After years of work in end of life care, Mary Matthiesen was blindsided by the death of her mother. She was also filled with inspiration resulting from the conversations they had and the choices her mother made about completing her life on her own terms. In an evolution in her thinking born out of her story, Mary became impassioned about these conversations between people at the end of their lives, health care professionals and community leaders, believing that it is in the intersection between all these participants that brings a death in alignment with the person. Her epiphany, born out of both painful and beautiful experience, continues to lead her in directions she couldn't have imagined and feeds her passion to open the door on conversations about death!