My friend called me last weekend crying. She had just received news that a former short-term boyfriend/dating experience (she's not sure what it was, either) had passed away, suddenly, at 49, from cancer. It had only been a three month relationship, but he was someone she had known many years before. [The weird thing is that a similar scenario happened to another friend of mine a few years ago, and both remind me of the Sex and the City (of course) episode (LOVE THAT SHOW!) when Miranda's date stands up her up because he gets hit by a bus (or something like that), and she tells Miranda, Samantha, and Carrie, "They're dying on us!" It brings new meaning to the expression "all the good ones have been taken!"]

Holding the title of His Last Girlfriend, my friend was asked to sing a song at the memorial service and she has been struggling with what song to sing. Since they weren't together that long she never got around to the What Song Do You Want Played At Your Memorial? Conversation (I assume that comes after the Commitment Conversation...but whose to say?)

Not something I ever thought about before, but, really, more important than an updated will, how about an updated memorial song list?! It's one thing to be misunderstood in my life, but to play a song I never cared for at my memorial...that's messed up. What if the powers that be play "Let It Be" and then everyone thinks I was a big Beatles fan, when I could really take them or leave them?

I'm still thinking about it (this is what happens when you're unemployed), but the following came to mind:

The Wind - Cat Stevens
If I Ever Leave This World Alive - Flogging Molly
The Body Electric - Fame (Really, I'm dead...so what do I care what people think of me?!)
Galileo - The Indigo Girls

Just for today, I can be morbid.