Living With Dying articles
Titles Used By End-of-life Guides
By Leah Carey
Aug. 30, 2016
According to a list provided by the National Home Funeral Alliance, there are numerous titles being used by people who help others in the death process.
Here is the text from their list (see the full graphic above)
End-of-life Transition Guide
Accompanies a dying person and/or family and friends through a personal, intentional and conscious dying process
Terms used:
- Conscious dying guide
- Death doula
- Death midwife
- Death transition guide
- End-of-life doula
- End-of-life guide
- Midwife to the dying
- Midwife to the soul
- Pre-death guide
- Psychopomp
- Soul midwife
- Sacred crossings guide
- Thanadoula
Home Funeral Guide
(a topic we will address in an upcoming entry in the Living With Dying series)
Works to empower families and/or friends to care for their own dead and guide them through after-death care
Terms used:
- Death midwife
- Family funeral guide
- Home funeral educator
- Home vigil and funeral guide
Celebrant
Works with family and/or friends to create a a funeral, memorial, or celebration of life
Terms used:
- Ceremonialist
- Clergy
- Officiant
Full article listing
- Prologue - Mother's Day
- Part 1 - Making Peace With Death During Life
- Part 1a - Creating an environment for a peaceful death
- Part 2 - Musical Pharmaceuticals
- Part 2a - More Musical Pharmaceuticals
- Part 3 - When helping people to die is your work
- Part 3a - Death through the eyes of nurses
- Part 4 - It's always too soon until it's too late
- Part 4a - Advanced directives in an ICU
- Part 5 - I just can't keep from singing
- Part 5a - A heart-to-heart connection
- Part 6 - What we need to know when we help our loved ones to die
- Part 6a - More with Dr. Lakin
- Part 7 - Doctor/patient communication
- Part 7a - Holding two possibilities
- Part 8 - The language of death
- Part 8a - Discovering the patient's goals
- Part 9 - A death midwife
- Part 9a - End-of-life guides
- Part 10 - Signposts of dying
- Part 10a - Signposts in action
- Part 11 - Being a good patient advocate
- Part 11a - Behind the hospital curtain
- Part 12 - Home funerals
- Part 12a - Why embalming?
- Part 13 - End-of-life utterances
- Part 14 - Ongoing end-of-life treatment
- Part 15 - Beyond the statistics
- Part 16 - What doctors want at the end of life
- Part 16a - Doctor survey results
- Part 17 - Doctors talk about end of life
- Part 18 - How to be with someone who is dying
- Part 18a - Local hospice founder
- Part 19 - No regrets
- Part 20 - Do no harm during death
- Part 20a - Becoming a palliative care doctor
- Part 21 - Helping a child to die
- Part 22 - Helping a child to die, pt 2
- Part 22a - Marital stress when a child is dying
- Part 23 - Caregiver exhaustion
- Part 24 - A family's journey with disease
- Part 25 - Teaching the next generation
- Part 26 - A year of Living With Dying