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Lovelle: An Introduction from Oregonian Next: and Vimeo.

This morning we launching a series that I am really invested in. The project is like nothing I have ever tried before. We are going to do our best to tell the story of Lovelle - a former newspaper employee who has recently been given just 6 months to live. She has lung cancer that has spread throughout her body.

The main part of the story is going to be video diary entries that I am recording with Lovelle. The idea is to allow her to talk directly about what it is like to live at the end of life. Also, she is considering taking medicine to end her life on her own terms. This is legal in Oregon under the Death with Dignity Act. Along the way, I am going to do my best to document the story with still pictures as well.

In my opinion, the value of the story is not impacted by her decision to either take the medicine or not. I hope it turns out to be a story about life - not about death. I have great hope that people will get to know Lovelle. She is really an amazing person to talk to - very smart and very kind.

I am very interested in this form of storytelling. It is the first time that I will be able to tell the story of a journey. Usually we tell stories after they are over. That way we “get” the story and look back on the events to see what was meaningful. This time, we are committing to telling a story in progress. We know it will have an ending, and we kinda already know what the ending is…but how we get there is unknown.

I will try to post about Lovelle as there are updates -we are hoping to update weekly. You can always check in on what is going on the website that we built for this project.

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