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What does it mean to live well — all the way to the end? To Know Ends is a podcast about the conversations we avoid, the care we don't understand, and the people who show up anyway. Each episode features voices from inside and outside the world of hospice and palliative care — nurses, social workers, caregivers, artists, and people who have sat beside someone they loved as they died — speaking honestly about what aging, decline, and dying actually look like, and what becomes possible when we stop running from those realities.
The title means two things at once. To know ends is to understand what a closing looks like. It is also to know no ends — to discover that confronting mortality honestly doesn't shrink a life. It expands it.
The title means two things at once. To know ends is to understand what a closing looks like. It is also to know no ends — to discover that confronting mortality honestly doesn't shrink a life. It expands it.
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Update frequency:
biweekly
Average audio length:
25 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
6 episodes
since June 16, 2026
episodic
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For the finale of this season, we flipped the show. Instead of the experts, an open call: millennials and Gen-Z, anywhere, answering questions about aging, caregiving, and grief — no names, just a voice memo, an age, and a place they call home.
Five strangers answered. A 36-year-old confronting the…
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Emily Jacobs went to nursing school because of the months she spent caring for her boyfriend after a routine surgery went wrong. She was twenty-four, had a degree in journalism, and had never done anything like it. What stayed with her was not the wound care. It was standing in a hospital room with…
Perry Platt was an EMT, then an ICU nurse, then a travel nurse, and none of it fit. She kept moving until she found the one place her puzzle piece finally clicked into place: hospice.
Perry is a Hospice Inpatient Center Clinical Manager and nurse at Hospice of the Chesapeake, and she is thirty yea…
Some people spend their whole lives holding everyone else together. Jennifer Ward's work begins the moment they finally set that weight down.
A licensed social worker and bereavement counselor, Jennifer came to this work through the loss of her grandmother, the matriarch of a family of fifteen…
Alena Dailey spent 15 years working in senior living, watching hospice teams care for residents and their families from the outside. She understood the landscape. She knew the language. She thought she was ready.
Then, at 29, she became her grandmother's primary evening caregiver. And everythi…
Before Victoria Ivicek ever answered the phone for a grieving family, she was one of them.
When her father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's, Victoria watched his decline unfold faster than anyone expected. Hospice of the Chesapeake came into their home during those final six months — and what s…
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