Death, by Music

💡 What can you expect from this session?

Death, by Music invites participants into an intimate, reflective journey through sound. Using mindfulness, guided imagery, and songs exploring themes of death and dying, this workshop creates a safe space for sharing memories, emotions, and perspectives.

Discover how music can open conversations about loss, honour life, and deepen our understanding of what it means to both live well and leave well.

🟢 Who should join?

This session is open to all.

✨ Meet the facilitators

Dr Andy H. Y. Ho is an award-winning psychologist and educator passionate about helping people navigate life’s final chapters with compassion. A past president of ADEC and Director of Research at PalC, he has developed award-winning programmes that blend science, art, and community care, inspiring conversations about mortality, resilience, and living meaningfully.

Project Gift of Song is a ground-up movement whose mission is to celebrate life and embrace mortality with the comfort of music. To date, we have rallied together 80 volunteers from all walks of life with a shared interest in music.

We serve the palliative care community via two core services:

1. Celebrating Life: To empower the terminally ill to celebrate a life well-lived and leave a legacy for their loved ones, by co-creating a “Musical Gift” which honours their life through a musical song.
2. Embracing Mortality: To harness music to facilitate community discourse on end-of-life matters beyond whatever words can express, through our [Death, by Music] experience.

Since our inception, we have worked closely with major palliative care providers, charities, and agencies to bring our services to individuals with terminal illnesses. We are a recognized community partner of organizations including the Singapore Hospice Council, Dover Park Hospice, and Ambulance Wish Singapore. Our work has also been featured in the Singapore Palliative Care Conference and Project Happy Apples’ public roadshow, amongst other public platforms.

This activity is organised as part of Singapore Hospice Council's Live Well. Leave Well. Festival 2025. Click here to see more programme highlights.

About Singapore Hospice Council

Singapore Hospice Council (SHC) is a registered charity and an umbrella body representing organisations that actively provide hospice and palliative care in Singapore.

SHC is committed to improving the lives of patients with serious illnesses and giving support to the loved ones of these patients. It aims to coordinate and promote hospice and palliative care in Singapore; to support the training of doctors, nurses, allied-health workers, caregivers, and volunteers; to improve on the quality of palliative care; and to raise public awareness. It acts as the voice of hospice and palliative care within Singapore and internationally.

For enquiries, email us at info@singaporehospice.org.sg