Jun 18, 2026 · 35 min · 11 segments
What does it mean to be “too poor to die”? Author and researcher Amy Shea took a deep dive into how poverty affects the end of life. What happens when you die with no money and no family to collect…
Amy SheaGuest
Diane HullettHost
So this was really a years long investigation that sparked on and then in the graduate program, turned it into a book and then kept refining it and creating a book.
And the places I visit and the people who are working so hard, whether that's at the end of life, you know, in hospice or a medical respite or whatever, where there's care happening.
I think, yeah, sometimes places and counties and places are, you know, like cities and whatnot are falling down a little bit on the kind of dignity they're affording someone.
who's being buried in the public, you know, through the public disposition program.
But you also see the community members stepping up and doing what they can to offer some kind of dignity.
So this was really a years long investigation that sparked on and then in the graduate program, turned it into a book and then kept refining it and creating a book.
And the places I visit and the people who are working so hard, whether that's at the end of life, you know, in hospice or a medical respite or whatever, where there's care happening.
I think, yeah, sometimes places and counties and places are, you know, like cities and whatnot are falling down a little bit on the kind of dignity they're affording someone.
who's being buried in the public, you know, through the public disposition program.
But you also see the community members stepping up and doing what they can to offer some kind of dignity.
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