{"id":5438,"date":"2025-07-02T15:14:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5438"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:14:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:14:53","slug":"carer-fulfills-dying-womans-last-wish-with-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5438","title":{"rendered":"Carer fulfills dying woman\u2019s last wish with song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"71\" data-end=\"103\">We all age and die eventually.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"105\" data-end=\"248\">I\u2019m not afraid of death\u2014it feels natural\u2014but I dread losing my independence: needing help with basics, forgetting loved ones. That\u2019s no life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"250\" data-end=\"384\">Maria spent her last days in a care home, knowing her time was short. A lifelong piano and singing teacher, she missed music deeply.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"386\" data-end=\"489\">Luckily, one of her former students, Joshua Woodard, now worked at the care home in Austinburg, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"491\" data-end=\"615\">Maria\u2019s final wish was to hear \u201cHow Great Thou Art.\u201d Joshua, who had known her since he was nine, happily sang it for her.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"617\" data-end=\"701\">\u201cHospice workers are angels, but this aide is special,\u201d said Marti Adkins Redmond.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"779\">Maria and Joshua\u2019s bond made her final moments peaceful and full of music.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Hospice Worker Sings To Patient\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uGFRHyt1sFQ?start=14&amp;feature=oembed\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h4 id=\"h-\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We all age and die eventually. I\u2019m not afraid of death\u2014it feels natural\u2014but I dread losing my independence: needing help with basics, forgetting loved ones. That\u2019s no life. Maria spent her last days in a care home, knowing her time was short. A lifelong piano and singing teacher, she missed music deeply. Luckily, one of&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=5438\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Carer fulfills dying woman\u2019s last wish with song&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5439,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5440,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5438\/revisions\/5440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}