Music and coping with bereavement

Coping with bereavement
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When mu wife went to heaven, music used to get to me and make me breakdown .for example honey by bobby golsboro, when it was released my wife was carrying our 2nd son Damian. So it became spe ial to me and i used to sing it all the time. My 2nd son took his own life age 27 and the song is even more precious. To me
I will have it played at my funeral, as i will tell me theres a heaven by chris rea. ( i had it played at my oldest sister’s cremation 5 years ago) i sing in choirs and have done for 20 years and musuc , has becime part of my life i know that at first loss of a loved one nusuc can upset and hurt people to much.
Now i am grateful for music. . In 2009 i was lucky enough for our male voice choir tobsing at the royal Albert Hall, it was to raise money for cancer research u.k.

We were part of a,1500 strong mixed choir, and everything was,magical and we couldn’t believe what we were doing. The concert raised £ 150. 000 over the weekend, but without music in my life my dream wouldn’t have come true.
I love to sing Jim Reeves song he.ll have to go and welcome to my world in my deep base voice of which I’m proud mr chipps 1

Thanks for reading my book, lol mr chipps 1

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Hi @Mr-chipps ,

Thank you so much for sharing this with the community :blue_heart: Music can be so important to many.

Take good care,
Alex

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Music can sometimes be a panacea to help in many situations especially grier or personal trauma.
We can look back and rhink to ourselves, that a certain piece of musuc was very popular when a death or trauma occurred. Or it can bring back happy memories. I recall that when i got married to my perfect pixie( christine) whiter shade of pale was the Poplar sing.
Then when our 2nd son was born it was Honey by Bobby golsboro. ( DESCRIBED as the most sentimental sing of all time).
Through my life i have had many favourite songs, . But there have been some that came at the wrong time, su h as when my perfect pixie died. . There was a sing about it getting better,to me how could things e er get better, the li e of my life had gone to heaven , leaving ing me behind and alone