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A Death Doula's Guide to a Meaningful End Audiobook
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Most people don’t know how to have a “good death”—but Jane Callahan does.
By day, Jane is a corporate marketer and mom, but by nights and weekends, she works with the almost-dead. As an end-of-life doula, she helps the terminally ill prepare for their imminent demise. And it has revealed invaluable truths about this temporary status called life.
Callahan peels back the curtain of one of our most taboo subjects and walks listeners through various journeys of the dying. In vignettes that weave together patients’ lives—and her own—this book will reveal to listeners all the things they didn’t know (or didn’t know they needed to know) about our last great adventure. Along the way, listeners will uncover knowledge on the raw realities of being mortal and how radical acceptance of the human condition can help us improve our deaths and lives.
Surprisingly funny and often cutting, A Death Doula’s Guide to a Meaningful End shies away from absolutist advice. These stories depict how we live our lives in shades of gray—and how some questions don’t always need answers. As an experienced death doula, Jane has spent years witnessing how our culture’s resistance to talking about death has led to preventable suffering in the last moments of life.
This account of her up-close-and-personal experiences with the emotional, physical, logistical (and dare we say spiritual) aspects of dying shows that when we talk about death, we’re actually talking about life.
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About Jane K. Callahan
Jane Callahan has been a death doula for seven years, initially completing training with the International End-of-Life Doula Association (INELDA). She holds a certificate in End-of-Life Planning from the University of Vermont’s Larner College of Medicine and is also certified by the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance. She has worked with four hospices in two states, and currently volunteers with Transitions LifeCare Hospice in Durham, North Carolina. Callahan holds an MA in English and has been published in PBS’s Next Avenue, Raleigh News and Observer, Commercial Observer, Reno News and Review, Next City, and Edible Reno-Tahoe Magazine.
About Tavia Gilbert
Tavia Gilbert is an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. Named the 2018 Voice of Choice by Booklist magazine, she is also winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. She has earned numerous Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. Audible.com has named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir. In addition to voice acting, she is an accomplished producer, singer, and theater actor. She is also a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral.