Let Me Ask You This - Conversations From The NEK

After providing support for people in medical settings and their own homes for many years, Bill Kilgour turned his own home into a hospice house. In this episode of “Let Me Ask You This” Bill tells us how his personal and professional journeys led him to care for hospice patients, and also patients using medical aid in dying, in the comfort of his old farmhouse in Concord, VT.

We’re taking a short break from our series of interviews with people involved in end of life care and looking at a summer ritual - family reunions. In this episode of “Let Me Ask You This” I’m talking with members of my extended family about what keeps them returning to the NEK for one special weekend every summer for more than 40 years.

What do you learn about living when you take care of people who are dying? Find out from Hospice Medical Director, Dr. Mary Ready on this episode of “Let Me Ask You This.” During her medical career, Mary provided care for patients in the hospital and clinics. She also delivered babies. And she helped start a palliative care program. For the last decade she has helped people exit this world gently, and she’s learned a lot about living along the way. Listen to Mary talk about her life-affirming work caring for the dying.

Ann Hockridge has spent more than two decades providing spiritual support for hospice patients. In our conversation on this episode of “Let Me Ask You This,” Ann tells us what it’s like to be there for people at the end of their lives, in that very sacred, intimate time. Listen to Ann talk about the part of end-of-life care that doesn’t involve medicine but does offer healing.