The end-of-life doula: Making smooth the paths of people on the journey to death
For the Rev. Beth Stotts, death is a natural part of her ministry, where she embraces "humbling and powerful" work of guiding people at the end of life.
For the Rev. Beth Stotts, death is a natural part of her ministry. A major aspect of her job is guiding her congregants through their most vulnerable moments from birth throughout life. The struggles she has seen in her community led her to seek more training to help people face death, and in 2022 she added another credential to her spiritual one: end-of-life doula.
“I wanted to be a part of the process of facilitating tough conversations and normalizing [everything],“ said Stotts, a pastor at the Central Square Congregational Church in Bridgewater, Mass., since 2012. “A lot of that turmoil and grief could be taken care of by pre-planning and by discussions.”
