How to Die Well: A Death Doula's Guide
Victoria Holmes has spent over a decade sitting with the dying. What she has seen is consistent: nobody talks about their taxes.
What does it actually mean to die well?
Victoria Holmes has spent over a decade as a death doula, sitting with people in their final moments and watching what matters and what doesn't. What she has seen is consistent: nobody talks about their taxes. Nobody wishes they had worked harder. They talk about love, connection, and the things they felt.
Her story starts at 19, surviving a suicide bombing in Bangladesh, then rowing across the Atlantic alone. What she found at the edge of life and death set the course for everything that followed: a decade of sitting with the dying, and the realisation that the chaos families face at the end of life is almost always preventable.
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About the practitioner
Victoria Holmes
Birth & Death Doula
15 years at the beginning and end of life. She will sit bedside with the dying, be with your family in the room, and stay when everyone else goes home.
Victoria’s practitioner profileOtherside Life coordinates; care is provided by the practitioner. Coordination only. Not legal, tax, financial, medical advice or funeral services.