The Last Song

Autori

  • Yumiko Sato Music Therapy Services

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v9i3.51

Abstract

Through my work as a hospice music therapist I’ve come to believe that people who are dying have an inner awareness of their own impending deaths.  When I was a music therapy intern, I met a patient who was the first to reveal to me this inner awareness of death’s approach.  This is a story of Herb, a former singer, whose life was filled with music. As his Alzheimer’s disease got worse, the only thing that comforted him was music.  By singing his last song one day he taught me the mystery of dying.

Biografia autore

Yumiko Sato, Music Therapy Services

Yumiko Sato, MA, MT-BC, is a staff music therapist at Music Therapy Services in Cincinnati, Ohio.  Yumi is originally from Tokyo and received her education from Davis & Elkins College and Radford University.  She currently works with terminally ill patients at Hospice of Cincinnati.

Pubblicato

2010-09-15

Come citare

Sato, Y. (2010). The Last Song. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 9(3). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v9i3.51

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Stories