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.
Moments before arriving at the house Alan and Maggie were researching reincarnation so that they might find a way to be together again. “You know what she said to the family just before she died? I’ll see you soon.” Alan had decided to sit vigil for three days, as is the tradition, to ensure that Maggie would be reincarnated.