Overview:
This project was created for my thesis, through which I wanted to explore ways to help people through the grieving process. Death is a topic we do not talk about, even though it affects or will affect everyone. It is an area where there are many opportunities for us designers to intervene and offer meaningful solutions that can help people cope and raise awareness about the lack of education on the subject.
In the case of a terminal illness, conversations may revolve heavily around treatment and practical issues, but there is also a brief opportunity to express love, appreciation, regret, and anything else that needs to be said to a loved one to create a sense of closure that might ease the grieving process. However, as a society, we tend to avoid conversations about the topics of death, illness, and grief, so we often miss this opportunity and in the grieving process regret the things we did not say when we had time.