WTF is Hospice with Ann Neumann
So Your Parents Are Old
Vanessa Grigoriadis
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Most of us fear the word “hospice,” but author and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann wants to change that. From morphine spoons to lottery tickets, she shares stories from the bedside that show how hospice can help us reclaim an ancient, almost forgotten skill: caring for each other at the end. Read Ann's book, The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone, Vanessa here. |
| 0:02.4 | So we have had a bit of a technology snafu. |
| 0:07.0 | I apologize. |
| 0:08.7 | This is the kind of thing that maybe your parents would do. |
| 0:12.5 | We actually have two feeds for this podcast, so your parents are old, and we are going to need to delete one of them on Tuesday, |
| 0:24.3 | November 18th. Now, this is only for some people who are listening in Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:32.0 | If you're on a different player, all good, everything's fine. But it does mean that for some Apple podcast listeners, |
| 0:41.0 | it's going to look like this podcast has disappeared from the lists of shows you follow. But I |
| 0:47.1 | promise we're still here. So if you're not getting a new episode on November 18th on Apple |
| 0:53.7 | podcasts, you will have to resubscribe. |
| 0:58.2 | There will be a feed that has a lot more ratings, like 900 ratings and maybe a weird piece of art. |
| 1:06.4 | That is the right feed. |
| 1:08.7 | And if you want to know what's coming out and what's going on, check us out on Substack at joinparents.com. |
| 1:16.1 | We're on Instagram and TikTok as so your parents are old. |
| 1:20.6 | So again, I'm so sorry. |
| 1:23.4 | Tuesday, November 18th, the feed will be changed. |
| 1:29.0 | Big messages. We're still here. |
| 1:31.5 | All right, let's get to the show. |
| 1:38.2 | If you're like me, when you hear the words hospice care, you may become filled with a sense of dread. |
| 1:47.2 | It conjures pictures of Dickensian hospital rooms, old machines plugged into older humans. But maybe that's just because most of us don't really understand what it is. Hospice or end-of-life care actually helps |
| 1:54.2 | the dying in their families get through this most difficult transition with extra support. |
| 2:01.3 | The first thing people tend to misunderstand about hospice is that it's not a place that you |
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