That Difficult Conversation Called Death: Hospice and Palliative Care (Part 1)

Barbara Busch recently made headlines with her death. Not because it was one of those typical celebrity deaths: suicide, heroine overdose or taxes! But because in the days leading up to her death she chose comfort care, also know as palliative care, and to die at home instead of continuing on with medical treatment to prolong her life.

She’s being applauded with starting that difficult discussion that many of us don’t want to talk about. That conversation called death. This episode starts off with Storyteller/ Comedian, UCLA Film and TV Writing teacher, SAG/AFTRA member, and mother Lisa Medway telling us about her difficult conversations around death and hospice. We dig deeper into the death discussion and explore the hospice world. What's it all about? Do you have an advance directive? Who's making those end of life decisions for you if you can't? Michelle Lasota RN, BSN 15 year veteran to the nursing profession and hospice expert better know as "The Nurse with the Purple Hair" will answer those difficult questions as well as take us on a journey through her hospice film, and talk about death cafes.

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