On a cloudy Friday morning, while idling in Dallas traffic, I noticed a new billboard for a nearby children’s hospital. I couldn’t ignore the irony of seeing a mother holding her newborn baby on the ...

For the Rev. Beth Stotts, death is a natural part of her ministry. A major aspect of her job is guiding her congregants through their most vulnerable moments from birth throughout life. The struggles ...

Death doulas offer essential emotional, spiritual, and practical support to individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and their families during the end-of-life journey, ensuring a peaceful and dignified ...

Natalie Krawczyk describes herself as an optimistic person, someone who looks for the best in everyone and everything. She loves spending time with her kids and grandkids. Some of her favorite moments ...

Beyond medical professionals, a growing group of people are devoted to helping dying people and their families: death doulas. Similar to how a birth doula will help expecting parents give birth and ...

We all have something in common: we’re going to die one day. It’s a scary thing to think about, much less talk about. But Alua Arthur thinks about and talks about death a lot. She is an end-of-life ...

With hospitals and health systems looking for better ways to support patients with serious illness, a new resource is showing up as an addition to inpatient care teams: death doulas. Also known as end ...

Doulas have become a fairly common feature in childbirth over the years, stepping in as an additional, non-medical support person for growing families to lean on throughout the act of childbirth and ...

WASHINGTON (InvestigateTV) — A historic cemetery in the nation’s capital has hired a death doula to help visitors have healthy conversations about mortality in what might be a first for such ...

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