Death doula: A midwife for the end of life

This brief article from today’s L.A. Times describes an advocate’s perspective on companioning another during his/her dying. This one sentence reflects the nobility and sacredness of the task Ana takes on as a death doula: “If I'm assisting in a death passing, what I'm really doing is assisting the soul to birth its new life. And that's such an honorable, necessary thing." Ana Blechschmidt

The entire article can be accessed at this link: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-death-doula-20111227,0,1874185.story