Marie Laveau: The Patron Saint of Death Doulas?
Before she was remembered as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau was a healer, nurse, and spiritual caretaker who walked daily between life and death. Her legacy, shaped by faith and service, offers a lineage for today’s death doulas — a reminder that tending the dying has always been sacred work.
Where the River Meets the Grave: A Doulapalooza Guide Map to New Orleans
A companion piece to my 2025 National End of Life Doula Alliance Doulapalooza talk, Where the River Meets the Grave.
This post explores New Orleans as a city of remembrance and offers a free Guide Map for Deathworkers, highlighting sacred sites, rituals, and local traditions for those who walk between worlds.
All That Remains by Sue Black
In All That Remains, forensic anthropologist Sue Black invites us into a lifetime spent with the dead. Part memoir and part anatomy lesson, her book is unflinching in detail yet deeply reverent, reminding us that honesty about the body can itself be a form of compassion.
We Are All Apprentices of Death: From Recreation to Re-Creation
Explore the difference between recreation and re-creation in deathwork with death doula Jade Adgate, guided by Santa Muerte’s teachings.
