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