The end-of-life doula field is rapidly growing….as the boomer generation reaches an older age, as millennials engage in open conversations around death and dying and as more people attend Death Cafe gatherings…the media is reflecting this growth, interest and search for knowledge and empowerment.
We, at Sunrise to Sunset, believe it’s important to follow the shift in cultural interest and stay up-to-date on the latest research and trends.
Below is a small sampling of the articles published in recent years.
- Doulas are Becoming Part of the End-of-life Equation (NPR, Morning Edition, Jan 2020)
- Learning to Serve the Dying (AARP, October 2019)
- End-of-life-doulas-the-professionals-who-help-you-die (The Guardian, November 2019)
- NC Death Doulas : Embracing the ancient practice (YES! Media, September 2019)
- Deathwives, Death Cafes and Death Doulas (Forbes, August 2019)
- Mobile end-of-life Care (2019)
- Don’t Underestimate the Stress Caregivers Face (USAToday opinion piece by Rob Lowe, Jan. 2019)
- Toronto Death Doula Helps take the Fear out of Dying (The Star, October 2019)
- Well-being in Dying – Preserving Human Potential through the End of Life – Why Rethinking Death will make Living Life Better (Thrive Global, Sept. 2019)
- How to Speak to Someone about an Unspeakable Loss (Tiny Buddha, 2016)
- Death Cafes Allow People to Confront Death with Others (Oct. 2019)
- Waiting too Long to Use Hospice Care can Make Suffering at End of Life Worse (The Washington Post, December 2017)
- End of Life Support and Planning (Talk Death, July 2018)
- Humor Beyond the Grave – Funeral Prank (YahooNews October 2019)
- How Boomers are Planning to Die (Vice, October 2019)
- Women and Death Care (NBCNews, October 2019)
- What if We Could View Death as just another Stage of Life? (RamDass.org, October 2017)
- New Tools Help Start Conversation for End of Life (Folio, October 2019)
- In the Face of Death, the Party of a Lifetime (AP News- Washington, August 2019)
- To Die Well, We Must Talk about Death before the End of Life (PBS.org, October 2019)
- The Death Issue: Midwives for the Dying (NashvilleScene, October 2019)
- The Art of Dying – The Hospice Bridge (News Leader, September 2019)
- VSED: the right to refuse eating and drinking to facilitate ones own death (Washington Post, Nov. 2019)
- You Need to Make a “When I Die” File Before it’s Too Late! (TIME, August 2019)
GREEN BURIAL FOCUS:
- Natural burial options (Chicago Tribune, May 2019)
- Human Composting (Popular Science, May 2019)
- A Different Way to Die: The Story of a Natural Burial (Grist, May 2016)
- The Death Issue: Resting in Peace, the Green Way (Nashville Scene, October 2019)
MUSIC/MOVIES/DOCUMENTARIES:
- Lullaby (2014 full length movie – Rights of the dying vs the will of the family)
- Ain’t the Way to Die : music remix video that will make you THINK
- Death is But a Dream (2016, A documentary about the lighter side of dying)
- Dying Wish (A documentary about an 80 year old doctor’s decision to (VSED) VOLUNTARILY cease eating and drinking to hasten the dying process)
- A Will for the Woods (2013, A documentary of a young man opting for a Green Burial within a conventional funeral system)
BOOKS/ PODCASTS / PEOPLE
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