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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 – supporting someone who is 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 deeply listen…, hold an open space for the needs, wishes and values of the dying person, and ‘walk with’ them as they near their death.

A doula can also help you plan your death, including the requisite paperwork and necessary advocacy.

I have been trained as a death doula by Alexandra Derwen in Eryri or 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.