{"id":46539,"date":"2019-04-03T20:30:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/?p=46539"},"modified":"2019-04-03T20:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T00:04:05","slug":"midwives-of-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/midwives-of-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Midwives of Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, a Doula &#8211; from the Greek word meaning &#8220;servant-woman&#8221; &#8211; helps bring souls into the world as a midwife for women choosing home birth or hospital alternatives. However, one group is training doulas to participate in end-of-life care, to help escort the living from the world.<\/p>\n<p>What other occupations can be turned on their heads in imaginative ways? What other rituals signifying happy events &#8211; weddings, christenings &#8211; could be altered to give comfort and closure to the dying?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitchmedia.org\/article\/bitch-interview\/marne-lucas-death-doula\">Read the full post at<em> Bitch Media<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@mitja-juraja-357365?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Mitja Juraja<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/skull-970517\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\">Pexels<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditionally, a Doula &#8211; from the Greek word meaning &#8220;servant-woman&#8221; &#8211; helps bring souls into the world as a midwife for women choosing home birth or hospital alternatives. However, one group is training doulas to participate in end-of-life care, to help escort the living from the world. What other occupations can be turned on their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[513],"class_list":["post-46539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-writing-prompts","tag-what-happens-next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46563,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46539\/revisions\/46563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigpulp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}