The Firefly Project

The Firefly Project: Conversations about what it means to be alive presents true dialogues about living and dying hopes and dreams grief and loss. These stories show human beings connecting through the old-fashioned art of letter-writing. Adults with life-threatening illnesses move beyond ideas of themselves as ill or disabled and discover they have much to give back. Their correspondents - teenagers and medical students none of whom have yet met their pen pals in person - discover empathy and find time to focus on others rather than exclusively their own thoughts and concerns grappling with difficult questions about patients' experiences. The Firefly Project has become a repository of intergenerational dialogues full of rare and compassionate insights into the meaning of life illness and death.