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The death doula: 'We live in a death-phobic society'


 
A cheery chat about death? It sounds incongruous doesn’t it? Death is tragic, traumatic, it’s a wrenched ending: something to be feared or ignored until it makes its presence felt. We use euphemisms: gone to a better place, passed away, moved on. That’s until it touches you, and then it threatens, engulfs, overwhelms. Covid has brought death closer. It’s there in the relentless statistics, an online counter, the curve of a graph, a needle flickering up into the red zone.
Ruth McGill has a different idea about death. The actress and singer is also a death doula. “It’s sort of a new label,” she tells me via Zoom from where she’s currently living in Ardara, Co Donegal. “Soul midwife is another term I’ve heard, but it’s so much more.” ....

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