LIFE MATTERS MEDIA STAFF

UNITED KINGDOM – A hospice nurse performed Adele’s rendition of “Make You Feel My Love” for dying patients this week, sparking warm headlines across the world.

St. Helena Hospice nurse Emma Young sang the ballad – written by Bob Dylan – as she played piano in the center’s inpatient unit on Friday. The performance went viral after the hospice posted a video of it to their Facebook page. It has already been viewed 31,000 times.

Young brought a smile to everyone’s faces as she “revealed her hidden talent,” the hospice said.

Sarah Green, the hospice’s director of income and communications, told The Huffington Post the video’s reception is “just amazing.”

“Hospice care is not just about medical care and physical symptoms,” she said. “It really is about caring for the ‘whole’ person and making people’s days brighter, whether through a spontaneous song at our piano or providing a listening ear.”

Hospice aims to provide comfort care and pain management rather than aggressive treatments – usually for terminally ill patients with six months or less to live. Hospice is most often used when curative treatments are no longer effective.