A woman has shared how she quit her high-flying job to become a death doula — a person who helps people organize a death plan. Alua Arthur who left her legal job to help others plan the end of their ...

There is little about Alua Arthur that emanates the deathly or morbid. The 45-year-old Los Angeles resident has a radiant, gap-toothed smile, a propensity for citrus-colored nail polish and an ...

One of the things that makes humans unique is our awareness of the inevitability of death. While many of us push this death awareness out of our minds in our daily lives, it is undeniable that 10 out ...

Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have... Death doula says life is more meaningful if you 'get ...

On a special episode (first released on September 4, 2024) of The Excerpt podcast: If you’re the type of person who might enjoy five daily reminders about the certainty of death sent to your phone, ...

Alua Arthur, a death doula, works with Beverly Leacock, whom she addresses as Ms. Beverly as "an important sign of respect." Death doulas work to support and guide the dying through a "good death," ...

Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode How to repair your most important relationships. Death is hard to talk about. But death doula Alua Arthur says if we want to live presently and die peacefully, we ...

Most people don’t want to talk about death, or listen to others talk about it. Yet it was precisely such a discussion, hot on the heels of a near-death experience, that gave a then-depressed and ...

Alua Arthur is a death doula who helps people, both ill and healthy, plan the end of their lives. In 2012, she taught herself about end-of-life care and helped her brother-in-law with cancer die. She ...

Limitless with Chris Hemsworth is now streaming on Disney+ and ahead of its launch, we were able to sit down with a number of experts to talk about their incredible work with the one-and-only God of ...