The Sandwich Generation Pod
The Sandwich Generation Pod
Eliesa Johnson and Robyn Frank
Episode 10: Can we choose how we Die? A Family's Story About Alzheimer's, VSED and Love with Sarah Longacre and Wendy Longacre Brown
1 hour 18 minutes Posted Jul 30, 2026 at 10:00 am.
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Talking about death is uncomfortable. Talking about how we want to die? That's a conversation most of us avoid altogether. In this episode of The Sandwich Generation Pod, Eliesa and Robyn sit down with Sarah Longacre and Wendy Brown to share the extraordinary story of Cheryl Hauser, a wife, mother, and advocate whose Alzheimer's diagnosis led her to make a deeply personal end-of-life decision through Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED). Cheryl spent her final years documenting her...