What is a Death Doula and How to Become a Death Doula, with Alua Arthur 

I’m really considering this as a career switch. It lights me up to have the desire to hold someone’s hand during this ‘shedding of the body’. Death is a miracle as is birth. More attention should be with those dying to complete their final wishes and processes. And to celebrate their life while they are still living it.

Alua is immensely talented in the way she brings her academic and practical knowledge together in order to support an empowered death. I hope she continues to succeed in her life and career because she thoroughly deserves to.

I just got accepted into Alua's program. I'm so grateful. Also, I had NO IDEA this channel existed! I love death and all things morbid, so thank you! New subscriber.

I would like to become a death Doula. I believe fully that life goes on after this life. I do not believe death is the end, but the beginning.

Alua, I have been a doula, after growing up in home health care with developmental disabilities. I started at the age of 21 when my sister passed away from cancer after three weeks diagnosed. She told me during that time, that a life in nursing or home care, specifically end of life, was where I needed to be. That was august of 2000, and in May of 2001, i met my first client. My mother had opened an agency with The state of Florida for dual diagnosis mental and physical disabilities and my fist clients mother had breast and bone cancer. My mother was also known in the community for private duty and we were called on often, throughout the 55+ community in the Tampa Bay Area. What you are doing is beautiful and wonderful. Now loved ones can be with their loved one instead of being stuck in a fog and not knowing what to do or where to turn. Gods peace and blessings to you!

I hope the courses are still up. I’m accidentally becoming a death doula. I work with the elderly as a caregiver and constantly deal with death. Now, I’m newly working with people closely in homes and death is everywhere in an entirely new way. I would love more official training from those who have so much more experience with this.

Love this concept 💖 I would love to have Alua hold my hand while I get the heck out. 🙏

Am excellent conversation and much appreciated. I am often in Hospice centers administering Reiki, administering sound therapy through tuning forks or singing bowls, and somatic touch. It has been an honor and a dedication. I am not however a death Doula. The depth of information you have a bow in your general direction and honor your sacred journey and thank you Beyond for your gifts of returning souls to the source of love. Blessings upon blessings!

I'm only 14 however I would love to get certified as a death doula in the future, even if that isn't the career I choose to go into.

I have just decided, this is what I want to do. Help people transition. Thank you for this video💗

I am in school to be a funeral director and embalmer. My plan is to eventually get death doula training and then be both a funeral director AND a death doula

I'm interested in taking her courses and becoming a death midwife/doula

I am a Death Doula, I work mostly bed side not to much with the paperwork.

oh, I am a death doula and didn't even know it. cool.

I agree, there should be more people who have a birdseye view of everything revolving around death, before during and after. I can't find them here so maybe I have to become that person for my local area

Grace is awesome!!

i just heard about this career. and im seriously considering it.

Great video

Good God she's gorgeous!

This is something I am very interested in. I have been a de facto Hospice Nurse, when I was a nurse at an assisted living facility. The actual Hospice Nurses didn’t do much other than visit their patients once a week and assess their condition. I discovered that people who were dying, seem to be comforted by my presence. I didn’t put it together until after working as a nurse. Well before I was a nurse, I came to visit my grandmother. She had had a stroke and couldn’t speak. I just decided to speak to her normally and talk about my life. I told her about my dogs. I could tell she was smiling. I told her I was engaged and was getting married the next fall. She immediately snapped out of not speaking. She spoke to me for a good 20 minutes. She gradually got tired and couldn’t speak anymore. She passed two days later never speaking. In nursing school, during my clinical rotation; I had a patient call to me. She was the first person who ever called to me as “Nurse?”. I immediately came over and she had some questions about something I can’t remember. Whatever I said seemed to bring her tremendous comfort. I spoke to her for a few minutes. She was a lovely lady. She looked comfortable and calm and I told her I would come see her again before I left with my fellow student nurses. 10 minutes after I walked to another part of the hospital ; I heard that a patient had died. I was incredibly surprised that it was the lady I had spoken to! When I worked at an assisted living facility, I had so many family members thank me and say they were happy and comforted that I was the nurse on staff that night. I noticed that hospice patients almost always passed on my shift. (And no, I wasn’t doing anything to hasten their passing. They were almost always surrounded by their loved ones. I came to work one night and my coworker said that a certain man was “actively dying”. The last I had heard before this was that he was going off Hospice because he was doing better. My coworker said he was actively dying, and I blurted out, “Oh no, he’s going to die on my shift!” Because I had others who passed on my shift. My coworker assured me that this had just begun and there was no way he would pass that quickly. I checked him ever 1/2 hour throughout the night. (This facility had 100 apartments and there was only me and one caregiver at night) I did my final check on him, and he was the same. 15 or so minutes later the morning caregivers arrived. I had another 20 minutes and then It was time to leave. I immediately got a call from his caregiver that he was gone. 😓. I called the Hospice to let them know. They asked me to notify the family, which isn’t supposed to be how Hospice works. They are supposed to notify the family and call whoever is supposed to pick up the body. I was incredibly unimpressed by how Hospice worked at the facility I worked. They didn’t lift a finger to actually physically care for the patient. They made assessments and left. I’d rather be there for the patient and their families than worry some nurse didn’t give the patient their pain medication. Which happened while I was working in Hospice. The pain medications are PRN. Which means the patient has to ask for them. This patient couldn’t talk and appeared to be in so much pain and confusion. I asked the other nurses whether they giving him his pain and anti anxiety meds. They said, “Well, they didn’t ask for them”. I explained that he COULDN’t speak and he needed his meds!! He passed on my shift a few days later. Thankfully I was working with a woman who is now a Nurse Practitioner. I would so much rather be a comfort to the patient and family during their loved ones. After watching the movie “Dr Sleep”, I realized that’s what I am. I have never sobbed through a so-call horror movie in my life. (For anyone unfamiliar with the movie, it’s a sequel to “The Shining”. It’s so incredibly deep.

i am very interested. I've been doing this work for most of my life

My mom took out a prearrange for her and my father who has already passed. Can you do a video on that?

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When it comes to spirits in death experience that for someone who is what comes to hoodoo magic of necromancy

Could you be a death dula.. Without having Hospice involved? That's the only reason I am Considering becoming a Dula/ Making it a career choice.

I wanna be a Death Doula, how can I get into her class?

I’m thinking of doing this I just found out about this

its upsetting to see the interviewers so concerned with popularity when there was so much interesting material that was brought up.

What type of license or education do you need?

Why would you help fill paperwork? You’re there to facilitate the passing of someone. Not a legal notary worker. Just like you’re not assisting with any type of medication.

If i subbed to this channel it would be my worst nightmare “PASS”

I follow you guys on IG, I just discovered you guys have a channel!