In 2014, I met Sachiko Mallach. She had metastatic breast cancer and she wanted to add Yoga, Reiki, and Reflexology to her healing practices. She was undergoing chemotherapy and wanted to balance it out with eastern healing. I would go to her home a few times a week and , during these sessions, we became friends. When she had her mastectomy, she asked me to be there. Later, when the cancer travelled to her brain and she had brain surgery, she asked me to be there. Each time she asked, it was a humbling full body yes and the honor of my life to offer her support. So, when she asked me to be her death doula, I said yes, without knowing what that meant. Sachi died before I had the chance to learn, and it broke my heart to not be able to support her in the way she needed and in my guilt and regret, I put the idea to rest. In 2023, I was invited to a film screening of "The Last Ecstatic Days," a film about the last days and death of 36 year old Ethan Sisser. I cried the entire way through, thinking of my friend and watching the profound, compassionate care of the death doulas that companioned Ethan. I enrolled in an end-of-life-doula course 2 days later and never looked back.