Dying Well Initiative Trends
2023 Trends
Trend 1: End-of-Life Knowledge is a Super Power
Trend 2: Changing Traditions, Shifting Priorities, and Honoring Complexity: Navigating Post-COVID Death and Grief
Trend 3: Facing Death with Comfort, Confidence, and Augmented Reality: Alternative Therapeutic Approaches to End-of-Life Care
Trend 4: Leaning into Grief and Legacy with Creativity, Technology, and Media
Trend 5: Seeking Joy, Gratitude, Meaning, and Giving as a Means of Living Longer
2022 Trends
TREND 1: The Grief Gap
TREND 2: Pre-planning IS Adulting
TREND 3: The Metaverse, Digital Graveyards and NFT’s Emerge for End of Life & Grief
TREND 4: Scaling up to Address Global Trauma, Loss, and Grief
TREND 5: A Refocus on Bereavement Leave Policies and Workplace Bereavement
2021 Trends
TREND 1: Discussing Grief in the Workplace
TREND 2: The Use of Psychedelics During End-of-Life Care
TREND 3: Racial Equality
TREND 4: Wearable Technologies
TREND 5: Popularization of Alternate Disposal Methods
2020 Trends
TREND 1: More Use of Technology during End of Life
TREND 2: Conversations about Death/End of Life Will Increase and Become Normalized
TREND 3: Green Burials on the Rise
TREND 4: The Use of Death Doulas
TREND 5: More Grief Support in Hospitality and the Workplace
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