Last Words | Charts and Graphs
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Last Words | Charts and Graphs
The company believes such technology can be an important part of developing a "well dying" culture - where we prepare for our death in advance, leaving family histories, stories and memories as a form of "living legacy".
Egon Cossou • The man who turned his dead father into a chatbot
Consider the saying often attributed to Stalin that one death is a tragedy, but a million deaths is statistics.
Joi Ito • The Social Labs Revolution
but they also show us that how people die is not predetermined and can be made better or worse by the choices they make and the quality of care they receive.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross • On Death and Dying: What the Dying Have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
I like to think of data visualization as a story. The main character is the user, and we can go two ways. A story of charts and graphs might read a lot like a textbook; however, a story with context, relationships, interactions, patterns, and explanations reads like a novel.