Death Doula

What is a death doula? You will have heard of the role of a midwife, helping a mother in the process of giving birth. A death doula is similar yet at the opposite end of life’s spectrum - helping someone in the process of dying, or the family of such a person. Yet it is not a medical role - that is left to the medical professionals - but a role of emotional, psychological and even spiritual support for the dying person.

We can often feel confused, lost, berefit, mis-heard or mis-understood when dying. All of the usual certainties are falling away and we’re entering into a new territory altogether. While family, friends and medical professionals can offer a valuable role, the role of a death doula is to provide perhaps a missing link. The doula is someone with the training, experience, practical knowhow and depth of humanity, who can ‘walk with’ a person who is facing death.

A doula can help you plan your death, including the requisite paperwork and necessary advocacy. In addition, a doula can support the dying person, and their family, in navigating the dying process, providing a quality of listening, understanding, and humane support.

I have been trained as a death doula by Alexandra Derwen in Snowdownia. She is both a pioneer and inspiration in the doula and celebrant field.

It would be a privilege for me to offer this death doula service to you. Contact me for details.