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Alua Arthur
Founder and Death Doula, Going with Grace
Alua Arthur is a death doula, attorney, and founder of Going with Grace, a death doula training and end-of-life planning organization. Going with Grace supports people as they answer the question, “What must I do to be at peace with myself so that I may live presently and die gracefully?” Going with Grace works to improve and redefine the end-of-life experience for people rooted in every community, using the individual’s lived experience as the foundation. Arthur was a keynote speaker at EndWell 2019 and has been featured in the LA Times, Vogue, Refinery29, The Doctors, and InStyle.
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Despite knowing that death is the common thread that unites us all, we tend to keep the topic at arm’s length. Yet acknowledging the inevitability of death, contemplating what...