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I am changing my career. For the past 2–3 years, I have been involved in the medical-legal field. I have worked a large variety of healthcare-related titles throughout the years (scribe, transcriptionist, director of medical-legal operations) as well as having received certified nursing assistant training (around 60–70 hours worth of training). While I love what I do, I am tired of reading about the same injuries over and over again. So many frankly bullcrap excuses for why said injuries occurred.
I stumbled on “death doula/death midwifery” totally by chance. I was scrolling through TikTok and a woman appeared on my feed who discussed it. It was like a lightbulb went off in my mind and I knew immediately this is what I wanted to do now, with a focus on cancer patients (given the fact that I, myself am a blood cancer survivor who could have easily been terminal).
Death doulas help clients (those who are terminally ill and their loved ones) process and deal with death. Some specialize in the legal side of death (advanced directives, wills, what happens to the body post mortem, etc.), some focus more on the spirituality and psychological wellness aspects (art therapy, music therapy, meditation, mindfulness, etc.). Some specialize in specific types of terminal disease (HIV/AIDs, terminal cancer, dementia, etc.).
