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How death doulas ease the final transition

End-of-life caregiving urges us to think about death as natural, not traumatic.

How death doulas ease the final transition
Vivette Jeffries-Logan, left, and Omisade Burney-Scott are death doulas. | YES! photo by Madeline Gray. All rights reserved.
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Vivette Jeffries-Logan and Omisade Burney-Scott are friends for life - and collaborators in death.

Three years ago, when a mutual friend realized she wouldn’t survive pancreatic cancer, the two central North Carolina women were within the circle of friends she summoned.

Over the course of about three months, the women stayed at Cynthia Brown’s side as the community activist and one-time Durham City Council member went about the process of dying.