About Us
SacredFlight is a not-for-profit charitable organization of certified music-thanatologists. We serve people who are terminally ill or dying, providing live music prescriptively with harp and voice in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, and private residences in the greater Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington area. We are also available for educational presentations to community groups and healthcare organizations.
Institutions that provide SacredFlight music-thanatology vigils for their patients:
- Adventist Health Hospice
- Hospice Care of the Northwest
- Hospice of Washington County
- Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center
- Legacy Emanuel Medical Center
- Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center
- Legacy Hopewell House Hospice
- Legacy Meridian Park Medical Center
- Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center
- Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center
- Mary’s Woods at Marylhurst
- Odyssey Hospice
- Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU)
- Providence Hospice & Palliative Care
- Providence Willamette Falls Hospice
The mission of SacredFlight is:
To lovingly serve the physical and spiritual needs of people nearing the end of life with the prescriptive delivery of music.
To expand and develop the field of music-thanatology through community outreach and education, and the training of future music-thanatologists.
To expand cultural perceptions so that death and dying can be seen and experienced as a meaningful transition within the circle of life.
To offer an environment of beauty, peace, and reverence, which can support transformation through the reorganizing power of music.
Executive Director
Sharilyn Cohn, CM-Th
SacredFlight’s Board of Directors
- Steve Brown, :: bio
- Rev. Christine K. Dungan :: bio
- Robert Hugo Richardson, MD :: bio
- Jo Turner :: bio
- Barbara Cabot, CM-Th :: bio
- Sharilyn Cohn, CM-Th :: bio
For more information or to request a vigil, please contact
SacredFlight
PO Box 6866
Portland, OR 97228
503-241-3344
©2012 SacredFlight
PO Box 6866
Portland, OR 97228
503-241-3344