By Charlotte Cowles@charlottecowles
Illustration: Lauren Tamaki
In 2012, Alua Arthur quit her legal career to become a death doula. The problem was that she had no idea such a job existed. “All I knew was that there had to be a better way to give support during one of the most lonely and isolating experiences a person can go through,” she says. Now 42, she is a leader in the field of death work and has guided thousands of people and their loved ones through the end-of-life process. She has also trained hundreds of other death doulas through her company, Going With Grace, and is on the board of directors at the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA). Read the interview HERE.
This is an absolutely amazing article. We need more people doing this, especially since so many of us are being affected by coronavirus and other life-stealing diseases.
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