Have you ever heard of a death dula? Today's episode of What's the Juice features a striking

conversation that covers one of life's most uncomfortable and danced around topics.

Death. And who better to chat with than death dula Caroline Lee?

Caroline's first awareness of death dula work came from her curiosity about end-of-life planning nearly five years ago.

As the oldest of six kids who are all very different and have very different personalities and wishes,

she began to wonder what would happen if one of them died unexpectedly or wasn't able to make those decisions anymore.

It would be familial chaos trying to guess what that sibling might have wanted.

That's when she discovered the advanced directive or a living will

and invited her siblings out of nowhere one day to fill them out

so they could successfully communicate their wishes

and even understand them for themselves while they were still alive.

From there, Caroline grew increasingly more curious about death and dying and eventually completed her death dula training.

She's also working on getting her master's in somatic psychology to become a licensed therapist who's focused on the mind-body connection.

As a death dula, Caroline offers support to those navigating diagnoses,

those coping with the prospect of death, and or someone who has passed, and even those who are

young and proactively creating their end-of-life plan. Listen in as we have the conversation that we

all need to be thinking about more, because death is really the only thing that's certain about life.

Our goal is to break the stigma and make it less taboo because this is something we should all

be thinking about and we should know the tools that we have available to us and people like

Caroline who can help us through, especially when someone passes, whether it's unexpected

or a drawn out process from an illness. There's so much to this world and this reality

of death that we just don't talk about and it was such an honor to be able to sit down with

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