Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman, 58, recently announced that she was training to become a death doula. Kidman says her mother, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Linda Gould’s father was dying just before the pandemic, she and her family felt unprepared. Living abroad at the time, Gould ...

Throughout history, humans have supported one another during death. The idea of a death doula as a profession is newer. The Global Doula Project lists death doulas, or end-of-life doulas, as a service ...

We’re all going to die, and before that, we will probably navigate the deaths of several people we love along the way. Too dark? Discomfort with the idea of death may be the reason that people rarely ...

While my family sits with our ailing father in the difficult time between life and death, my niece, Lindsey offered invaluable insight as a former hospice nurse. Her calm and open demeaner about the ...

A mother-to-be volunteered to receive services from the doulas during their graduation ceremony at the Hispanic Health Council in Hartford on September 5, 2025. Credit: Shahrzad Rasekh / CT Mirror ...

On a cloudy Friday morning, while idling in Dallas traffic, I noticed a new billboard for a nearby children’s hospital. I couldn’t ignore the irony of seeing a mother holding her newborn baby on the ...

Childbirth — painful, messy, unpredictable — has been part of humankind for time immemorial. And in the US, which has surprisingly high rates of avoidable complications and maternal deaths, more ...

In most western societies, death has always been the church’s job. Nearly everyone wanted last rites, deathbed prayers and a faith leader at their bedside. But for a growing number of people, that ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Shaquoiya Stewart held one of her 6-month-old twins on her lap while Shanille Bowens held the other. As the women caught up and the babies stared at each other quietly, Bowens came ...