When Hospice Failed My Family

Ten minutes that felt like hell

Terry Barr
Counter Arts
Published in
8 min readAug 26, 2023

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Photo by Matthew Smith on Unsplash

“While you think about your decision, I’m going in to meet your mother and work my voodoo.”

Yes, these were words spoken by the hospice case worker assigned to help my mother find peace and comfort as she neared the end of her life.

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Terry Barr
Counter Arts

I write about music, culture, equality, and my Alabama past in The Riff, The Memoirist, Prism and Pen, Counter Arts, and am an editor for Plethora of Pop.