WISDOM FROM A DEATH DOULA

BRIEFLY PERFECTLY HUMAN: Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End Alua Arthur Mariner Books, 2024 A death doula is a counselor, coach, and concierge for the dying and the grieving. For Alua Arthur, this was a spiritual calling. In Briefly Perfectly Human, her confessional memoir, she traces her path from lawyer to caregiver. After a tragic death in her family, she asks, “If I … couldn’t make sense of the myriad things to do to wrap up my brother-in-law’s affairs, how could my heavily grieving sister? How could people who don’t have any support at all?” Arthur’s gift is the whimsical carpe diem: advice on how to live more than how to die. She offers light instruction (advance directives, navigating hospice) but she is most in her power…

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Spirituality & Health (Digital) - 1 Issue, November/December 2024

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