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♫ Singing this song blesses me. ♫
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- [Voiceover] Death being like a song, takes place
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over time.
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There's a beginning to it, there's a culmination,
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and then there's an ending.
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I think it has the possibility of enhancing our lives
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rather than taking something away from them.
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My name is Kate Munger, I'm the founder of
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The Threshold Choir.
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We sing at the bedsides of people who are dying.
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(singing in harmony)
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I started the first choir in March of 2000.
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Six months later, two more choirs, and today
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there are 150 choirs around the world.
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♫ May you be at peace. ♫
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In 1990, I spent an afternoon taking care of
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a friend of mine who was dying of HIV/AIDS.
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He was comatose and agitated, and I didn't know
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what to do.
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So I started instinctively singing to him.
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He started to calm and I started to calm.
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I knew I'd discovered something ancient,
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and that I wanted to bring back.
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The songs that we bring to bedsides are mostly songs
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that we've written.
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They're short, they're sung very, very softly,
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and the lyrics offer comfort, they offer serenity,
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they offer simplicity and ease.
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We will knock on the door and try to slip into the room
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where the person is dying, as gently as a butterfly.
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We've come to sing for you.
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♫ May you be free from suffering. ♫
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We often see a calming of the breath, sometimes
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we'll see a toe tapping or a finger moving,
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a smile, and then when we're done, slip out just as quietly.
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Often we'll leave singing.
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♫ You are not alone, I am here now. ♫
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Many of the people we've sung for say that
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their pain is gone, their pain is lessened,
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that is a miracle to me.
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(gentle piano music)