Death doulas or soul midwives have increased in popularity in recent years. What do they do?

Learn why career interest is surging for Death Doulas after actress Nicole Kidman announced that she was in training to become one, following the death of her mother.

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Nicole Kidman's recent announcement that she's training to become a death doula is increasing visibility for the profession ...

Award-winning actress Nicole Kidman, 58, recently announced that she was training to become a death doula. Kidman says her ...

With death being an inevitable eventuality for everyone, the technology applications for enhancing and supporting the death care industry was a foregone eventuality. While the deathcare industry is ...

Kimberly Wamba realized what she wanted to do with her life while watching members of her family die. She always had a desire to help people, a desire that started in childhood watching her ...

New Jersey could be the 14th state to allow human composting. Advocates say the option is more eco-friendly than burial or cremation. New Jersey resident Jayme Strasburger chose to compost her mother ...

As global populations transition into what has been called the “longevity society,” caring for the aging and dying has prompted the emergence of an unusual self-care movement promising improved ...

Kheirbek is a professor of medicine and the inaugural division head of gerontology, geriatrics, and palliative medicine at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Bullets tore through Michael ...