The speaker (creator James Laughlin) describes a personal project studying end-of-life care by interviewing end-of-life doulas. He reports speaking with over 100 doulas, plans to undergo training himself next month, and summarizes common doula views of a 'good' death: no pain, minimal loss of bodily dignity, being surrounded by love, and having a sense of legacy.
Over 100
My biggest project is to think about end of life. I talk to end of life doulas. Do you know this profession? I do, yeah. Death doula. So, you know, doulas usually bring life in. End of life doula help people and do the parting. By the way, I've talked to over 100 of those. These fantastic people and next month I'm doing the training myself. It has been so fascinating. But so one of the studies, we asked them, what's a good end of life for, from your experience? And they said, no pain. Kind of doable with modern pain medications. No loss of dignity in the body. Not perfectly doable. But we can make steps though, with it. Surrounded by love and having a sense of legacy.
