Welcome to The Violet Vulture!
It's a solo episode today talking about something I've been putting off discussing for a while now due to fear of shame or backlash: how can I, a devoted Death Doula, find "Death Positive" to be a term that really doesn't do it for me anymore? And, admittedly, I unpack why it might never have been terribly aligned in the first place.
In this episode, we'll get into the following and then some:
More background on what got me into being a Death Doula
We define Death Positive in a nutshell
Where having a term like "death positive" has its strengths
And, of course, we get into plenty of the limitations and where I think it falls short
I give y'all some of the deets on my near-death experience
The importance of scaling your work to your community
The value in putting a higher premium on prioritizing connection and community care over having perfect language
Validation for those that agree and what alternatives might be more lined up with you (and validation if you're a die hard "death positive" stan)
CN for death talk, medical trauma, mentions of violence and climate crisis
If you're keen to get the hot goss on why I'm not about this popular term as much these days, this one is for you.
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