WE ALL KNOW HOW THIS ENDS
This was the title of the latest book I have read. It really touched my heart. As a doctor, we aim to keep patients alive, and, most importantly, in my profession as an obstetrician, we assist women in giving birth. This book has a great number of topics that are not discussed in everyday life and are often avoided. These are topics around death, the end of life, funerals, and dealing with grief. We are mostly unprepared and unable to plan accordingly. In all these affairs, the presence of an end-of-life doula becomes handy. The author Anna Lyons points out tips to help people who are interested in this profession to step into this path. Tips such as working in a hospice or as a healthcare assistant, and she introduces several useful websites and links. Training as an end-of-life doula teaches us that death is a normal and natural part of life, dying is still living, and death is a transition. She points out that a good doula listens to her clients and asks all the important que...
