The purpose in creating the audio resource, Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying, co-created with film composer Gary Malkin, was to help reduce anxiety around the dying process, for both the dying, family members and care providers. As such, it has served as a spiritual and musical resource for many people, including hospice volunteers across America, for over ten years.
As I enter into filmmaking, the initial motivation behind Graceful Passages continues into another dimension. Shining Night, a film about one man's connection to music and how it touches people around the world, is a resource for helping remind the viewer of their inherent connection to the 'Great Song' behind personality and appearances.
This song we may hear more clearly as we are dying- thus to hear it while living helps reduce our apprehension of what we refer to as the 'end', whenever and however that may come. This song has been singing before we came into this world, and will be singing after we leave. To allow and actively participate in artistic expression, in any form, is a primal way of feeling our connection to life and reducing- if not evaporating- our fear of death.
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HCF Members can read more about Graceful Passages: A Companion for Living and Dying or purchase the CD by clicking on the link.