In 2025, I learned how to die well from a Death Doula.
Most of us spend our lives pretending death isn’t coming. A Death Doula makes you look it straight in the eye.
This interview wasn’t really about dying. It was about the messy, beautiful, terrifying thing we do until then: Living.
Myra Daniels, Death Doula
I spent time with Myra Daniels, a death doula whose work lives in the quiet space most of us avoid thinking about. Sitting with her meant talking plainly about dying: what people fear, what they regret, and what they cling to at the very end. There was nothing morbid about it. In fact, it felt grounding.
To Myra, death isn’t a failure or an emergency, but a human process deserving care, dignity, and honesty. That conversation reframed the way I think about life itself: how much of it we postpone, how little we’re taught to prepare, and how powerful it can be to face the inevitable without flinching. This wasn’t a story about death. It was a story about how we learn to live when we finally stop looking away.