Life, Death, and the in-between
Lately, due to certain circumstances, and certain reading material, etc., I have been thinking a lot about death. Not in a morbid way - but just how it surrounds us, how it makes us act in the 'face of it', how it does not wait for us to be ready....
I had the privilege of getting to hear Emily Saliers (of 'The Indigo Girls'), and her father Dr. Don Saliers, a theologian from Emory - give a performance/talk at Trinity Cathedral here in Cleveland. It was a stellar evening...
One of the questions that they asked/ideas that they brought up in conjunction with their talk is something that has been reverberating in my head ever since. This was prefaced by talking about how we pick out music for our weddings and other life 'celebrations':
What music would you have played at your funeral? I believe it was something that students were asked and I want to pose it to you out there (that is if indeed anyone even is still reading this blog).
So I have 2 questions:
1. What music would you pick as a reflection of your life for your funeral?
and,
2. If you could, would you come back as a ghost and if so, who would you haunt? (So OK I guess technically that is 3 questions but go for it).
I had the privilege of getting to hear Emily Saliers (of 'The Indigo Girls'), and her father Dr. Don Saliers, a theologian from Emory - give a performance/talk at Trinity Cathedral here in Cleveland. It was a stellar evening...
One of the questions that they asked/ideas that they brought up in conjunction with their talk is something that has been reverberating in my head ever since. This was prefaced by talking about how we pick out music for our weddings and other life 'celebrations':
What music would you have played at your funeral? I believe it was something that students were asked and I want to pose it to you out there (that is if indeed anyone even is still reading this blog).
So I have 2 questions:
1. What music would you pick as a reflection of your life for your funeral?
and,
2. If you could, would you come back as a ghost and if so, who would you haunt? (So OK I guess technically that is 3 questions but go for it).
Labels: Death, Life, The Meaning of Life
posted by Colette at 12:31 AM
1 Comments:
I think I would pick songs by my favorite artists, the ones that I loved the most, as that would best reflect who I was as a person.
I firmly believe in what Maryanne says that we hang around till after our funerals, I would want to make sure everyone I knew and loved was going to be ok. Only then could I truly move on.
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