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1. We talk a lot about what songs we want played at our funeral, but not as much thought goes into what are the songs or sounds hearing people might want to listen to at the end of life.
art by Andy Holden
art by Andy Holden
2. In numerous countries around the world there are Threshold Choirsâchoral groups who sing for the dying. Singing and music at the threshold of life and death has been an important part of many cultures for centuries. https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-someone-hovers-at-the-edge-of-death-these-singers-step-in-to-ease-the-passage/2018/05/04/66987f48-3768-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html
3. Another person thinking about sound at the end of life is musician and âsound alchemistâ Yoko Sen. During a hospital stay Sen began to think about the unsettling sounds she heard, which evoked feelings of chaos and dissonance.
4. She came to understand the profound impact that sound can have on the health and well being of patients, leading her to reimagine the experience of sound in hospitals & ask hearing people, what is the last sound you want to hear before you die? http://www.sensound.space/my-last-sound
