Thoughts about mindfulness, mortality and how we deal with it. There may be some funeral thoughts, including practical ideas from my own experience of many funerals, but there are other 'good funeral guides.' I want to offer branch lines rather than the express route from midwife to funeral director. I want this to be about mindfulness, life and mortality, not about dying. But...
Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Don't Worry 'Bout Me (Frank Sinatra - with Lyrics)
It's a song about the end of a relationship, not a life, but it struck me as a good choice for a recent funeral, because the person who'd died was a huge fan of Sinatra (and no mean singer himself), but also because some of the words seemed to fit:
Forget about me, be happy my love,
Let's say that our little show is over,
And so the story ends
Why not call it a day the sensible way....
Bit too stoical for many people, perhaps ("Forget..." really?) but a valid way of looking things, I daresay.
And what a belting performance from the arrangement by the mighty Nelson Riddle.
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