‘I Saw the End’: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Music, Cancer Treatment and Death

Abstract

This brief chapter explores my experiences with music and death throughout my cancer treatment. Though I constantly confronted my mortality throughout my cancer treatment, music also helped to distract me from unpleasant, lengthy or boring treatments, as well as helping me to process my feelings about my own mortality. It thus served two distinct purposes, both focusing my mind on death and pain and distancing me from it.

Citation

DiGioia, A. (2022), "‘I Saw the End’: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Music, Cancer Treatment and Death", Bennett, M.J., Shadrack, J.H. and Levy, G. (Ed.) Embodying the Music and Death Nexus (Emerald Interdisciplinary Connexions), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 61-74. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80117-766-520221005