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Last update: November 12, 2008 - 8:44 PM

Mitch Mitchell, 61, drummer for the legendary Jimi Hendrix Experience of the 1960s, was found dead in his hotel room early Wednesday in Portland, Ore. Mitchell was a powerful force on the Hendrix band's 1967 debut album "Are You Experienced?" as well as the trio's albums "Electric Ladyland" and "Axis: Bold As Love." The Englishman had been drumming for the Experience Hendrix Tour, which performed Friday in Portland. Hendrix died in 1970. Bass player Noel Redding died in 2003.

Florence Wald, 91, a former Yale University nursing school dean who brought the hospice movement to the United States and started the first American hospice unit in 1971, died Nov. 8 at her home in Branford, Conn. Her interest in end-of-life issues was sparked in 1963. Cicely Saunders, an English physician who was a pioneer in the field, gave a lecture at Yale describing her approach to treating terminally ill cancer patients by easing pain and suffering in the final stages of life so they could concentrate on their relationships and prepare for death.

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