Planning and support around a dying process

End-of-life doulas ease the passage away from life as we know it. With formal training and support from accredited organisations, we can help you prepare yourself or your loved one for death consciously. This includes preparing yourself emotionally, physically and mentally, as well as ensuring practical preparations are made so grief is not too complicated by administration. This is for someone facing a terminal diagnosis or looking towards the end of their life, and the people around them. Support is available in person on Madeira or online, wherever you are in the world.

How we can help

Practical help

Wills, powers of attorney, advance directives, funeral and digital legacy planning, and coordinating dying at home, with signposting to legal professionals where needed.

Reducing suffering

Mapping your care preferences, connecting you with clinicians and complementary therapies, and advocating for your wishes in medical settings.

Emotional support

Compassionate accompaniment, life review and legacy work, and help preparing the people you love for their next chapter.

How your plan comes together

  1. Roadmap meeting1.5 hours. You receive a written plan with the phases that suit you, an estimate of the hours for each, and what it will cost. If you go ahead within 30 days, the fee is credited in full.
  2. Your plan, phase by phaseEvery plan is built around the person and their family, so no two look alike. Begin with the phases you need now and add others later, or not at all. Most phases are billed by the hour, so you pay for the support you use.

Services and prices

Exploratory Call

Online by phone or video

Best for: anyone who wants to ask a few questions first. Twenty minutes.

What’s included
  • A review of your situation
  • Whether we're the right fit for you
  • Signposting to what's next
  • No obligation to continue
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Free20 mins

Your plan is put together from the phases below. You can start with one and add others as things change.

Plan

Roadmap meeting

Online or in person

Best for: turning what matters to you into a written plan. One and a half hours.

What’s included
  • A 1.5-hour meeting with Leila to explore your aims, requirements and priorities
  • Afterwards, you receive a clear roadmap of what matters most to you, the phases that suit you, the hours each may take, and what it will cost if you decide to proceed with Reverie's support
  • If you go ahead within 30 days, the fee is credited in full against your plan
€1201.5 hrs

Prepare

PrepareWishes and Affairs, Care, People and Meaning

Wishes and Affairs

Online or in person

Best for: getting your wishes and affairs in order, with or without a diagnosis.

What’s included
  • A written record of your wishes for care, treatment and the end of your life
  • Advance care planning, worked through alongside your clinicians
  • Assistance compiling your will and other legal documents, with signposting to notaries or lawyers
  • A digital legacy plan: your accounts, photographs and messages, and what happens to them
  • A list of your important papers, passwords and access instructions, and where they are kept, so your family knows where to look
About 8 hrsbilled hourly

Care

Online or in person

Best for: dying at home or in a care setting, and the family arranging it.

What’s included
  • Coordination with your carers, clinicians and hospice
  • The home and the room set up for comfort and dignity
  • A respite plan, so the family can rest
  • Regular check-ins as things change
About 12 hrsbilled hourly

People and Meaning

Online or in person

Best for: the conversations that are hard to start.

What’s included
  • Facilitated conversations with family and loved ones
  • Life review, closure and forgiveness
  • The rituals, readings and music you want around you
About 8 hrsbilled hourly

Each plan states its own estimate of hours for every phase, so you know what to expect before you begin.

Pass

The final weeksOn-call support, Vigil & Bedside Support, Death and the first 72 hours

When death is expected within weeks, three kinds of support are available, each with its own price. On-call support means you can reach us by phone at any hour. Vigil & Bedside Support is someone in the room. Death and the first 72 hours covers the day itself and the days after. Choose any or all of them.

On-call support

By phone

Best for: families who want someone to call at any hour once the final weeks begin. By phone, with visits in Madeira booked separately. Charged by the week.

What’s included
  • Starts when you and the clinical team agree the final weeks have begun, and ends at the death
  • Call us day or night as often as you need, with calls included in the weekly price
  • Guidance on what to expect, and who to call and when
  • Visits are booked separately, as Vigil & Bedside Support
€125per week

Vigil & Bedside Support

In person in Madeira

Best for: dedicated bedside presence in the final days. Booked by the half day (4 hours), full day (8 hours) or overnight (10 hours).

What’s included
  • A steady presence in the room, holding the atmosphere you've planned: music, readings, ritual
  • Non-medical comfort, and the judgement to bring in a clinician when needed
  • Rest for the family, knowing someone is with their person
€160–400half day to overnight

Death and the first 72 hours

In person in Madeira

Best for: families who want someone with them through the first hours and days after a death. One fixed fee, covering up to 12 hours, then the hourly rate.

What’s included
  • Being with you at, or soon after, the death
  • Help with the first calls to the doctor and the funeral director
  • Support for the family, and a ritual or quiet moment if you wish
  • A follow-up within three days
€500up to 12 hrs, then hourly

Add-ons

Legacy Project add-on

Online or in person

Something lasting: leaving something of yourself, or gathering something of a person you’ve lost. Add it to your planning, grief support or work on mortality, or book it on its own.

What’s included
  • Help compiling tangible mementos or keepsakes, including but not limited to:
    • A memory book
    • Letters to the people you choose
    • Audio or video recordings
    • An ethical will: the values, hopes and blessings you want to pass on
Up to 4 hrsbilled hourly

Pet therapy add-on

In person in Madeira

Romeow, an experienced therapy cat, can accompany Leila to visits if you would like.

Freeno cost, optional

All prices in euros. Hourly support is €40 an hour, unless otherwise stated. This is an introductory rate for our first clients. See how pricing and plans work.

Reverie offers non-medical comfort measures only: no medication, no wound care, no clinical intervention. Anything beyond that scope is referred to the right clinician. Reverie does not give legal or financial advice.

Contact us

Would you like support from a doula? Have you got questions? We are here for you.

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