Death Doula Services &
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While our society offers a safe and personal transition to come into life; our society has distanced from the transition of death and the leaving this world.

 

I am a death doula, also known as an end-of-life doula or death midwife. I am a professional who offers non-medical support and guidance to individuals who are nearing the end of their lives, as well as to their families.

 

These services often complement those of medical professionals, hospice teams, and therapists. Death Doula services help bridge the gap between our society and death and dying.

 

Death Doula services offer choice and control in death by uncovering options that reflect personal death transitions. Incorporating a Death Doula at the end-of-life often results in lower costs and navigational guidance for a truly personal transition.
 

Here's a summary of services I offer: 
 

1. Education: I am an educator at heart, providing a service of information about the dying process and deathcare to help decease stigma and fears to communities and families. 
    

2. Emotional & Grief Support: I offer a listening ear and compassionate presence for the dying and their families, helping them process their feelings and fears about death and the dying process. After the death of a loved one, I provide support to grieving family members, helping them navigate their grief and adjust to their loss.
    

3. Planning and Advocacy and Practical Assistance: I can assist individuals make their own end-of-life plans, which might include advance care directives, funeral arrangements, and/or legacy projects. I can also serve as an advocate, ensuring that a dying person's wishes are respected. As an organizer and planner, I assist with tasks like organizing paperwork, coordinating with other care providers, funeral homes, or creating a serene environment in an individual's final moments.
    

4. Ritual and Ceremony: I provide guidance to families in creating meaningful rituals or ceremonies to honor their loved one’s life and death, whether spiritual or secular in nature.
    

5. Altered States, Religious and/or Spiritual Navigation, Complementary Therapies, and Deathcare Education: I am an spiritual navigator who believes in peer-to-peer navigation, guidance, grief support. While I am open to serve everyone, I believe in passing and sharing information to empower all communities to connect with dying and deathcare. As an altered states history educator, I am open to navigating unconventional end-of-life requests. 
    

6. Home Funeral Guide: I guide families with Home Funerals and navigate and collaborate with the industrial funeral system.
    

7. Community Resources: As a community and system navigator, I connect families with relevant resources in the community, such as therapists, support groups, religious persons, or legal assistance. I also host community workshops about Death and Dying with a historical public health social perspective.