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Books, Articles, Videos, and Interviews

Articles
By Merilynne Rush
  • The End-of-Life Doula, by Merilynne Rush, Generations, American Society on Aging, October 2022
  • How End-of-Life Doulas Can Be of Service to LGBTQ Adults, by Merilynne Rush, Sagecare, August 2020
  • ​Describing the End-of-Life Doula Role and Practices of Care: Perspectives from Four Countries, by Marian Krawczyk and Merilynne Rush, in Palliative Care and Social Practice, Dec. 7, 2020
  • Full Moon Funeral, by Merilynne Rush, Ann Arbor Observer, March 2013

Featuring Merilynne Rush
  • ​What Are End of Life Doulas? by Eve Glicksman, WebMD, February 26, 2022
  • Death Doulas Used to Be Rare; The Covid-19 Pandemic Changed That by Melissa Chan, Time, January 26, 2022
  • Death Doulas Could Bridge Gaps to Hospice by Holly Vossel, Hospice News, November 18, 2020
  • Interview with Merilynne Rush, by Rachel Drummond, Healthcaredegree.com, May 11, 2020
  • Learning to Serve the Dying, by Gatwiri Muthara, AARP, Oct. 8, 2019​
  • Health Careers on the Rise: The Doulas Coaching Patients through Life…and Death
  • Having a Funeral at Home, Not at a Funeral Home, by Ann Zaniewski, Detroit Free Press, January 11, 2015
  • A Matter of Mortality (about Ann Arbor Death Cafe), by Jennifer Xu, Hour Detroit, October, 2013
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  • She Preached Death Without Fear. Could She Practice It? NY Times, December 9, 2022
  • Death Doulas Mind the Gap Between Life and Death, by Donna Baker, athensmessenger.com, October 25, 2022
  • Meet the People Who Ease the Process of Death: End-of-Life Doulas by Anita Rao and Kaia Findlay, WUNC, Chapel Hill NC, April 22, 2022
  • End of Life Doulas – Compassionate Support and Expert Guidance for Your Family Through the Sacred Journey of Aging and End of Life, by Adrian Allotey, New Jersey Advocates for Aging Well, September 12, 2022
  • Death Doulas Used to be Rare. Covid 19 Pandemic Changed That, by Melissa Chan, Time.com, January 26, 2022
  • Is There Room in the Hospice team for an End-of-Life Doula? by Gabrielle Elise Jimenez, TheHospiceHeart.com, July 16, 2021
  • How End-of-Life Doulas Help Ease the Final Transition by Virginia Chang, Scientific American, June 19, 2021
  • Death Doulas Adapt to Pandemic to Provide End-of-Life Support, by Robin L. Flanigan, AARP, July 9, 2021
  • Death cafes, doulas and dolma: Meet the woman bringing dignity to the end of life by Indlieb Farazi Saber, Middle East Eye, January 12, 2021
  • ‘Death Doulas’ Provide Aid at the End of Life by Abby Ellin, New York Times, June 25, 2021
  • Being With and Caring For Those Who Are Dying by Andrea Sherman, Samye Institute, February 27, 2020​
  • They Tell You How to Die by Candice Wang, The New Journal of Yale and New Haven, February 27, 2020
  • How Do You Foster a Good Death in a Racist Society, by Chace Beech, Yahoo! News, June 25, 2020
  • This LA death doula is bringing comfort to the dying and grieving during the pandemic by Kim Kelly, Insider, May 7, 2020
  • Being With and Caring For Those Who Are Dying by Andrea Sherman, Samye Institute, February 27, 2020​
  • The Movement to Bring Death Closer by Maggie Jones, The New York Times, January 13, 2020
  • Doulas Are Becoming Part of the End-of-Life Equation by Hannah Hagemann, Morning Edition, NPR, January 3, 2020
  • The Calling by Lucinda Herring, Parabola, January 30, 2019
  • A Day in the Life of an End-of-Life Doula, from Next Avenue, May 23, 2017

About Natural Death Care (Home Funeral/Green Burial)
  • In These Cemeteries, Nature Also Rests in Peace by Xander Peters, National Geographic, April 2022
  • ​From Dust You Came and to Dust You Shall Return by Raquel G. Frolich, Bull Magazine, June 2022
  • Saving the Environment and Cash Through Green Burials by Lindsay Kalter, MedScape, April 4, 2022
  • Green Burial as an Act of Faith by Dawn Arauja-Hawkins, The Christian Century, July 6, 2021
  • Put Me In a Wooden Box by Nick Wooten, Associated Press/The Ledger Enquirer, April 24, 2021
  • What It's Like to Have a Funeral at Home by Christina Leimer, NextAvenue, March 24, 2021
  • The ‘green death’ movement: Scientific advances give more eco-friendly funeral options by Emily Gillespie, Fortune Magazine, April 9, 2020
  • Going Green: Why some are letting nature do its thing when it comes to burials by Alex Cooke, Racked, February 24, 2020
  • ​Eco-Friendly Cemeteries? More People Preferring Green…, by Alex Brown, Washington Post, Nov. 30, 2019
  • Kate’s Still Here, by Libby Copeland, Esquire, Nov. 14, 2017
  • Green Burials Bring Awareness to Environmental Concerns, by Allyson Chiu, U.S. News and World Report, 3-4-16​
  • Home Funeral: An Unusual Gift of Time and Space, by June Kellum, Epoch Times, November 14, 2014
  • Ashes to Ashes, But First, A Nice Pine Box, by Jeffrey Piehler, NYT, February 1, 2014
Videos & Podcasts
Featuring Merilynne Rush
  • ​Watch us on WXYZ Detroit Channel 7, February 1, 2023
  • ​End of Life Studies Interview Series, University of Glasgow, July 2021
  • Virtual Funerals and Memorials: How and Why to Hold Them, EOL University, April 12, 2021
  • End-of-life Doula Case Study, NHPCO ECHO Project webinar, March 31, 2021
  • Circle of Care, with Amy Wright Glenn of The Institute for Birth, Breath and Death, June 12, 2020
  • Death Care at Home and At a Distance, EOL University, April 13, 2020
  • Home Funerals and Natural Burials, EOL University, October 13, 2014
Others
  • Ask a Death Doula, with Lee Webster by Suzanne O’Brien, Doulagivers, January 30, 2019
  • A Husband’s Final Goodbye to his Wife 
  • Steelmantown Green Cemetery
  • NPR with Ellen Goodman and Lee Webster on advance planning
  • Podcast Interview with Lee Webster on the National Home Funeral Alliance, Karen Wyatt, MD, 8.13.15 End of Life University
  • #TalkDeath Episode 5: Who Owns Your Body with Tanya Marsh and Lee Webster, YouTube Qeepr
  • Open air cremation, Creststone, CO​
Merilynne on the Radio
  • ​​WWJ Detroit, about Home Funeral
  • ​Michigan Radio, about Green Burial
  • Michigan Radio, about Death Cafe
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“Merilynne met with my family at our home when my grandmother was dying. We’re so grateful that she helped us learn how to do this naturally. It was just perfect.” —Sierra 
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