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Why Everyone Should Take Death Doula Training: Reconnecting with Our Mortality

20 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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In this opening segment, the speaker passionately argues that every person should undergo death doula training, asserting that the capacity to serve as a death doula is innate and will inevitably be called upon in one's own life. She frames death caregiving as an ancient, universal practice—people historically buried their loved ones themselves, crafting coffins by hand—contrasting this with the modern funeral industry that has created emotional and physical distance from death. The speaker’s purpose is to inspire a reconnection with mortality by reclaiming the hands‑on, personal role that death doulas can play.

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I wish that every single human took a death doula training, took the training I took, because truly everyone has the capability to be a death doula. And at some point, sort of will quasi be one in their own life. And it's something we've been doing forever, just hasn't necessarily had a name. And, you know, over the course of humanity, we were very— death was right in our face, and we would, you know, bury our own dead in our own backyard with a coffin we made from our own hands. And then, you know, funeral industry came in and we got very distanced from death itself.