By Richard Steele and Lynette Kalsnes
CHICAGO — A special kind of choir that sings to hospice patients is gaining strength across the U.S. They’re all-female groups called threshold choirs because they perform for people on the threshold between life and death. The singers say the music doesn’t just help the patients – it helps the patients’ families, and even the choir members themselves.
Over at Chicago’s Resurrection Life Center nursing home, four women pull up chairs and sit in a half-circle near a woman lying in bed. They lean in close to the patient, Imelda Mizones, and start singing, “You are my Sunshine.” The women are part of the Rainbow Hospice Threshold Singers. The choir’s one of about 100 non-denominational choirs across the country that sings a cappella to hospice patients.
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