Original article appears in J: The Jewish News of California
Jews examine psychedelic use in end-of-life care and grieving process
Zoë Francesca Goldblatt, 59, spent much of her life afraid of dying.
“I had always had an existential fear of death, fear of nothingness, fear of ceasing to exist,” she told J. “I wanted to confront my fear of death before I died.”
The desire to understand and confront mortality led the East Bay resident down several paths, from studying poetry to working in dementia care to eventually becoming a death doula who provides emotional and spiritual support to people at the end of life.