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Aug 1, 2006

"Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work." --Mother Teresa

Singing To The Dying

After singing to a friend who laid in a coma with AIDS in 1990, Kate Munger realized that it would be her life's work. A few years passed and in August of 1997 driving back home from Montana, she committed herself to sing for any animals she encountered who have been killed on the road. Based on the inspiration of those two events, Kate Munger started the Threshold Choir -- small, volunteer-run choirs who sing to the terminally ill and dying patients. "The most touching response was when a woman mouthed the word, 'WON-DER-FUL.' That was the last time she communicated with her family," Munger said.