Presence is Medicine: Every Passage We Face with Margaret Pasquesi

When someone you love is dying, nobody hands you a map. You are guessing about the medication. You are guessing about the restlessness. You are quietly terrified you are doing this wrong. In this episode of Butterfly Days, Tami Jorden sits down with Margaret Pasquesi, a certified music-thanatologist, vocalist, and harpist who serves as president of the Music-Thanatology Association International.  Margaret brings live harp and voice to the bedside of the dying, not as a performance, but as a prescription tuned to a patient's breath, pulse, and temperature. She explains what actually happens in the final days, why so many loving families withhold the very medication that would bring their Person comfort, and how to know when the dying has started so the right people can be in the room.  Margaret also shares how a punk rock kid, child number seven of ten, followed a strange calling into one of the most unusual vocations in end of life care. Sister, if you are caring for a parent, sitting with a friend, or standing at your own empty nest wondering what comes next, this conversation is for you. 🦋 Connect with Margaret Pasquesi: Website: https://www.margaretpasquesi.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretpasquesi/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MargaretPasquesi/ Music-Thanatology Association International: https://www.mtai.org/ Accorda Music-Thanatology Institute: https://accordaschool.org/ Tony Pederson Music Thanatologist  FootLeg22 Tiktok🦋 🦋 Subscribe to Tami Jorden's Substack, visit her website, and follow her on LinkedIn, Facebook, YouTube & Instagram 🦋