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Buddy Marterre

Surgical Palliative Care, Departments of General Surgery and Internal Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA. Electronic address: b.marterre@wakehealth.edu.

1 paper in the library · publishing 2019

Papers

Bruno's Score.

Journal of pain and symptom management September 1, 2019 Buddy Marterre

A composer and cognitive musicologist named Bruno, who integrated Taoism, Tibetan Buddhism, Zen, Christian mysticism, mathematics, and music into his life, experienced an exceptionally graceful dying process and death. His spirituality interconnected diverse faith traditions and philosophies, and his art forms of light and music moved and challenged many people. The author presents his story to encourage other healers in hospice and palliative care, noting that while some aspects of Bruno's transformation from being to nonbeing were obvious, others were inscrutable.