Listen to this when
Kettering
When you're the one holding it together at the bedside 🏥
Who it's for
Hospice is a concept album set in a cancer hospital, told by a hospice worker caring for a terminally ill patient, and Kettering is where he arrives at her bedside.
Trapped, powerless, heavy→Understood, able to name the weight
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Kettering" is the second track on The Antlers' 2009 concept album Hospice, which follows a hospice worker and a patient with terminal bone cancer through her decline. The song is named after Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, where the album is set, and its alternate title in the liner notes is "Bedside Manner." Sharon Van Etten sings on the track.
Where to find it
All major streaming services.
Before you start
Heads up: Terminal illness.
Age: Suggested 13+
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?George Eliot, Middlemarch, Chapter LXXII
