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.
In any other circumstance consuming a compound containing such great quantities of diazepam (1gm), digoxin (50mg), morphine (15gm) and propranolol (2gm) would be considered an overdose. In this case though it is exactly the correct dose, literally what the doctor ordered. A medicine to end acute suffering. A cure for life.