**3. Teaching the public**

Different authors have suggested that there is a need to teach the public about palliative care [7, 10–13, 17–19]. Nevertheless, there are just a few existing projects that try to teach the public on a large scale. Approaches that have been used are for example: group teaching of family carers in Australia [20, 21] or the open formats of the so-called death café or death chat [22, 23]. The latter invite people to discuss death and dying on a drop-in basis without any obligation to participate again.
