Death doulas and volunteers with nonprofit organization End of Life Choices Oregon are working to shift people’s understanding of death: It’s not only an eventuality, it's as fundamental a life event as birth.
. It allows people with terminal illnesses to end their lives through self-administration of medication prescribed by a doctor for that purpose.
If a person who qualifies is interested, volunteers will help them through the process. They will talk with clients about their values and what makes life worth living to help them figure out what they want. Participants consider factors such as comfort and independence. Sinclair and other death counselors said they've found a reluctance to begin hospice care. People sometimes feel enrolling is giving up, they said, so they wait to get support.
Often, they find out how their client envisions the final stage of their life and help them make it happen. These details can be as big as avoiding dying in a hospital and as little as the music they want playing when they pass.When her mom died in 2011, May felt unprepared. She wasn’t always sure how to help or what to expect. Most upsetting, she wasn’t sure what her mom wanted.
“That last phase of life is sacred,” May said. “There's so much that can be missed when we're fighting against it.”
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