Death & Birds: Chloe Hope

Personal notes on my reposting of Chloe Hope's Substack of Death & Birds.

The Universality of Death

If you aren't already familiar with Chloe Hope and her writing at Death & Birds, it's my pleasure to introduce an exceptional writer. Chloe works as an end-of-life doula and volunteers for a wildlife rescue organization. The one, quiet attendance of souls uncoiling, the other, the delicate feeding of hatchling robins from the fine tip of a paintbrush. Death and birds. Yet, her writing is about both and neither. Let me say you won’t be “skimming.”

I discovered her through a quote that read "How we relate to our Dead directly effects how we relate to our Death." It was an essay about the thoughtless destruction of flowers on her mother's grave and her follow up with an indifferent and preoccupied vicar. The second piece I read was about caring for an elderly woman that had fallen in the street and the hours she spent holding her waiting for an ambulance to come. The second time I hit the Subscribe button before I ran the risk of not finding my way back.

Her work isn't precious. It isn't r…