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Amy Shea

Amy Shea

PhD essayist, author of "Too Poor to Die," and Writing Program Director at Mount Tamalpais College, focusing on poverty and end-of-life care.

Jun 18, 2026

2:19
you know, yeah, how I got into this, I always tell people it's a long convoluted
2:22
story.
2:24
There was no direct route to it.
2:28
But I talked about it in the introduction a bit.
2:31
Part of it, it was a confluence of three different things.
2:34
And one was my dad's work that he was doing in his retirement.
2:38
when he started helping the genealogy society in our hometown track all of the cemeteries in this county.

6 MINS LATER

8:31
I mean, so why do you think it's important for people to understand more about this subject? Or is that even the right question to kind of dive in? Like, how do we dive into what you learned?

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