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Cleaning the space of a hoarder… but wait, I was always told he was “collecting.”Cleaning anyone’s home after they die is a daunting...

Dear Friends,  Young children have important questions about death and need supportive adults. It’s never too early to begin the...

The medical model of care is focused on writing invoices, billing medications and not to say the least try to keep people from dying....

Dear Friends, Do you: love a good romance story?  want to learn some super interesting facts about Egypt and tombs? like quantum physics...

In honour of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day, HHA is sharing the following post from Tammy Elliott about her journey with grief...

With life there is the guarantee of death.  Normally, we float through our life without a thought to the end of our journey.  Sure, we...

One big issue with the end-of-life industry is the lack of interest in it on a grand scale. People, organizations, funders, and governing...

I watched the paramedics lift my mother like a dead weight from her recliner chair onto the gurney. I knew she was dying. I wished and I...

Dear Friends, If I had come across the book The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer in my teenage years my life would have been a lot...

Life has a way of taking you to unexpected places sometimes, which is certainly true for my journey as a death doula candidate through...

I have known for many years that our medical system is broken. So deeply broken, but today...today I felt lost and hopeless, alongside...

When someone is living with the effects of trauma, mental illness, or substance dependence, especially in the context of precarious...

Dear Friends, I am deeply passionate about my personal journey to becoming a death doula. Before I began the Home Hospice Association...

Last breaths, last rights, Grim Reaper, fear, finality, homecoming, release. There, I mentioned words that are most likely ones you think...

Death doulas are on the rise and here to take the fear out of dying. Let’s face it; we are all going to die one day. If you had the...

Dear Friends, I have a book I would like to recommend. It is one that I read a lifetime ago. It is called The Five People You Meet In...

The loss and grief of a loved one drew me to research the valuable role that a death doula provides. Marg, my beloved sister-in-law who...

For over 20 years, I’ve worked as a nurse in long-term care, providing care and companionship to people in their most vulnerable moments....

Dear Friends, I am writing with a wonderful book recommendation. I recently read the book, The Collected Regrets of Clover  by Mikki...

It’s been almost three years since I first shared the story of my grandson Eric – his life, his death, and the grief that followed. That...