Nicole Kidman is training to be a ‘death doula’. What is a death doula?
- Written by Symon Braun Freck, PhD Candidate, School of Engineering, DeathTech Research Team, The University of Melbourne
This week, Nicole Kidman revealed she is training to become a death doula. She told an audience at the University of San Francisco it “may sound a little weird”, but she was inspired after her mother died in 2024.
Observing how her family wasn’t able to provide the support they hoped they could, Kidman wished there were...





