If you’ve landed on this page, the chances are you’re curious about death and dying. Curious, scared, or possibly just highly organised. Maybe a close friend or someone in your family or whānau has died, and you wish you’d known more. Perhaps they’re facing a life-limiting illness right now, physically and emotionally drained, and in need of help. Or maybe you’re here for yourself, thinking about a future that seems neither near nor far away, but inevitable. Whatever your reason, you want to know more: what happens when a person is dying? what support am I able to access? do I need to have a funeral, and can I plan what it looks like? what happens to my precious belongings? can I leave a legacy to my children or the community that I live amongst? who will sit with me as I take my final journey from this world?
As an end-of-life doula, I offer holistic care for a person and their family. It’s not a clinical role - that’s for the medical staff, like doctors, nurses, physiotherapists and so on. My role is to support you with:
Information and communication: helping you feel more confident and informed about death and dying.
Planning: Advance Care Plans (ACPs), conversations about your values, and practical preparation so your wishes are known.
Legacy: recording stories, organising photographs, writing letters for your family or friends, and preserving memories.
Presence: gentle companionship during the final days of life, including bedside vigil, and body care when you or your person dies.
Celebrations: creating meaningful funerals - including living funerals - that truly reflect the person being honoured.
My scope of practice as a doula is broad, and you’ll find a growing number of people like me across Aotearoa. We all offer slightly different things: some are experts in recording memoirs; others are great at after-death care; all of us are compassionate, trained professionals who believe that a good life ends with a good death.
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Every person and every situation is different. Let’s discuss the best way to cover my time for this important work with you and your family or whānau.
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