Member Profile

AMORir’s End-of-Life Doula Training is a comprehensive, culturally rooted program designed to prepare individuals to accompany others through death, dying, and grief with compassion, clarity, and presence. Grounded in the sociocultural reality of Puerto Rico, the training integrates practical skills, emotional and spiritual support, community-based care, and critical reflection on how we relate to death.

Participants learn how to support individuals and families through end-of-life planning, vigil presence, and bereavement, while also engaging in deep personal work around their own relationship with mortality. The program cultivates doulas who are not only skilled companions, but also agents of cultural transformation—helping to humanize death and expand death literacy within their communities.

Alexander Aldarondo is an end-of-life doula, educator, and the founder and director of AMORir, a Puerto Rico–based nonprofit and the island’s first organized End-of-Life Doula initiative. His work focuses on humanizing the experience of death through education, community care, and direct accompaniment for individuals and families navigating illness, dying, and grief.

Through AMORir, he offers one-on-one end-of-life support, advance care planning, community workshops, and the first culturally rooted End-of-Life Doula training in Puerto Rico. His approach centers dignity, autonomy, and the restoration of community-based care at the end of life.

With over 15 years of experience in education and human development across Puerto Rico and internationally, Alexander integrates cultural transformation, collective learning, and compassionate care to help reimagine how we relate to death as a natural and fundamental part of life.