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The Privilege of Accompanying People in Their Sacred Time of Dying - with Yanna Hanson
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In this episode we speak with Yanna Hanson. Yanna is a death doula and currently specializes as a volunteer with end-of-life Washington. Helping terminal patients navigate the medical aid in dying process.
She is often present when they take the life-ending medications. Yana also helps educate clients about another life-ending choice, that of V-S-E-D, which is voluntarily stopping eating and drinking.
After raising her own five children, Yana became an RN, providing post-op care for pediatric patients, but she often felt called to hospice nursing.
When she retired, she became a hospice volunteer. Four years ago, she completed a death-doula training with Bodhi Be, and since then has been supporting patients through her association with the end-of-life Washington.
She spoke of two authors who have written about end of life. Stephen Jamison who wrote "Final Acts of Love: Families, Friends, and Assisted Dying"
And Catherine Dowling Singh who has many important books.
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