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They Tell You How to Die | The New Journal

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In Connecticut, death doulas aim to ease the transition to the other side.

Susan Clark, age 5, would shiver in her bed. The heat never reached the room on the top floor that she shared with four siblings. In the middle of the night, she braved the stairs in the darkness to use her eldest sister’s bathroom on the floor below. It was that, or peeing in a bucket. That year, her 2-year-old sister died. “She just disappeared,” Clark, whose name has been changed in this story to protect her privacy, said sixty years later. “My parents never talked about it. She was just gone, gobbled up in the night.” Clark never found out what happened to her sister, only that her…

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