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Redesigning End-of-Life Care: What can death teach us about living? | Alexander Aldarondo, AMORir

Redesigning End-of-Life Care: What can death teach us about living? | Alexander Aldarondo, AMORir6 Oct1 h 01 min

"Let's talk about death, because life is urgent." -- Alex Aldarondo What if facing death honestly is how we learn to live more fully? In this episode of Grief and Light™, Nina Rodriguez sits down with Alexander Aldarondo Jiménez, an end-of-life doula, educator, and founder of AMORir, Puerto Rico's first end-of-life doula collective. Joining from Puerto Rico, Alex explains what a death doula does, why dying has become so medicalized and transactional, and how communities can reclaim it as some...