Articles
60 Minutes Article: "The Cost of Dying"
This article provides helpful insights into how our current medical system affects those at the end of life and their families.
Improving end‑of‑life care: gathering suggestions from family members (qualitative study)
Explores what families of dying patients suggest to improve the experience: better communication, being physically close, being allowed to touch/participate, having the dying person’s personhood acknowledged.
“The ‘Doula’ in accompanying the end-of-life” (Medicina Historica)
This anthropological piece digs into how death has been “medicalised” and how the death doula role can be seen as a culturally restorative move.
This article outlines the multiple burdens family caregivers face (time/logistics, physical tasks, emotional and mental health impacts, financial strain, physical health) and what physicians/health systems can do to support caregivers.
“Death doula working practices and models of care: the views of death doula training organisations” (via BMC Palliative Care)
This open-access study explores how training organisations view the role, business models, and integration of death doula services.
Other Resources
End of Life Choices CA (EOLCCA) – Resources Page
Offers articles, support groups, reading lists, videos/podcasts covering end-of-life planning, choice, legal options, personal stories.
