Earlier this year, Gloria Schwab Richardson sat in her hospital bed in Provo, Utah. She gazed out her window at nearby "Y Mountain" as her doctor explained the cancer spreading in her body, what she called with a smile, "gloom and doom."

"I had him look out the window and there was this beautiful mountain. I said, 'Look at that mountain. What do you see?' He goes, 'I don't know what you're asking.' I said, 'Exactly, it's all in the perspective.' "