Death Doula's: Let's explore the role of a Death Doula and how they help shape the end of life process

Discover the Role of Death Doulas: Perspectives with Sarah Hill
Sarah Hill, a local end-of-life doula, will share her experiences supporting clients during their dying time. Together, we’ll explore the role of a doula and how they help shape and influence the dying experience for clients and their networks of care. Sarah will discuss how death doulas are expanding the cultural conversation around this significant stage of life, empowering individuals to approach their deaths with intention. Learn how doulas complement—but remain distinct from—palliative and hospice care, and discover more about the valuable services they provide.

 As an end-of-life doula, Sarah provides support to those who are dying, and their constellation of caregivers. She approaches her work from an emotionally engaged and intuitively aware place, while also tending to the pragmatic essentials needed at the end of life. Sarah’s path to becoming a doula began in early childhood, but she resisted its pull until her forties. At the height of her consulting career supporting large-scale change management efforts in the corporate sector, the call to pivot to what is arguably the greatest change we each will undergo had become too loud to ignore. Sarah is humbled each day by those she encounters in her work and often marvels at the expansiveness of the human heart. Taking the path less traveled has helped her round out her own edges, too: exchanging achievement for fulfillment is among the best decisions of her life. Sarah began her private practice, East Bay Doula for the Dying, LLC in 2019, and is a founding member of the Bay Area End of Life Doula Alliance (ELDA).

Sarah Hill (she/her/hers)

East Bay Doula for the Dying

eastbaydoulaforthedying@gmail.com | 415.601.5968