What motivates a polemic like Felicia Ackerman's “Goldilocks and Mrs. Ilyich: A Critical Look at the ‘Philosophy of Hospice’”? Ackerman announces that in addition to analyzing and criticizing hospice principles as embodied in the National Hospice Organization's “Philosophy of Hospice,” her article will also present “some discussion of hospices in actual practice …” She presents, in fact, two examples of hospice practice: one is a dubious anecdote, the meaning of which she apparently misunderstands, and the second is a description of a twenty-year-old policy of St. Christopher's Hospice in England, which, I believe, is no longer strictly adhered to.