Hemlock Presentations/Speaking Engagements

We offer free presentations, in person or on Zoom, to community groups, churches, schools, professional organizations, and informal groups. Please contact us if you would like an expert on end of life options to speak to your group. Scroll down to see our upcoming and past speaking engagements.

Here is a list of topics you might consider:

  1. How to age well
  2. How to achieve a good death
  3. Living well to die well
  4. Decluttering and death cleaning
  5. Having hard conversations
  6. Completing advance directives and dementia riders
  7. Healthcare agents
  8. Writing memoirs
  9. Composing ethical wills
  10. Medical aid-in-dying and death with dignity
  11. Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED)
  12. Palliative sedation
  13. The Swiss option
  14. Withdrawing life-sustaining treatments
  15. End-of-life options
  16. Palliative care
  17. Hospice care
  18. End-of-life doulas
  19. Funeral planning
  20. Body disposition
  21. Green burial
  22. NOR
  23. Alkaline hydrolysis
  24. Memorial services
  25. Writing eulogies and obituaries

Upcoming and Past Speaking Engagements:

DateTopicLocationSpeaker
4/30/2024Do You Have an Exit Plan?Senior Assisted Living - Event for Residents OnlyJanet Hager and Christie Golemb
1/19/2024Do You Have an Exit Plan?La Costa Glen - Private Event for Residents OnlyJanet Hager and Christie Golemb
1/24/2024Medical Aid in DyingPositive Passings Zoom EventJanet Hager
10/24/2023Lions Club of EncinitasMedical Aid in DyingJanet Hager
9/20/23Vi Wellness Discussion: Choices For a Peaceful DeathVi Residents OnlyFaye Girsh
7/31/2023Ways Out of DementiaVi Residents OnlyFaye Girsh
7/20/23Vi Retirement Community Library Talk: A Discussion of Voluntary DeathVi Residents OnlyFaye Girsh
5/20/23Medical Aid in Dying - Saturday DocumentaryZoom Presentation - Email Faye for Details: fayegirsh@msn.comFaye Girsh
4/29/23RTD Film and Discussion - BlackbirdBeth Israel TempleFaye Girsh
4/28/23Guest Speaker Podcast "Living to 100" - RTD DiscussionFaye Girsh/Joe Casciani
4/22/23San Diego Memorial Society Keynote SpeechZoom - Memorial Society Members OnlyFaye Girsh
3/20/23Do You Have an Exit Plan?Lil Jackson Senior Community Janet Hager/Christie Golemb
3/4/23Saturday Documentary - Death Positive MovementFaye Girsh
2/8/23Facts on California's End of Life Option ActRadiant HospiceJanet Hager/Christie Golemb
1/7/2023
10:00 to 11:30am		Writing Advance DirectivesScripps Ranch Public Library - 10301 Scripps Lake Dr, San Diego, CA 92131Bill Simmons, Attorney
1/21/2023
10:00 to 11:30am		California End of Life Option and Act and other options for shortening lifeScripps Ranch Public Library - 10301 Scripps Lake Dr, San Diego, CA 92131Bill Simmons, Attorney
12/5/2022
1:00 to 2:30pm		Life's Sunset - Plan Before the Sun Goes Down,
Part 1 of 3: Planning including Family Conversations and writing your advance directive		Grossmont Oasis Center or via Zoom. A $15 fee for all 3. sessions. Reservations are required. Class #533
Register for all 3 sessions		Bill Simmons, Attorney
12/7/2022
1:00 to 2:30pm		Part 2 of 3: California End of Life Option Act and other options for choosing your exit.Grossmont Oasis Center or via Zoom. A $15 fee for all 3 sessions. Reservations are required. Class #566Bill Simmons, Attorney
12/9/2022
1:00 to 2:30pm		Part 3: The problem of dementia -- There is no good answer.Grossmont Oasis Center or via Zoom. A $15 fee for all 3 sessions. Reservations are required. Class #566Bill Simmons, Attorney
9/22/22Choice, Dignity, and Control at the End of LifeFlorence Riford Senior Center - 6811 La Jolla BlvdFaye Girsh
5/4/21Right to Die UpdatesOsher Lifelong Learning Institute, UCSDFaye Girsh
3/24/21Whose Life Is It Anyway?Torrey Pines Rotary ClubFaye Girsh
2/8/23Facts on California's End of Life Option ActRadiant HospiceJanet Hager/Christie Golemb
2/18/21End of Life ChoiceSantee/Lakeside Rotary Club (Zoom)Faye Girsh
1/30/20How to Avoid a Prolonged, Excruciating, Degrading, and/or Bankrupting End-of-Life ExperienceRancho Bernardo Rotary ClubMits Tomita