{"id":22727,"date":"2024-04-18T08:04:38","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22727"},"modified":"2024-04-18T08:04:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T12:04:40","slug":"death-doula-says-life-is-more-meaningful-if-you-get-real-about-the-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=22727","title":{"rendered":"Death doula says life is more meaningful if you &#8216;get real&#8217; about the end"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Tonya Mosley for NPR)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a death doula, Alua Arthur helps people to plan for the end of life and, when the time comes, to let go. She says that while we&#8217;re conditioned to fear death, thinking and talking about it is instrumental to creating meaningful lives.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/04\/17\/1245264129\/death-doula-alua-arthur-briefly-perfectly-human\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/04\/17\/1245264129\/death-doula-alua-arthur-briefly-perfectly-human\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"54\" class=\"wp-image-3902\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo.png 152w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/NPR-logo-150x55.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Tonya Mosley for NPR) As a death doula, Alua Arthur helps people to plan for the end of life<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,34],"tags":[92,1264,316],"class_list":["post-22727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aging","category-end-of-life","tag-aging","tag-death-doula","tag-end-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22728,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22727\/revisions\/22728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}