With a dad as a mortician, I grew up comfortable talking about death and dying. That experience allows me to take on and discuss work most people put off: sitting with a parent over the file cabinet, helping adult children have the conversation they've been postponing, walking the household inventory with someone who knows it will eventually be theirs to handle.
I have gone through the documents and process with my own parents. I know how the conversation actually goes. I know which questions stop people, and which ones move them through. And as a recently-certified Death Doula with a brother who runs an estate planning law firm, my experience and family connections give me access to a network of attorneys, financial planners, and probate specialists that few independent practitioners can claim.