Craig Sinclair Died at Home After $65,000 Hospice Push for Bladder Cancer Care
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Updated · The Guardian · Jun 1
Craig Sinclair Died at Home After $65,000 Hospice Push for Bladder Cancer Care
1 articles · Updated · The Guardian · Jun 1
Summary
Nearly three months of home hospice let Craig Sinclair die in his Brooklyn apartment on March 10, 2025, after terminal bladder cancer, fulfilling his wish to avoid dying in a shared Manhattan hospital room.
More than $65,000—money his wife Shannon Carroll said they did not have—was raised from friends and family to cover private nursing and supplies, because standard home hospice offered only one nurse visit a week.
Craig needed complex daily wound care after 2 1/2 years of surgeries, radiation, chemotherapy and immunotherapy; a palliative team had warned in December 2024 he had "days, if not hours."
The financial strain was compounded after Craig lost his job in late 2023, Carroll cut back work to care for him, and New York Medicaid rules barred spouses from being paid as caregivers.
His story underscores how end-of-life care in the U.S. can depend on fundraising and private payments; New York's medical aid-in-dying law, passed after his death, takes effect on Aug. 5, 2026.