End-of-Life University Ep. 517 Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living with Diane Button
Learn about a heartwarming book of end-of-life teaching stories about the “little things” that make life meaningful.
My guest Diane Button is an end-of-life doula, a founding partner of the Bay Area End-of-Life Doula Alliance in Northern California, and an instructor for the University of Vermont’s End-of-Life Doula Professional Certificate Program. She has been a NEDA board member and a hospice volunteer and is the author of the newly published book What Matters Most: Lessons the Dying Teach Us About Living. She discusses the book and the importance of storytelling and legacy projects. Learn more at her website:
This episode includes:
- What inspired Diane to write this book
- Why storytelling is important as we help our society become more death aware
- The Joy Counter and other stories from the book
- The value of “the little things” of life to help us create meaning
- Why legacy projects are helpful as we approach the end of life
- How Diane helps people create their own legacy projects
- What is the “Final Checklist”
- Who can benefit from reading this book
- How this work has impacted Diane’s life
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