“The most important thing is to have the conversation with the people that you love around the kitchen table and to have it early,” said Ellen Goodman, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer who founded The Conversation Project, which provides tools to help people have conversations about end-of-life issues. Before being deployed overseas for the Iraq War in 2003 , Army reservist John Morrison filled out military forms that gave instructions about where to send his family and possessions if he were killed . “ I thought , wow , this is mortality right in your face , ” Morrison , now 21 , recalled .
Before being deployed overseas for the Iraq War in 2003 , Army reservist John Morrison filled out military forms that gave instructions about where to send his family and possessions if he were killed . “ I thought , wow , this is mortality right in your face , ” Morrison , now 21 , recalled .