Kimberly D. Acquaviva is the Betty Norman Norris Endowed Professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing. She is the author of LGBTQ-Inclusive Hospice and Palliative Care: A Practical Guide to Transforming Professional Practice (2017), which received the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Award in the Palliative Care and Hospice Category. She is an AASECT-certified sexuality educator with a master’s degree in social work and a PhD in human sexuality education, both from the University of Pennsylvania.

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• Watch Documenting Death, a documentary short produced by Sara Joe Volansky for the New Yorker

• Read In Her Own Words (Virginia Nursing Legacy)

• Read On Words: What 'Death' Means to this End-of-Life Expert Whose Wife Just Died (UVA Today)

• Read Living While Dying (Pulse)

• Listen to A Charlottesville Woman Shares Her Death Online (NPR/WVTF)