"The qualifications for living at Malachi House are simple: residents must be poor, homeless and dying. Given the criteria, you might expect unpleasant surroundings where abandoned people die without touch or tenderness. Nothing could be farther from the truth."

Charlotte Michael Versagi profiles the Malachi House in Cleveland, Ohio and the massage therapist, John Mramor, who provides massage for the dying residents in the article "Final Touch." The article describes several of the residents and their response to Mramor and massage. A resident, 84-year-old Virginia says, "Massage does wonders...John massages my shoulders and my feet, and I think, "Oh, it can't get any better than this'...It relaxes me...It helps me go to sleep." Versagi describes how Malachi House was founded, and how it has remained a non-profit organization simply run without ties to bureaucracies. Versagi writes of the process through which Mramor came to work for Malachi House, and how he and his wife Karla, the Malachi House music director, have funded their work through grants. Versagi includes a sidebar that explains a combined study on music and massage being conducted by Mramor and his wife.