Morbidly

The humor in our office the past few days has been of the gallows variety. In other words, kind of dark but very funny. My co-worker lost her dad (weird phrase) two weeks ago, and she’s back at work now. Whenever anyone dies, though, you’ve got a lot to process, and she’s dealing with family and craziness and stages of grief . . . and humor is the only way to get through most of that shit.

So, all of this got me thinking. I already know that when my parents die (in a million years, Lord willing) there will be songs I will not be able to listen to for months or years without sobbing my eyes out.

And then I thought: what if there was such a thing as a death playlist? A mix CD for funerals, that you’d hand out so everyone would have a reminder of the deceased. I wondered what I would put on my funeral CD. Would I want tracks I loved? Or tracks from each stage of my life? A little of both?

Is there one song that you know you would you want on your death CD? Or can you do a whole playlist?