The question I get when I tell people I’m an End-of-Life Doula AND I started a club for everyone still alive called the Pre-Dead Social Club is, WHY?

I believe…

• that death is a life skill

• that we really DO want to talk to about what matters most as it relates to our mortality, but we don’t know who to talk to

• the more practice we get die-a-loguing about death and dying the better prepared we’ll be when that time comes

• because we’ve made death a “medical event” vs. a “life event” we’ve lost our footing and confuse “quantity of life” to be synonymous with “quality of life”

• our medical professionals are exhausted in part because they feel their patients don’t want to talk about death, as a natural course of living

• the vast majority of our medical professionals don’t receive impactful training to help us navigate end-of-life

• every one of us will be a caregiver (now or some day soon) and we are woefully underprepared for this role

• as individuals, as family members, as members of communities, as people who WILL die someday - we can do better, we need each other and have a lot to share

• in meeting people where they are at

I have no doubt we have a lot in common and we have a lot to learn from each other. We all are somewhere between thriving and dying and what supports our thriving shifts with each of our life chapters.