Inspiration and Motivation

by Popo Sethpornpong

The inspiration for our design capstone project came from multiple factors. My grandmother has been involved with promoting the mindset for end of life and hospice care for the past decade. She has given lectures to a variety of…

Survey 1- understanding people’s thoughts about death in general

We created a survey in order to understand more about what people think about death and their knowledge about palliative care. However, we did not think about the consequences well enough before we deployed our survey…

Focusing on Hospice Care and Palliative Care

Hospice vs. Palliative:

In some settings, hospice refers to a freestanding residential care facility for people in the last weeks of life.

Interviews With Experts

We have come up with a template of questions for interviewing our experts. These questions act as a guideline for the conversation, we usually let the conversations flow naturally.

Initial Research

We first started our initial research about death in general, since we did not have a good understanding about underlying issues and opportunities regarding death. Initially, we wanted to explore this area broadly, so we tried to looked for any interesting topics regarding death by reading articles…

Our assumption, goals, priorities

This is a quick summary of assignments 2,3, and 4. These are some of the initial goals that we have for our project. These could all change as we continue to do more research on the topic.

Our value: