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Singer in Hospice Performs Soulful 'Landslide' Cover 'One Last Time'

A week before she died from cancer, Marirose Powell did what she had done for more than twenty years - she sang Fleetwood Mac's "Landslide." But this time, she sang it from a hospice bed, gripping the railing, with friends gathered around her, turning a song she had spent a lifetime performing into something far more personal than any stage ever allowed. "Time makes you bolder, and even children get older, and I'm getting older, too," she sang - words that Stevie Nicks wrote at 27 out of exhaustion and uncertainty, now carried by a woman of 62 who knew exactly what they meant. Her daughter-in-law, who posted the video to TikTok, wrote that Powell was "truly the only person I've ever known to leave people better than she found them" - and the millions who have watched the clip seem to feel the truth of that without needing any explanation. There is something in Powell's final performance that goes beyond grief or tribute: it is the quiet, clarifying sight of a person spending her last days the way she spent her best ones, wholly herself.