Music is a special gift to the ill and the dying as well as those who are grieving.

Pashta Mary Moon, co-director of Pagan Pastoral Outreach, co-founded Songs of Passage, the only bedside singing project in North America to officially work within the medical system. They use bedside singing to ease the suffering of people with HIV, dementia and other illnesses. Pashta suggests singing as a way for families to process grief and suggests, "You sing to a person even when they are comatose. It can be easier for a family to sing than to talk. Song reaches their loved one as a subconscious or spiritual level, even when the person is unable to respond." (reported in The Canadian Friend, March 2009)

So music can also help loved ones to leave this temporal world peacefully and with love.

This journal also includes a quote from Code of Silence by Springsteen.