What is a Death Doula?
A Death Doula, or End of Life Doula, is a non-medical professional who provides holistic, personalized support to individuals, families, and care-circles navigating the final stages of life. They offer comfort, legacy planning, and practical guidance to foster a dignified, peaceful death. Death Doulas continue to support care-circles in the hours, days, and sometimes weeks after death.
Who could use a death doula?
The dying, families and communities, parents with infant loss, those looking for a more meaningful way to honor their deceased loved one, those planning their own funerals and burials to name a few.
Death doulas acknowledge that what many would label "non-traditional" death, funeral and burial decisions are actually a return to wisdom in traditional end of life care. Doulas can help coordinate community-centered body care, home funerals, green burials, and celebrations of a person's life in coordination with the medical and funeral community.
It is important to know - I cannot be your death doula and your therapist at the same time. When you reach out, we will have a conversation about what kind of work is most meaningful for you. Michele Bograd, who is both a psychologist and death doula, wrote a lovely reflection on the duality of these roles here.
Legacy Doula
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Advance Care Planning
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11th Hour Doula
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Post Mortem Doula
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Celebrancy
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