Become seed.

the hyper-medicalization of birth and death pose great challenges to all of us. They pose challenges to doulas working to improve the quality of birthing and dying. While many of our ancestors experienced profound intersections of life’s bookends, today very few of us are born and die in a space that is personally meaningful, holding memories of ou

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Every human death feels unnatural. Even the peaceful passing of elderly relatives who’ve lived rich lives and completed the full circuit of experiences we all feel entitled to—work, marriage, children, vacations, holidays—are attended by a grief so massive that it slips our processes of rational cognition. It hits us obliquely, and never chronologi... See more

After all is said and done for our present pandemic, many thousands of people will be dead and the living will be burdened with a deep recession. Cheap solutions for end-of-life services will be sought and many will turn to the cheapest infrastructure they know of: the web. Streaming services and asynchronous rites will be used to pay the dead thei... See more