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You can be a
Death Doula

Essential education & personal integration for future death doulas, grievers, and curious humans.

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Every one of us will face death - either supporting someone we love through dying, or facing our own mortality. Death isn't something that only happens to other people; it's woven into all of our lives.

For thousands of years, humans knew how to care for their dying. Death happened at home, with families and neighbors who understood the process. But as society industrialized and people moved to cities, that knowledge migrated to hospitals and institutions. What was once common wisdom - how to sit with the dying, what to expect, how to provide comfort - became "professional" skills that regular people weren't supposed to have.

We gained medical advances but we lost ancestral understanding.

Death doulas help families return to that wisdom. They're reclaiming death as a natural process we can participate in, bridging the gap between medical care and human care. They're bringing back the knowledge our great-grandmothers carried and reminding us that caring for our dying is something we can and should do together.

You Can Be a Death Doula will teach you:

  • The full spectrum of death doula work - from legacy doulas to 11th hour doulas to emerging specializations

  • How death doulas work within the existing care system to support families without replacing medical professionals

  • A realistic understanding of dying including what changes to expect and how to support families through them

  • Your next steps whether you're exploring this as a career, supporting a loved one, or simply wanting to understand this growing field

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Integrate your learnings with our Companion Reflection Guide:

  • Explore what draws you to death doula work and which aspects feel most compelling

  • Examine your experiences with death and loss and how they’ve shaped your unique understanding

  • Identify what feels aligned with your current skills, interests, and level of comfort with the changes at the end of life

  • Consider your calling to specific populations or types of grief

  • Understand what preparation you'd need to feel confident supporting families

Nurture your innate, ancestral wisdom about the end of life.

Whether you're exploring death doula work as a calling, grieving a loss and seeking understanding, or simply curious about this growing field - these guides will help you build confidence as a death companion, understand how death doulas complement existing care, and process your own losses.

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Our Teaching / Learning / Creating Style at La Mort

We leave behind the polished, gate-keepy approach to education. We teach in ways that carry story and experience. We listen. We laugh (a lot). We go off-script sometimes. We cry (with you)(for those you’ve loved)(for those we’ve loved). We like science and studies and logical frameworks, but also mysticism and poetry and all that stuff. We really love to honor history and those who came before. We move through some serious curricula, but don’t take anything too seriously. We dedicate ourselves to seeing you, and want you to feel seen. We deeply honor our intuition and yours. We lead with integrity (always). And we welcome the odd-balls and misfits,  because it takes one to know one.