When someone is dying, threshold choir provides the comfort of song - The Washington Post

The Threshold singers visit those who are dying to share music.  It brings comfort to the dying and their families and to the singers as well.

"When her parents were dying in the 1980s, [Leslie] Kostrich says, no one acknowledged they were close to death, which didn’t allow her and her family to come to terms with the losses themselves. The Threshold Choir has both helped her in a small way alleviate her own loss and help others avoid that kind of pain, she says....One of the singers, Lily Chang, 28, notes that the choir is helping her confront her own fears of loss.


Chang says she’s very close to her grandmother and, given her age, worries about her. “I remember telling my mom, ‘I don’t know what I would do’ ” if she died. “Thinking about it, engaging with it in different ways makes me feel better.”



When someone is dying, threshold choir provides the comfort of song - The Washington Post