Call Sam at 202-774-8454 or email EOL.Doula.Sam@gmail.com for more information
The Way of Dying
My work is to help you make the dying process as peaceful, pain-free, meaningful, and spiritually fulfilling as possible
Services
End of Life Doula
I am an End of Life Doula, a retired family physician, and an active Hospice volunteer. I am also a husband, father, grandfather, brother, son, dedicated caretaker of cats and dogs, and mountain-biker. My spiritual energy comes from love, kindness, service, creativity, physical activity, and nature. I have attained additional training in supporting those with dementia, those choosing voluntary stopping eating and drinking (VSED), and DC requirements for those who wish to consider medical aid in dying (MAID).
Help you coordinate End of Life Activities
I will review the full list of services and options available, and work with you (and your family as you prefer) to make your choices happen.
Assist with Legacy Projects
I can assist with the design and implementation of a "legacy project" -- a way to recapture your life story and create ways for you to be remembered and celebrated after you die. These can include: memory books; photo albums (physical or virtual); recipe books; story projects; pillows or stuffed animals made from your clothes or other material; written or recorded interviews; videos; artwork; and other options.
Provide Support to the person who is dying
I can provide meditation guidance, therapeutic visualization, dog therapy, interspiritual counseling, and other ways to help ease your physical, mental or spiritual distress.
Help create meaningful Rituals and Ceremonies
I can help create rituals and ceremonies for steps in your end of life process, including vigil planning.
Help with planning after death activities
I can provide guidance for care of the body immediately after death, disposition of the body for burial, cremation, or other methods, and links to bereavement assistance.
It's your life
What do you most want to do in the time you have left?
Prices
Prices vary depending on services requested and will be discussed during our free initial consultation.
Life is about connection
With family, with friends, between the young and the old, with pets, to strangers who need help, to artistic or intellectual accomplishments, to nature, to the divine as you understand that entity/power to be.
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Birth and Death are two sides of the same flower
Birth and Death are two sides of the same flower
Birth and Death are two sides of the same flower
Let life be beautiful like spring flowers and death like autumn leaves
What is an "end of life doula"?
Birth and Death are two sides of the same flower
Birth and Death are two sides of the same flower
Birth and Death are two sides of the same flower
Look to the future, and live in the now