Nicole Kidman has revealed her subsequent function: death doula.
The Australian actor revealed she is now training to be a death doula – professionals who present emotional, bodily and psychological assist to the dying – whereas talking on the University of San Francisco.
A doula, sometimes, is a skilled who helps moms throughout being pregnant and childbirth in a non-medical capability. Death doulas have become extra widespread in recent times – one was lately depicted in an episode of The Pitt – with some preferring the time period “end-of-life doula”.
Kidman advised the viewers that the thought to become a death doula got here to her after her mom, Janelle Ann, died aged 84 in 2024.
It “may sound a little weird”, she admitted.
“As my mother was passing, she was lonely, and there was only so much the family could provide,” Kidman mentioned, in accordance to the San Francisco Chronicle. “Between my sister and I, we have so many children and our careers and our work, and wanting to take care of her because my father wasn’t in the world any more, and that’s when I went, ‘I wish there was these people in the world that were there to sit impartially and just provide solace and care.’”
“So that’s part of my expansion and one of the things I will be learning,” she mentioned.
In September 2024, Kidman gained one of the best actress award for her function in Babygirl on the Venice movie pageant, however missed the ceremony to be with household when her mom died. Her father, Antony, died in 2014.
Kidman isn’t alone in Hollywood: the Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao has additionally skilled as a death doula, due to her worry of death.
“I have been terrified of death my whole life. I still am,” Zhao told the New York Times in January. And as a result of I’ve been so afraid I haven’t been ready to reside totally … And as a result of I’m so petrified of it, I’ve no selection however to begin to develop a more healthy relationship with it, or the second half of life can be too exhausting. It shouldn’t be this terrifying that I can’t even reside.”
