My work in end of life care is inspired by the essential truth and yearning for intimacy and authenticity that we find ourselves in as we face our mortality. I’m looking at what’s real in the moment, the truth of the present moment. And that’s where we can learn about our living - to be as present as possible, to live while we’re living, and to live until we die.
The loved ones we call the dead
depart from us and for a while are absent. And then as if
called back by our love, they come
near us again. They enter our dreams.
We feel they have been near us
when we have not thought of them.
They are simply here, simply waiting
while we are distracted among
our obligations. At last
it comes to us: They live now
in the permanent world.
We are the absent ones.
Patient Choices Vermont
Death Doula work in Vermont
Patient Choices Vermont (PCV) is dedicated to education about Medical Aid in Dying and end-of-life choice in Vermont.
Vermont's Patient Choice at End of Life Law (Act 39), enacted in May 2013, enables people who are terminally ill and who are capable of making their own medical decisions the option to request and receive medication that they can use to bring about a peaceful death if and when they so choose.
Margaret's Qualifications
National End-of-Life Doula Alliance (NEDA)
