Regarding the March 10 letter to the editor “Give Marylanders dignity in dying”: There is one thing that can be said of death. No one can escape it. As a terminally ill patient, I have learned that ...

Early in the fifteenth century, an anonymous text on how to face death appeared. Titled Speculum artis bene moriendi (The Mirror of the Art of Dying Well), it counseled readers to remember that dying ...

For 24 years, Natalie Ann Evans has worked as a birth doula, providing comfort and support to parents ushering new life into the world. But after caring for her mother in hospice in 2014, another ...

Source: KatarzynaBialasiewicz / iStock Providing care does not begin and end with diagnosing and treating illnesses. It also means acting as a trusted confidant, making patients feel comfortable and ...

That’s Carolyn Reveal, a cancer doula. Though she’s sometimes bluntly referred to as a “death doula,” the preferred and blanket verbiage for her services is end-of-life doula. In the same respect that ...