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FRESNO – Hinds Hospice is partnering with StoryCorps Legacy, a program that provides people with life-threatening conditions and their families the opportunity to record, preserve, and share their stories. StoryCorps, the national nonprofit oral history project, partners with a variety of organizations, including disease-specific institutions, palliative care departments, and hospices to assist them in incorporating the reminiscence interview experience into their existing services.
StoryCorps Legacy staff train and prepare partners to conduct and record interviews using equipment provided by StoryCorps. Participants will receive a copy of their interview to share with friends and family. A second copy will be archived at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. “Looking a loved one in the eyes and asking about his or her life is one of the greatest gifts we can give one another,” StoryCorps founder and president Dave Isay said in a news release. “The simple act of listening tells them how much they matter, and documenting that conversation for posterity tells them that they won’t be forgotten.”
“We all want to feel that our life had meaning and the world is better because we lived in it,” Nancy Hinds, RN, founder and CEO of Hinds Hospice, said in the release “I feel this is true no matter what a person’s age. I believe that every moment we live has purpose. The legacy that StoryCorps offers is that it allows the most common or incredible stories to be told and to have permanence.”
