"What I Learned About Life from Death | Jane Whitlock | TEDx Minneapolis"
- Jane Whitlock
- Aug 8, 2025
- 1 min read
"What I Learned About Life from Death | Jane Whitlock | TEDx Minneapolis" on YouTube is a perfect, light hearted explanation of the type of reasoning that can be attained when working with a death doula.
"Birth and death are the sacred bookends to our lives. So why do we prepare so thoughtfully and carefully for one and not at all for the other? Imagine if we treated birth the way we treat death..."
"80% of people say that planning for end of life is a good idea. 27% of people actually have a living will. Of those 27%, only 11% of the people who are responsible for enacting that living will know where it is. This inability to prepare effectively for death has very real consequences. We have hospitals that are full of people on ventilators and feeding tubes, people surrounded by caregivers who feel their only choice is to hope for a miracle because they have no idea what that person would have wanted."
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