the funeral planning and the songs freak my husband out

Today, Edens' Fresh Horses post is a little -- well, controversial, maybe. Which, you know, is not ENTIRELY unexpected....

You should go and read it now, because I can't sum up what she said better than she said it.
So off you go. I'll wait.


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Right.

So.

Funeral songs.

Well, this is something I've thought about, not a little, or once or twice, but a LOT.

And not just my own funeral songs, either, but ones I'd pick for my husband, too.
Having buried one kid already (it's OK, he was already dead. Just sayin') it's like I'm always rehearsing for the next tragedy.
Hoping, perhaps, that way it won't take me by surprise.
As if.

Right now, the song I would pick for me is this

Just Breathe (Pearl Jam)

Yes I understand that life every must end, aw huh,.. 
As we sit alone, I know someday we must go, aw huh,.. 
I’m a lucky man to count on both hands 
The ones I love,.. 

Some folks just have one, 
Others they got none, aw huh,.. 

Stay with me,.. 
Let’s just breathe. 

Practiced are my sins, 
Never gonna let me win, aw huh,.. 
Under everything, just another human being, aw huh,.. 
Yeh, I don’t wanna hurt, there’s so much in this world 
To make me bleed. 

Stay with me,.. 
You’re all I see. 

Did I say that I need you? 
Did I say that I want you? 
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see,.. 
No one knows this more than me. 
As I come clean. 

I wonder everyday 
as I look upon your face, aw huh,.. 
Everything you gave 
And nothing you would take, aw huh,.. 
Nothing you would take,.. 
Everything you gave. 

Did I say that I need you? 
Oh, Did I say that I want you? 
Oh, if I didn’t now I’m a fool you see,.. 
No one know this more than me. 
As I come clean. 

Nothing you would take,.. 
everything you gave. 
Hold me till I die,.. 
Meet you on the other side.


That last bit -- that's the part that gets me. Hold me till I die. Meet you on the other side.


It always makes me cry, because I can't believe that our love dies when we go. I have to believe there's something after. Otherwise, what's the point?


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Fabio is not that keen on me picking funeral songs for him. It makes him nervous. Possibly because of this post about me wanting his bones.

But I picked one anyway (man up, Princess) and it would be Supermans' Song by Crash Test Dummies.

Because, he's my hero, and the world really never will see another man like him.

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I made a couple of tags about this recently and I'm making another one about my funeral song soon. Because this world totally needs more papercraft about death and dying. Doncha think?

Anyway, head to Edens' place and link up with YOUR funeral song, and tell her I sent you, just in case there's like, commission or something. I need more paper.