Music thanatology is a new branch of music therapy that helps people cope with death and dying. Music therapists use music to relieve depression, anxiety, and pain and help improve the over all quality of life in dying patients. Sound and music's use for death and dying, however, is anything but new. There are records of the Vedic culture dating back at least 5,000 years using sounds for this purpose. Classical music made plants grow faster where as rock and roll took its toll.
Classical music is as good for humans as it is for plants.
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