Bart Windrum

Dr. Bart Windrum, a lay person, became an end-of-life reform advocate after proxying through his parents’ sudden hospitalized demises in 2004 and 2005. Bart’s focus is on helping civilians identify, assess, mitigate and overcome the range of prevalent everyday obstacles to peaceful dying.Recognized and endorsed by ethicists, doctors, nurses, policymakers, spiritualleaders, healthcare think tanks, visionaries and citizen activists, Bart’s bodyof work includes: the (unadopted) state initiative The Option to Die in PEACE;the award-winning book Notes from the Waiting Room: Managing a Loved One’s End-of-Life Hospitalization; the TEDx talk Dying IN Peace to Die AT Peace: NewTerms of Engagement; the Never Say Die Rap; the JoPM article It’s Time to Account for Medical Error in Top Ten Causes of Death Charts; the thanatological work Windrum’s Matrix of Dying Terms™, curating the Facebook page To Die inPeace: Overcoming Obstacles; and the in-depth program To Die in Peace: Rights of Passage.