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<\/a>This is my contribution to a blog rally* in support of Engage With Grace.<\/span> Thank you <\/span>Paul<\/a>, for the pointer\u2026<\/span>
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Engage With Grace<\/span><\/p>\n By Alexandra Drane and the Engage With Grace team.<\/em><\/p>\n We make choices throughout our lives \u2013 where we want to live, what types of activities will fill our days, with whom we spend our time. These choices are often a balance between our desires and our means, but at the end of the day, they are decisions made with intent. But when it comes to how we want to be treated at the end our lives, often we don\u2019t express our intent or tell our loved ones about it. This has real consequences. 73% of Americans would prefer to die at home, but up to 50% die in hospital. More than 80% of Californians say their loved ones \u201cknow exactly\u201d or have a \u201cgood idea\u201d of what their wishes would be if they were in a persistent coma, but only 50% say they\u2019ve talked to them about their preferences.But our end of life experiences are about a lot more than statistics. They\u2019re about all of us. So the first thing we need to do is start talking. Engage With Grace<\/a>: The One Slide Project<\/em> was designed with one simple goal: to help get the conversation about end of life experience started. The idea is simple: Create a tool to help get people talking. One Slide, with just five questions on it. Five questions designed to help get us talking with each other, with our loved ones, about our preferences. And we\u2019re asking people to share this One Slide \u2013 wherever and whenever they can\u2026at a presentation, at dinner, at their book club. Just One Slide, just five questions. Lets start a global discussion that, until now, most of us haven\u2019t had.Here is what we are asking you: Download The One Slide<\/a> (that\u2019s it above) and share it at any opportunity \u2013 with colleagues, family, friends. Think of the slide as currency and donate just two minutes whenever you can. Commit to being able to answer these five questions about end of life experience for yourself, and for your loved ones. Then commit to helping others do the same. Get this conversation started. Let\u2019s start a viral movement driven by the change we as individuals can effect\u2026and the incredibly positive impact we could have collectively. Help ensure that all of us \u2013 and the people we care for \u2013 can end our lives in the same purposeful way we live them. Just One Slide, just one goal. Think of the enormous difference we can make together.<\/p>\n