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's so many different ways of people feeling and owning their dignity in their dying. I think we just offer one way that tries to stick to what the dying person has asked for." South of Lake Washington, the neighborhood that Asphodel is situated in is gentle hills and winding streets lined with family homes. Wrapped in the morning fog these houses are glowing and faded. Each house is made for life and living except for one.
