Denise Carson

Denise Carson, MS, is an award-winning author of Parting Ways and expert in new ways to approach end of life care, dying, death and grief. For more than a decade, she has guided patients, families, hospice caregivers, and communities to create new practices that invite acceptance, familial healing and celebration to an alienated stage of life.The California Hospice and Palliative Care Association awarded Carson and Hospice Care of the West the Outstanding Program Achievement for Advancing End-of-Life Care. The award recognizes an individual and innovative hospice program that is a model for other hospices and end-of-life care providers.

Spending time at the bedside with patients, she discovered that video recording your life stories, living wakes, vigils, last wish celebrations and eco-friendly burials inspire individuals to pass on their life's wisdom with dignity to next generation. Carson wrote a column for the Orange County Register reporting personal stories about individuals rewriting how we live in life's last chapter. The columns are archived on www.denisecarson.com. Her blog Ourlifecelebratons.com is a resource for patients, families, caregivers and end-of-life care professionals facing dying, death and grief.