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
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
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Thank You. To serve in this capacity is a sacred honor that cannot be done without a life of prayer and the prayers that surround us. To sit with a patient, as he/she prepares to step across that threshold is a privledge. The experience changes with each patient. As the Psalmist has said: We await in the darkness of uncertainity, watching for the coming of DAWN.
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