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Notes From a Death Doula

Raw reflections, honest conversations, and a few laughs about death, dying, grief, and the messy, beautiful, sometimes ridiculous ways we keep living through it all.

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Sep 22, 2026
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Latest issues

  1. Issue · Sep 22, 2026

    What We Owe the Unlived Version of Ourselves (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 10, 2026

    Was Your Grandmother's House a Hospice Like My Grandmother's House Was? (opens the original)

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    I slept on the couch in the living room of a housing project apartment that never once felt like anything less than home, and from that couch I had a clear view of the stove and the single light left burning above it after everyone else had gone quiet, and some nights, when the rest of the house was resting the way a body rests when it has decided to trust the dark, I watched roaches come out into that light like they owned it, like they’d been waiting all day for the kitchen to finally belong t

  3. Issue · Aug 27, 2026

    The Cards We Carry: A Meditation (opens the original)

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  4. Issue · Aug 5, 2026

    Grieving for Likes (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 2, 2026

    Not Everyone Belongs in the Obituary (opens the original)

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