Michael Hebb

Michael Hebb is a writer, entrepreneur and convener best known for founding Death Over Dinner, a project that has prompted well over a million people worldwide to gather around a table and talk about how they want to die. What began as a graduate seminar question became a free online tool that walks hosts through the conversation, and has since been adapted for healthcare teams, veterans and specific cultural communities.

He is the author of Let's Talk About Death (Over Dinner), and has extended the same model to other difficult subjects through Drugs Over Dinner, Generosity Dinners and related projects. His work sits at the intersection of food, ritual and social change, and he has written and spoken widely on the idea that the dinner table is the most forgiving place to raise the hardest topics.