You are capable of dying and helping your loved ones die

A death worker's manifesto

I want us to sit down and have a little conversation about death. I don’t think I have told you clearly yet why I am a death worker (I also use the term death doula).

I simultaneously take this opportunity to write a death doula manifesto for myself.

In early spring of 2019 I was in Mumbai, India witnessing, caring for my dying grandmother. I mainly wen…