In 1880—four years after he had invented the telephone—Alexander Graham Bell created another invention that he himself considered his greatest. Today, almost 140 years later, that invention stands to change the Internet and the online world that we know in profound ways.

“Nations and peoples are largely the stories they feed themselves. If they tell themselves stories that are lies, they will suffer the future consequences of those lies. If they tell themselves stories that face their own truths, they will free their histories for future flowering.”

At one point in his career, Zach Bush, MD was so disillusioned with medicine, with his inability to understand the real causes of disease and to make his patients fundamentally healthier, that he decided to extend his training to hospice care. He felt he could really help people ease into the process of dying. Helping people through the death transition, he experienced death as not just an end.