The point to remember is that while Glenn Miller and the Beatles are both wonderful, they're not interchangeable emotionally and therapeutically across generations. Sometimes the greatest healing occurs when there is the least hope. Lane works with adult and pediatric cancer and AIDS patients, many of whom are terminal. It is here that music can often work to promote extraordinary emotional and spiritual healing for patients and their families. The expression becomes a purifying experience.
Music can also be a way of communicating with family when words alone become too difficult.
Lane remembers a prestigious lawyer who was dying of cancer. He couldn't bear the sight of his young children gathering around his bedside, weeping. So he sent them home. Disconsolate and confused, the children asked what they could do. The father was delighted by the tape.