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Death doula says life is more meaningful if you 'get real' about the end

Alua Arthur helps people plan for death. A big part of her work is helping them reconcile the lives they lived with the lives they might have wanted. Her memoir is called Briefly Perfectly Human.

In Alua Arthur's 2023 TED Talk, she said her ideal death would happen at sunset. Yeofi Andoh/HarperCollins hide caption

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Death doula says life is more meaningful if you 'get real' about the end

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From WHYY in Philadelphia