S3E24: GETTING COMFORTABLE WITH DEATH — Death Doula Caroline Lee dives into the uncomfortable conversation around death and how we can ease the process for ourselves and others

What's The Juice

Olivia Amitrano

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4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2022

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

This week's episode is an incredibly interesting conversation that covers one of life’s most uncomfortable and danced-around topics: death. And who better to chat with than a death doula? Enter: Caroline Lee. As a death doula, 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 an end-of-life plan. Listen in as we discuss what steps you can take to prepare yourself and your family, including:

Writing your wishes
Designating a ‘Payable on Death’ on your bank account
Sharing/receiving account passwords
Coping with grief and/or the prospect of death via psychedelic-assisted therapy, death meditations, and more

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0:00.0	Have you ever heard of a death doula?
0:03.6	Today's episode of What's the Juice features a striking conversation that covers one of
0:08.3	life's most uncomfortable and dance-drawn topics, death.
0:13.4	And who better to chat with than death doula, Caroline Lee.
0:18.0	Caroline's first awareness of death doula work came from her curiosity about end of life
0:23.3	planning nearly five years ago.
0:25.7	As the oldest of six kids who are all very different and have very different personalities
0:30.2	and wishes, she began to wonder what would happen if one of them died unexpectedly or wasn't
0:35.6	able to make those decisions anymore.
0:38.0	It would be familial chaos trying to guess what that sibling might have wanted.
0:42.4	That's when she discovered the advanced directive or a living will and invited her siblings
0:47.8	out of nowhere one time to fill them out so they could successfully communicate their
0:51.7	wishes and even understand them for themselves while they were still alive.
0:55.8	From there, Caroline grew increasingly more curious about death and dying and eventually
1:00.1	completed her death doula training.
1:02.0	She's also working on getting her masters in somatic psychology to become a licensed therapist
1:06.2	who's focused on the mind-body connection.
1:08.4	As a death doula, Caroline offers support to those navigating diagnoses, those coping
1:13.0	with the prospect of death and or someone who has passed, and even those who are young
1:18.0	and proactively creating their end of life plan.
1:20.9	Listen in as we have the conversation that we all need to be thinking about more because
1:25.0	death is really the only thing that's certain about life.
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