This selection of images in “ Requiems “, speak to how Americans deal with the issues and dying in collaboration with the artist, Bastienne Schmidt. Representing a cross cultural exploration into how different ethnic, social, and geographically diverse how Americans deal with the issues of death and dying. They received an George Soros Open Society Institute Grant in support of this project.

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REQUIEMS ~ OPEN SOCIETY INSTITUTE,PROJECT ON DEATH IN AMERICA

The Open Society Institute's Project on Death in America (PDIA) was created in 1994 with an ambitious goal: to help transform the experience of dying in the United States. Over the course of nine years, PDIA created funding initiatives in professional and public education, the arts and humanities, research, clinical care, and public policy. PDIA and its grantees have helped build and shape this important and growing field, and have placed improved care of the dying on the public agenda.