Books, Articles, Videos, and Interviews
Articles
By Merilynne Rush
Featuring Merilynne Rush
About End-of-life Doulas and Death
About Natural Death Care (Home Funeral/Green Burial)
- 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
About End-of-life Doulas and Death
- 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
