Marie Laveau: The Patron Saint of Death Doulas?
Before she was remembered as the Voodoo Queen of New Orleans, Marie Laveau was a healer, nurse, and spiritual caretaker who walked daily between life and death. Her legacy, shaped by faith and service, offers a lineage for today’s death doulas — a reminder that tending the dying has always been sacred work.
All That Remains by Sue Black
In All That Remains, forensic anthropologist Sue Black invites us into a lifetime spent with the dead. Part memoir and part anatomy lesson, her book is unflinching in detail yet deeply reverent, reminding us that honesty about the body can itself be a form of compassion.
We Are All Apprentices of Death: From Recreation to Re-Creation
Explore the difference between recreation and re-creation in deathwork with death doula Jade Adgate, guided by Santa Muerte’s teachings.
