An end-of-life doula is like a midwife at the other end of life, helping people and/or their families make the transition from life to death by providing emotional, spiritual and practical support. Treza Gallogly, who chairs the End-of-Life Doula Alliance Aotearoa, tells Emily Simpson about what the role requires and what she's learned from it.

Sherie Sullivan, ELDAA professional doula and committee member talks about how in communities across the region, more families are quietly rethinking how they care for one another at the end of life.

ELDAA: New Zealand’s Professional End of Life Doula Body Responds to Care Gap. “As EOLD’s we are responsive. We fill the gaps. We come with compassion and neutrality and we find out the best way to support people in accordance with who they are and what they wish. We honour the deeply human experience of dying. It’s about ensuring that every New Zealander has the chance to die with dignity, in the way that feels right for them and their whānau (family).”   Treza Gallogly and

Hospice Dying Reviews ELDAA Professional Doula Deborah McCullough supported Hospice NZ with the release of their Dying Reviews campaign. Dying Reviews looks at how well businesses and organisations in New Zealand handle situations with their clients / customers when dying or death is involved. She shared her experiences from when her husband Steve was unwell and after he passed. TV1 News 15 October 2025 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PmpN9EzyqhEmxDZkF-OTOOEjF03wJbOw/view

ELDAA Professional Doula Deborah McCullough talks to LawNews about her journey to becoming a Death Doula .

Treza Gallogly, sat down with Chris Chang and Jennie-May Clarkson on the TVNZ Breakfast Show, to talk about End of Life Doulas—and how we can better support our communities and care systems. It’s so heartening to hear these conversations happening at a national level, as recognition grows that we need more support—emotional, cultural, spiritual, and practical.

This week (September 1 – 7) is Dying Matters Week Aotearoa. It’s a week to connect people across the motu, to start conversations in a...

Pacific families in NZ can honour their loved ones without breaking the bank ‘You don’t need to literally pay your respects’: Concern and...

It's a subject that many find uncomfortable, but is a necessity - how to handle the end of life. Amid the grief and challenges of how to...

Belinda Price and Kim Maunder are helping facilitate Dying Matters Week in Taranaki this week.

Dying Matters week is all about facing one of the inevitable parts of life : Death.

End of life doula and death coach Sherie Sullivan is bringing the national event, Dying Matters Week, to Mangawhai next month. Click the...

When Renate Neumann was told she had terminal cancer, she had no idea what to do. Then she met Sarah Campbell-Simpson.

Treza Gallogly, End-of-Life Doula & Chair of ELDAA on #PacificDays  shining the spotlight on the many issues facing Pacific Island...

Sovereignty in dying  Sherie Sullivan, end-of-life doula, is coordinating various events in Mangawhai and Wellsford for Dying Matters...

Death Cafes and their Purpose, Compass FM in Canterbury interviews ELDAA Professional Member Liz Adcock-White about the rise of Death...

NZ Herald July 2025 Eva de Jong interviews with Kelly Woods (End of Life Doula, Debt Without Debt presenter, Celebrant), and Treza...

Mangawhai Memo June 2025 Sherie Sullivan writes the first of a series of articles for her local community on all aspects of dying and...

Group calls for change to ease Cost of Dying Gaylene Delaney, EOL Doula, is interviewed about her Death Without Debt workshops, and...

Bay of Plenty times February 2025 Rebecca Mauger talks to End of Life Doula Gaylene Delaney about her workshops to educate communities...