HeyJaredPaula Adams
A Death Walker, Death Talker, and Thanatologist, advocates for MAID, Euthanasia, and autonomy. Founder of Destiny’s Door Death Retreat, she guides end-of-life journeys with dignity, holistic wisdom, reshaping how society embraces death.
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Death Literacy: The Next Great Human Skill What If the Legacy We Leave Is Wisdom About Dying? (opens the original)
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We teach birth. We celebrate growth. We reward productivity. We romanticize youth.Yet the one experience every human being shares, without exception, remains one of the least discussed, least understood, and most feared realities of existence.Death.Not because death is rare.Because death literacy is.As a deathwalker, I have sat beside people as they took their last breaths. I have watched families navigate impossible decisions. I have witnessed extraordinary courage, heartbreaking confusion, and
The Silent Grief of Lost Autonomy (opens the original)
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How can we call it a “good death” when autonomy is stripped away? When the final decision about one’s body, mind, and spirit is not truly a choice but a forced acceptance, does surrender lead to peace—or merely resignation? And if autonomy itself has always been an illusion—if our choices have always been dictated by systems, circumstances, and limitations we cannot control—then is the loss of agency at the end of life simply the final proof that we never really had it to begin with?This questio
MAiD Is Illegal, VSED Is Quiet, Hospice Is Cracking: Texas at the End of Life (opens the original)
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Texas: Freedom culture, controlled endingsTexas loves its myths of freedom—trucks, land, guns, don’t‑tread‑on‑me energy. But at the end of life, that freedom shrinks fast.There is no Medical Aid in Dying (MAiD) in Texas. Hospice is the default. Long‑term care and hospital systems carry the rest. Religion and policy shape the narrative. And most Texans have no idea what their actual choices are—or aren’t.This article is a factual look at what end‑of‑life care in Texas really offers, what it withh
When the Fog Settles: Gaslighting After Death and the Vulnerability of the Newly Bereaved (opens the original)
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There is a period after death when the world becomes disordered, surreal, and neurologically unstable.Clinicians call it acute grief impairment.Families call it shock.Deathworkers call it the fog.Whatever name we give it, the phenomenon is real.Research from the American Psychological Association and the Center for Complicated Grief shows:<span
A Nation Unprepared for Its Own Ending: What Death Illiteracy Reveals About America’s Future (opens the original)
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There is something profoundly revealing — and deeply concerning — about a nation of millions who move through life without ever examining how it will end.Not because death is grotesque.Not because death is taboo.But because death is the final act of human agency, the last domain in which a person can exercise autonomy, sovereignty, and self‑determination.And yet, most people do not know that the end of life contains choices at all.What does it say about a state, a country, a society, when its pe
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