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Death Walker, Death Talker, Podcast Host, Public Speaker, Death Advocate Dying your Way, Death Body Channeling Author, Kids 2
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If Doctors save lives I do the Opposite.
Meet Paula A/ Death Walker, Death Talker & Thanatologist
Hello and welcome to my safe place to talk death. Let me start by giving a little more context to the above statement. If Doctors save lives then I'd do the opposite.
I walk those whose lives are terminal and the quality is not worth living the time out. They and I choose together to let them choose when, where, and how to die.
I am a Gulfport-based death doula who openly hosts Death Talks nationwide. I have trained in many parts of the world; including Estonia, Mexico, Finland, and Croatia. I belong to the INELDA and also became certified in the USA. When covid hit my calling became the focus, especially in this country.
I have been published in several articles along with a feature ongoing story for Spectrum 9 News.
I began my journey when I was in my 20s but I was always drawn to death as a child. I knew when the animals on the ranch were sick and that would die soon. This was also true for our household pets. When a litter of kitty’s or doggies were born I could feel and sense the ones that weren’t going to live. My mom and grams were my guides in helping me honor and understand this gift. They gave me the name of DeathWalker. I was the one who stayed with the being until it no longer was in this time and place.
I would speak to them tell them what was happening and hold them to let them know that someone was with them. My gift blossomed to people with my grams. When I touch or brush them slightly I get a vibration and then an image or word of the problem. She was the first person to walk with till she died. My mom helped me of course. My hands are a key instrument or tool for me. Hand channeling as my grams called it. I'm sure there is a more new age word but I am fine with what my ancestors taught me.
Death was never a fearful thing in my family it was as natural as living. I was taught death through everyday happenings. The garden was a big tool along with a means to eat. Death was highlighted through the seasons and what sprouted to life, harvested at full bloom, then wilted and died in the cold of winter but only to be reborn in the next coming season. I learned that death is brilliant neither could exist without the other.
My family talked of ways they wanted to die, and places to be buried or washed away. Going out on our terms was always the key point. I traveled to Estonia, Latvia, Canada, Mexico, Finland and a few other European countries to study and learn their ways of death and dying for their people. I found out how brutal we are as a nation to our people. We are kinder to our animals than we are to our loved ones when it comes to death in this country. We are so far behind still in the dark ages plus let us not forget it’s also about the money.
Once COVID hit this country I found myself at the local nursing home walking as many as I was allowed to their death.
I am a professional speaker both in person and remotely. I work to help people come to terms with death and dying on their terms. I'm a consultant about all things death. I also have a mission to reach out to the communities to help build a new way to come to terms with death. It takes a village. I'm also starting a project to teach kids and parents how to talk about death. Book in the works for kids. I will also be illustrating.
I offer advocacy, legacy projects, Death rituals, life plans, vigil sitting, organized material planning, and medicine woman death walks. My gift is walking them to the veil. When we touch or brush them slightly I get a vibration and then an image or word of the problem.
I am working with dying with dignity in FL, MAID. My take on suicide is not what one thinks. It's not being dead that scares us, it's getting dead that freaks us out. We all die, period. This country has us trying so hard to defeat death and cheat it that we don't realize how brilliant and cosmic death is.
I come from a medicine woman heritage my grams with a pagan mom. I was taught to embrace birth and embrace death; they are the same. Come find me and I'll explain it all.
Thank you.
Gabber Publications July 2022
Go grab a Gabber weekly Newspaper to see the first of an ongoing set of interviews about being a death doula and how much our community and country are going to come to rely on us. The article written by Abby was outstanding.
St. Petersburg resident and death expert Paula Adams is quick to discuss the topic of dying. She serves Pinellas County as a doula and hopes to host “death talks” in Gulfport.
Voyage Tampa Magazine
Today we’d like to introduce you to Paula Adams.
Hi Paula, thanks for joining us today. We’d love for you to introduce yourself.
I started my death doula as a child. I didn’t know it at the time. My grams and mom were both holistic medicine women; I was dubbed the death talker and walker. My grams showed me the beauty of death; my mom talked me through each stage. Most of it started with my animals dying on the farm. Later I would like my grams and my mom, all before I was 24.
Spectrum News 9 Interview
I was recently interviewed by Spectrum news with a client about what being a death doula is. We started in my home with a very nice crew who were so respectful and kind. It was quite the morning. We then carried on the interview with a fellow to my first Death Talk in Gulfport FL.
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