USA Today Article & Resources
Death Doulas Used to Be Rare
The COVID-19 Pandemic Changed That
USA Today
November 22, 2022 Issue
Tonya Fortune Smith & Floyd D. Smith End-of-Life Doulas, Since 2017
What’s a Death Doula?
An end-of-life doula is a non-medical person who provides continuous physical
emotional, informational, and spiritual support to their client
whose facing a life-limiting diagnosis with
compassionate engagement and open-hearted presence or
if you care for someone near the end of life.
This work calls upon old wisdom, work that was done by our
great-grandmothers who have accompanied their loved ones
through the bookends of life, including birth and death
since the beginning of time before it had a name.
Now, we are the marriage of old ways with new resources and information.