017, the Loomis r...

Jennifer O'Brien
Jennifer O’Brien helps people talk about caregiving and end of life. She encourages compassionate, real conversation through her book, The Hospice Doc...

Ken Ross
Ken Ross, son of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, is the founder of the EKR Foundation (2006) and President (2006-2013 & 2018-Present). He also served on th...

Emma Payne, Grief Coach
Emma is a seasoned technology entrepreneur, MIT graduate, and award-winning change-agent, who started building online communities before Netscape was...


Rachel Kodanaz
“Nobody likes to sit down and listen to a talk about life’s challenges. But somehow, Rachel makes it all Okay. Her warmth and sensitivity, and especia...

Alison Jean Lester, Author
After a life marbled with exploration, academia, and domesticity, the writer Valerie Lester retired to a residential hospice and set about enjoying th...

Vicky Roncero, Reiki Master Practitioner
Vicky Roncero is a certified Usui Reiki Master Practitioner/ Instructor with a private practice, in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. She is grateful to be...

Suzanne O'Brien, RN
An End of Life Doula is a non-medical person trained to care for someone holistically (physically, emotionally, and spiritually) at the end of life. E...


Connie Ducaine - Vital Decisions
Connie Ducaine, PhD, LPC, LCADC, Senior Vice President of Strategic Solutions, Vital Decisions
Dr. Connie Ducaine is the Senior Vice President o...

Neil Beresin, Chaplain & Poet
Neil Beresin has worked with individuals and families in hospitals, hospice, schools, and private practice. Multiple lenses frame Neil's practice, inc...

Jane Duncan Rogers
Jane Duncan Rogers is an award-winning life and death coach who helps people prepare well for a good end of life. Having been in the field of psychoth...

Kathleen Vallee Stein
Kathleen Vallee Stein worked as an advocate for Medicare beneficiaries for many years. She became familiar with the Medicare Hospice benefit and the r...

Allison Gilbert
Allison Gilbert is an Emmy award-winning journalist and one of the most thought-provoking and influential writers on grief and resilience. The author...

Allison Gilbert
Allison Gilbert is an Emmy award-winning journalist and one of the most thought-provoking and influential writers on grief and resilience. The author...

Liz Eddy, Co-Founder & CEO of Lantern
“I think we need to do something about death.”
Liz lost her dad as a young kid, when her grandmother (dad’s mom) died in the winter of 2018, she...

Laura Sterner
In addition to being a wife and mother, Laura Sterner found her calling is wellness. Finding her place in life has been an evolution. For Laura, it st...

Erica Buist, Writer
Erica Buist is a journalist and writer from London, England, and the author of the forthcoming book This Party's Dead. After finding her father-in-law...

Lesleigh Tolin, Grief Specialist
As a senior adult, Lesleigh Tolin lost both of her parents. She grew up in a home where alcohol and emotional and physical abuse created ongoing chaos...

Jay Niver, Journalist and Public Relations
We are North Carolina’s only citizen advocacy Not for Profit specifically seeking enactment of Medical Aid in Dying legislation in N.C. and respect fo...

Garrick Colwell
It was April of 2017 when Garrick and the late Kinsloe Kelley Colwell, LMFT, invited over 20 Austin area healthcare professionals to meet and discuss...

Hope Edelman, Author
HOPE EDELMAN has been writing, speaking, and leading workshops and retreats in the bereavement field for more than 25 years. She was 17 when she lost...

Elizabeth Coplan
Join us for a live performance of Elizabeth Coplan's play Untold, and join Dr. Jillian Tullis, University of San Diego, to discuss communicati...

Eileen Robertson Hamra
Eileen Robertson Hamra is the woman you meet—at the gym, in the coffee shop, or dropping off the kids at school—with a story that draws you in the min...

The Connecticut Association for Home Health at Home
The Connecticut Association for Healthcare at Home is the largest member group of home health & hospice leaders championing home-based solutions as vi...

Olga Nikolajev
Olga is a death educator, certified in Thanatology, the study of death, dying, loss and bereavement. She is the founder and director of DyingMatters.c...

Patch Adams, MD
Hunter Doherty "Patch" Adams (born May 28, 1945) is an American physician, comedian, social activist, clown, and author. He founded the Gesundheit! In...

Mariah Riess, MSW
Mariah Riess tells her story:
On any given day, from my practice in Dover, MA, I speak with weight management client...

Gabrielle Elise Jimenez, Hospice Nurse, Blogger & Author
In her 40’s, Gabrielle went back to school to become a hospice nurse. She shares her difficult journey in her book “Soft Landing”. Becoming a hospice...

PartnerPlus Media & Death by Design Collaboration
It is with great excitement that we announce that Death by Design is partnering with PartnerPlus Media to enhance hospice educational materials in loc...

The Beautiful Dying Expo
Everyone has a calling. Michele Little’s happened to come her late 50's. Michele’s experiences in life, both personally and professionally, have given...