This program is offered to current SOUNDPRINT MEMBER stations as a free alternative to our weekly (full 59 minute) Soundprint feed. If you are interested in broadcasting this Newshole-Friendly version of Soundprint, but are not a Soundprint Member Station, please contact us (BEFORE DOWNLOADING) about a trial period or other options at  (301)317-0110 . Thanks for reading carefully!!

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Hospice Chronicles 
It's been forty years since St. Christopher's Hospice – the first modern hospice – opened in a suburb of London. Since then, millions of people around the world have chosen hospice at the end of their lives, with many patients choosing to receive care in their homes. Over the course of eight months, team Long Haul followed two hospice volunteers through their training and first assignments in patients' homes. Trained to provide "respite care," the volunteers set out to give family members a break from their caretaking responsibilities. And while one has a chance to reflect on her patient's life in a intimate setting, another gets to explore death in a rather unexpected way – a way that training never could have prepared him for.

Death Comes Home 
An intimate emotional portrait of three families who have chosen to fore-go the funeral director and proscribed memorial, and instead care for their dead in their own homes. This is not a story about hospice or green burial; producer April Dembosky introduces us to people taking matters into their own hands: washing and dressing the bodies of their loved ones, building coffins, digging graves, and keeping their loved ones closer to home.

This program is offered to current SOUNDPRINT MEMBER stations as a free alternative to our weekly (full 59 minute) Soundprint feed. If you are interested in broadcasting this Newshole-Friendly version of Soundprint, but are not a Soundprint Member Station, please contact us (BEFORE DOWNLOADING) about a trial period or other options at  (301)317-0110 . Thanks for reading carefully!!

**** PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS ****

Hospice Chronicles 
It's been forty years since St. Christopher's Hospice – the first modern hospice – opened in a suburb of London. Since then, millions of people around the world have chosen hospice at the end of their lives, with many patients choosing to receive care in their homes. Over the course of eight months, team Long Haul followed two hospice volunteers through their training and first assignments in patients' homes. Trained to provide "respite care," the volunteers set out to give family members a break from their caretaking responsibilities. And while one has a chance to reflect on her patient's life in a intimate setting, another gets to explore death in a rather unexpected way – a way that training never could have prepared him for.

Death Comes Home 
An intimate emotional portrait of three families who have chosen to fore-go the funeral director and proscribed memorial, and instead care for their dead in their own homes. This is not a story about hospice or green burial; producer April Dembosky introduces us to people taking matters into their own hands: washing and dressing the bodies of their loved ones, building coffins, digging graves, and keeping their loved ones closer to home.