Name: Dr. Jim deMaine with Rebecca Crichton
Start: 2026-03-09T19:30:00-07:00
End: 2026-03-09T19:30:00-07:00
Location: The Mehdi Reading Room

Dr. Jim deMaine with Rebecca Crichton

Finding Dignity, Hope, and Healing at the End

Date:: Monday, March 9
Time:: 7:30 pm PDT
Cost:: $10 – $35 Sliding Scale

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Venue

: The Mehdi Reading Room
: 1119 8th Ave
Seattle, 98101 United States + Google Map

Event Format: In-Person

EVENT NOTES
Doors for this event will open at 6:30 PM. Town Hall events are approximately 75 minutes long.

Headshots of Jim deMaine (with short white hair, eyeglasses) and Rebecca Crichton (with short grey hair and floral scarf)

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Join Dr. Jim deMaine, a pulmonary/critical care physician, and Rebecca Crichton, Executive Director of Northwest Center for Creative Aging, to discuss our choices when seriously ill. Do advance directives really work? How can we advocate for ourselves and our loved ones? Jim draws from his book Facing Death: Finding Dignity, Hope, and Healing at the End, a memoir about helping us plan for a more peaceful, healing death.

Dr. Jim deMaine is a Clinical Professor of Medicine Emeritus at the University of Washington School of Medicine and was the chief of medical specialties and co-chaired the ethics committee at Group Health Cooperative (now Kaiser Permanente).

Rebecca Crichton, Executive Director of Northwest Center for Creative Aging (NWCCA), brings wisdom and purpose to her work with the aging community. She retired from a 21-year career at Boeing as a writer, curriculum designer, and leadership development coach. Her Encore Career uses her knowledge and experience to offer programs and resources related to Creative Aging in the Seattle area. NWCCA collaborates monthly with Town Hall Seattle. She facilitates Wisdom Cafes for the King County Library System and writes a regular column for 3rd Act Magazine.

Trained as a Hospice Volunteer, Rebecca continues to teach and facilitate Grief and Resilience support groups for several organizations. Rebecca has master’s degrees in child development and organizational development and is a Certified Coach.

Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Northwest Center for Creative Aging.

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