As life ebbs, healing music flows

With patients nearing death, specially trained harpist plays to ease pain and suffering, and console loved ones

By Kathleen Burge

Globe Staff / October 26, 2008

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BURLINGTON - In Bed 7 of Lahey Clinic's medical ICU, life has nearly left Linda Harmon. Repeated blasts of chemotherapy could not beat back lung cancer, and now, in her final hours, she lies on her back, her eyes closed in a morphine haze, her hands curled at one side. (Full article: 965 words)