Yvette Nicole Brown, Tig Notaro and Tembi Locke are ready to talk about death.
They are set to participate in an inaugural symposium from End Well that is scheduled to take place at L.A.’s Skirball Cultural Center on Nov. 16. End Well, a nonprofit founded in 2017 by Dr. Shoshana Ungerleider to help reform the conversation around all things end-of-life including grief, loss, caregiving and more, expects to round up 25 participants in total for the program, ranging from experts in the field to celebrities and “unsung heroes.”
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Joining Brown, Notaro and actress and From Scratch author and series creator Locke will be pediatric pain expert Dr. Stefan Friedrichsdorf, labor activist Ai-jen Poo, physician and psychedelics researcher Dr. Anthony Back, Emmy-nominated writer Darnell Lamont Walker, among others. Topics due to be covered include caregiving, grief, policy, decision-making, media and culture change, legacy, innovation, pediatrics, psychedelic-assisted therapy and more. End Well’s symposium will be open to the public and livestreamed. The Stad Center for Pediatric Pain, Palliative & Integrative Medicine is on board as a presenting sponsor.
Underleidger said her team is inching toward the event with both excitement and a “profound” sense of purpose. “This gathering has become a beacon for pioneering minds, a place where ideas are not just shared, but ignited. It’s a platform where fresh perspectives converge, and unexpected conversations spark transformative change,” said Ungerleider.
Added End Well executive director Tracy Wheeler: “Our theme this year is ‘It’s About Time.’ It’s about time to make fundamental changes to our broken systems, certainly, but also to look at how time is a resource too often stolen from the disadvantaged, or how time fundamentally shifts when we or someone we love becomes ill. And, of course, time changes again when death is on the horizon.”
