A woman with a fear of dying has become death doula to help people coming to the end of their life - after losing her mum to a brain tumour. Morgan Everitt, 33, was “frightened of death” growing up and would “think about it all the time”.
But she had to face her fear head on when her mum, Paula, 61, was told a rare benign brain tumour – an acoustic neuroma – she first battled when Morgan was little had grown with a "vengeance" when Morgan was 24. Morgan spent the next two years, looking after her mum with her dad, Dan, 67, and sister, Dana, 35, before Paula passed away in 2016 from the tumour.
Paula was "completely paralysed by the end" and although Morgan found the process “extremely painful” she said it being by her side “felt like the most meaningful thing to do”. After “learning so much” from the process she started to research more and read books on the subject before taking up a death doula programme at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York, US, in 2019.
