Amor-tecendo a partida: relato de experiência de uma doulagem da morte.

Abstract

The death doula is someone who knows and understands the physiology of the end-of-life and death process, who respects and ensures the basic needs of the person who is in this stage of life and, above all, respects the choices of this person and her family and friends, supporting informed and conscious decisions. The objective of this study is to report the experience of death doulaage of a patient based on Jean Watson's Theory of Human Care. This is an experience report, of descriptive and qualitative nature of a doulage of death of a patient with a diagnosis of Alzheimer's and clinical aggravation of an Ischemic Stroke (AVI), during the period from November 2019 to March 2020. From the situations experienced, elements of the Clinical Caritas Process were identified that cohere with the practices of death doulas in the face of caring for people in human finitude. It is concluded that the process of death doulas developed through the theory in question provided the researcher-caregiver with the ability to accompany, welcome, support, comfort, guide, respect and offer the patient a good death. It is believed that Jean Watson's Theory can serve as a theoretical reference for the scientific support of the activities and services of death doulas.