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Informative Speech Outline
with Presentation Aids
Music-Thanatology (for use with Chapters 10, 13, and 15)
By Abby Rine
Abby was assigned to do an informative speech with visual aids.
Specific Purpose: To inform my audience about comforting music that is
played to terminally ill patients as they die.
Thesis Statement: Music-thanatology, playing comforting music to dying
patients, differs from music therapy; it is an ancient practice
that is being revived today.
Introduction
[A recording of harp music plays softly throughout the introduction.]
i. during Salvatore Villalobos’s final battle with throat cancer, he became increasingly anxious
until he was offered comfort music through his hospice (Trujillo, 2011).
A. Judith Shotwell, a harpist and music-thanatologist, soothed his final days with music.
B. in order to keep dying patients comfortable and give them peace, many hospitals and
hospices now provide a similar service.
- According to Music-Thanatology Association international (MTAi, 2011),
music-thanatology is the prescriptive use of music—harp and voice—to help
aid mental, physical, and spiritual symptoms of the dying. - The word comes from the Greek word thanatos, which means “death.”
- The music is live so the musician can tune in to the patient’s and family’s
specific needs.
ii. death is inevitable, but no one wants pain and suffering.
iii. i first heard about music-thanatology as a news item; my curiosity was piqued, and
i wanted to know more about the technique.
iV. i will explain the difference between music-thanatology and music therapy; then
i’ll give a brief history of the practice and show how it is currently being revived.
Body
i. Music-thanatology (MTAi, 2011) differs from music therapy according to the American
Music Therapy Association website (2011).
[A PowerPoint list has two columns comparing therapy to thanatology.]
A. Music therapy is designed to be life-supporting, but music-thanatology aims to help
people “unbind” and move toward the completion of life.
B. Music therapists engage people actively, often using words; music-thanatologists
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