Death Midwifery


CINDEA‘s definition of Death Midwifery


In the simplest sense, a modern-day death midwife is a facilitator, who offers a continuum of direct and integrated guidance and support to the death journeyer and their family throughout a personalized and participatory pan-death process.Although traditionally this role was considered women’s work, today men also serve as death midwives (as they also do as birth midwives).The CINDEA definition seeks to honour and parallel the role of a birth midwife — while acknowledging that the comparable aspects of a death midwife’s role to the medical side of a birth midwife’s responsibilities are presently offered by palliative care nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, etc.


https://selfdiscoverymedia.com/2018/10/01/tm-18-40-death-midwifery-journeying-beyond/