To Know Ends: Honest conversations about aging, illness, and dying well
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.
Podcasting since 2026 • 6 episodes
To Know Ends: Honest conversations about aging, illness, and dying well
Latest Episodes
Aging is a Privilege
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....
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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27:52
Leave It Better Than You Found
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 ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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26:07
While We Still Have Our Wits
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 Man...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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