women who call themselves "death midwives" are facing legal action for using a term that the province's regulator of midwives says applies exclusively to health professionals providing maternity care. Pashta MaryMoon, seen here practising on a live model, says using the term "death midwife" has "nothing to do with being equally credible as birth midwives." "We are basing it on ancient traditions where birth midwives were also the people who took care of the dying.'' "I have a button that says: 'Ask me what is a death midwife.' college have tried to get MaryMoon and Keith to stop calling themselves "death midwives'' before legal action was pursued.

Source: CBC News March 01, 2018 19:52 UTC