Who Becomes a Death Doula?
Why Would I Use a Death Doula?
Others might desire to conduct a home funeral for personal, cultural, environmental or spiritual reasons.
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Can They Embalm Bodies?
Embalming instruction is not part of the death doula-training process.
What Does It Cost?
It depends on other caregiving facilities.
Each death doula sets their own fees, so confirm you ask about all of the costs involved upfront.
The National End-of-Life Doula Alliance alsoprovides a directoryof their members, as does theInternational End-of-Life Doula Association.
Rawlings D, Tieman J, Miller-lewis L, Swetenham K.What role do Death Doulas play in end-of-life care?
A systematic review.Health Soc Care Community.2019;27(3):e82-e94.
