Gold: A Place to Die
This story takes place at a house unlike any other in the United States. Each visit is facilitated by a death doula and there are no permanent residents. Terminally ill people visit the house to take a life-ending medication.
This project explores how some people choose to encounter their own death: from community and access, care-giving and medical aid, to the intimate process of dying and the tenderness of grieving.
While death often happens behind closed doors and in clinical settings, these photographs are an invitation to look at an inevitable aspect of life in a new way.
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Ambrose, Maggie's son, speaks with Kristen, the primary death doula for this medical aid in dying ingestion. Ambrose's father, Alan, was stoic and somewhat stubborn. While Amrose was gentler, he came across as uncomfortable and uncertain. His wife, Yana, when required to make decisions around Maggie's death care, was concise and confident. In Maggie's final hours the role of the matriach for the family was clearly passing to Yana.
