The Path of Peace is a ‘music as medicine’ practice specializing in end-of-life care. Our discipline is called ‘music-thanatology.’ Music-thanatologists unite music and medicine in end-of-life [EOL] care to lovingly serve and support patients, and their loved-ones, at the end-of-life. Within the Western medical tradition, music-thanatology is considered a sub-specialty of palliative care, which seeks to improve the quality of life for those facing life-threatening illness through prevention and relief of pain—physical, emotional and spiritual.

Music-thanatology is a ‘whole body’ healing modality, as it supports the emotional, spiritual and energetic aspects of our beings, as well as the physical body. Music ‘vigils’, as we call them, are delivered live, at the patient’s bedside using Celtic harp and/or voice. Only live music ‘breathes with the patient’ and allows the music-thanatologist to customize the musical offering based on the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of the patient and family—in the present moment.

The music is profoundly soothing and deeply restorative and can often ease the pain and suffering experienced at end-of-life.

The Path of Peace music-thanatologists have been certified by The Music-Thanatology Association International [MTAI], the worldwide governing body for music-thanatologists, and adhere to the MTAI Code of Ethics.