As my father passed away in a nursing home on Christmas Eve a few years ago, I’m donating our blog today as part of the Engage With Grace Blog Rally.

Although we had some of these conversations with my father, I wish we’d had them all.  I would have much preferred to be with him when he passed.  Instead, we were all far away, planning to see him later in the week.

Here’s more on the project and what you can do:

What if we took a brief moment to ask that most un-askable question: what would you want to happen in the case of serious or terminal illness? Wouldn’t it be so much better if you’d had the chance to speak with your loved ones in advance, and had recorded their and your wishes about end of life care in a safe and secure place? That place is http://www.engagewithgrace.org.

Engage with Grace is a movement – a movement with one simple goal: help ensure that all of us can end our lives in the same purposeful way in which we live them. It takes advantage of one thing – the fact that most of us do a lot of talking. So it asks you one thing: Download this One Slide – One Slide with just five questions…five questions designed to get the conversation about end of life care started – with each other, with our loved ones. Just One Slide – just five questions.

Here is what we are asking you: Download The One Slide (available at www.engagewithgrace.org). Share it any time you can – at the end of presentations, at dinner, at your book club. 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’s start a viral movement driven by the change we as individuals can effect…and the incredibly positive impact we could have collectively. Donate just two minutes to adding just this One Slide to the end of your presentations. Get others involved.

Help ensure that all of us – and the people that we care for – 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.

Have a great Thanksgiving with your families.