Name: Songs of Comfort at the End of Life
Uploaded: 2020-01-27T11:12:15.000Z
Duration: 2 min 49 s
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- [Voiceover] Death being like a song, takes place

There's a beginning to it, there's a culmination,

I think it has the possibility of enhancing our lives

rather than taking something away from them.

My name is Kate Munger, I'm the founder of

We sing at the bedsides of people who are dying.

I started the first choir in March of 2000.

Six months later, two more choirs, and today

In 1990, I spent an afternoon taking care of

a friend of mine who was dying of HIV/AIDS.

He was comatose and agitated, and I didn't know

So I started instinctively singing to him.

He started to calm and I started to calm.

The songs that we bring to bedsides are mostly songs

They're short, they're sung very, very softly,

and the lyrics offer comfort, they offer serenity,

We will knock on the door and try to slip into the room

where the person is dying, as gently as a butterfly.

We often see a calming of the breath, sometimes

we'll see a toe tapping or a finger moving,

a smile, and then when we're done, slip out just as quietly.

♫ You are not alone, I am here now. ♫

Many of the people we've sung for say that

their pain is gone, their pain is lessened,

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Songs of Comfort at the End of Life

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