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Transcript: Noa Emmett Aluli, M.D.

Hawaiians want to pass away at home, accompanied by and involving their family


[Aluli:]
There’s more family involved in the passing, and I’m proud to say that, you know, so the experience is somewhat different. They want to pass at home. They want to pass with a lot of music. Yeah, they want to hear the kids are running around. They actually, really, some of them really want to hear the adult kids fighting too, because that’s all part of straightening things out before they go. It seems as if in my experience that there’s less pain. Don't know why, I can’t put my hands on it, or my thoughts to it.