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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There are two death rooms at Asphodel, each with their own deathbed. A shroud is laid out on the bed even before the person arrives. When they are laid down on the bed, after passing away, the shroud can then be wrapped around them without need to lift the body. It is an intentional and functional way of creating a deathbed.
