No one wants to talk about death, but when musicians play music for people in hospice, you can’t deny how awesome that is:

Wayne Miles has not got the energy to open his eyes, but a faint smile flickers across his face as he silently mouths the words to the John Denver song Some Days Are Diamonds.

The 59-year-old Glasshouse Mountains man is dying from cancer, and amid the pain and grief music provides solace.

The former truck driver's love for country music is being nurtured by music therapist Tracie Wicks.

She sits with him at his bedside, strumming a guitar or playing the keyboard, and crooning Slim Dusty and John Denver songs that fill the dedicated music room in the Dove Palliative Care wing of the Caloundra Hospital.

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