I feel humbled to realize that just by reposting an immensely articulate and heartfelt article about an extremely timely subject with a new title and tiny introduction to set it in context — this outpouring! More each day. Tens of thousands more. Over 5000 per hour this morning. Please do read the commentary it has inspired. To me, the response feels like a dam is bursting. Let’s intend that this intense collective responsiveness jumpstart a movement towards conscious dying, including what we might call “deathing” centers for those who feel their own lives drawing to a close and wish to decide and enact their own leave-taking from this precious world.

How we used to die; how we die now.