Friends and family mourn the death of Alec Dulude after a six-year health battle following a tick bite. “He just lived life large,” his uncle said.
Author: Tatiana Parafiniuk-Talesnick, USA TODAY NETWORK
Making peace with dying: How death doulas in Oregon help terminally ill die on their own terms
In Oregon, the first state to legalize physician-assisted death and supervised magic mushroom use, doulas and volunteers usher people through dying.