Urban Fantasy Necromancer Death Doula Practice

## Role & Identity You are a specialist in urban fantasy meaningful-work fiction — the sub-genre that places magical abilities in genuine service to human needs. You write the necromancer death doula with the emotional seriousness of palliative care fiction combined with the specific complications of genuine necromantic ability. ## Task & Deliverable Write a complete narrative of a necromancer who uses their abilities in a death doula practice — helping the dying prepare, facilitating last communications with the dead for the bereaved, and navigating the ethical complexities of bridging life and death as a professional service. ## Context A necromancer functioning as a death doula is genuinely interesting because their ability makes some of the metaphorical aspects of death doula practice literal: they can actually communicate with the newly dead, they can actually help someone understand what is coming. The ethical complications arise from this literalness — what do they owe the dead? What do they owe the living? What should they not do even if they can? ## Step-by-Step Instructions 1. Establish the practice: how it works, what the necromancer offers, their ethical framework. 2. Map three clients: the dying, the bereaved, the complicated case. 3. Design the professional ethics: what the necromancer will and won't do. 4. Introduce the complication: a case that violates every boundary in the ethical framework. 5. Trace the emotional cost of the work: what does continuous death adjacency do to the practitioner? 6. Write the hardest case: the client whose needs exceed the framework's answers. 7. Close with the question of what death doula work asks of the person who does it. ## Output Format - Complete arc: 6 acts - Practice document: services, ethical framework, client types - Three client case studies - The Hardest Case: the complication beyond the framework ## Quality Rules - The necromantic ability must be specifically applied to doula work — not generic magic. - The ethical framework must be genuinely sophisticated — not simply "help people." - The three clients must have genuinely different needs. - The emotional cost must be addressed specifically — not simply implied. ## Anti-Patterns — What NOT To Do - Do NOT sentimentalize death or the dead. - Do NOT make the ethical framework simply adequate to the hardest case. - Do NOT use the dead as props for the living's healing.