{"id":150332,"date":"2023-04-26T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T15:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=150332"},"modified":"2023-04-27T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-27T13:46:59","slug":"the-work-of-a-death-doula-in-northern-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/the-work-of-a-death-doula-in-northern-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"The work of a death doula in northern BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Wagner is sitting in her Vanderhoof home office. Her 200 pound mastiff sits in the background, quietly waiting to be acknowledged. Jackie is holding a large duffle bag which she calls her \"Mary Poppins bag\", referring to the assortment of items she keeps with her at all times. \"Sometimes I'll enter a room and people haven't left the bedside for days. They haven't showered, they're exhausted, and so I have little soaps and diffusers that I bring for that.\"<\/p>\n<p>Jackie is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.endoflifedoulaassociation.org\/\">death doula<\/a>. She defines her job as \"a concierge to the dying\".<\/p>\n<p>As a job, being a death doula (or end-of life doula, dying guide, soul midwife) means responding to the call of the dying or their loved ones. She can get a call or text at any time of day or night, and responds very quickly to get to the aid of the person nearing end of life.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Alberta, Jackie, her husband, and her son moved to Vanderhoof for her husband's job. She quickly connected with the local hospice and became a trusted and welcome addition to the people who work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/vanderhoofhospice.ca\/wp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanderhoof Hospice Society<\/a>. Jackie makes it clear that her job is \"not to be part of the medical team\", but rather as a helping hand as nurses and doctors are already so busy.<\/p>\n<p>She hopes to continue to work closely with the hospice society in Vanderhoof.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Listen to the full interview with Jackie Wagner below.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Wagner is sitting in her Vanderhoof home office. Her 200 pound mastiff sits in the background, quietly waiting to be acknowledged. Jackie is holding a large duffle bag which she calls her &#8220;Mary Poppins bag&#8221;, referring to the assortment of items she keeps with her at all times. &#8220;Sometimes I&#8217;ll enter a room and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":150357,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,219,223],"tags":[24808,5889],"radio":[245],"origine":[280,263,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150332"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150332"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150581,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150332\/revisions\/150581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150332"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=150332"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=150332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}