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A sequence of videos to inspire and encourage a
positive approach to living and mortality.
A living memorial service is for . . . the living. I would like to have a memorial service while I am still alive and can enjoy and share this music.
Making these selections public is my way of seeing if such a service would appeal to others, too. Alternatively, one can listen to the following selections as a life meditation when one needs some quiet moments to ground oneself through music and words.
One can experience the music assembled here from several perspectives. First, it is a direction for an individual's own reflection: a life review, a current life-status assessment, and a commitment to a positive future -- in preparation for the transition from this life and in the context that the days ahead may be fewer than the days behind. One does not have to be sick or on the verge of transition for this experience.
Second, it is a means of being supportive, encouraging, and just joyfully present with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, and of helping put the individual's transition into a positive perspective.
Third, it presents a chance for people to come together and wish the individual well in the present, supporting the individual in the final phases of life.
Finally, it can act as a dialog in song with the Great Spirit of All (or the good spirit of the universe, if that view is more congruent), as well as, the community of spirits and souls that walks with us now and will welcome us at our transition.
This is my first collection of contemporary songs for this purpose. I hope it will be meaningful to all listeners. It clearly supposes a spiritual perspective, but where some specific perspective does not mesh with one’s own, one can mentally translate where needed to reframe the message according to one's own belief.
A sequence of videos to inspire and encourage a
positive approach to living and mortality.
A sequence of videos to inspire and encourage a
positive approach to living and mortality.
A living memorial service is for . . . the living. I would like to have a memorial service while I am still alive and can enjoy and share this music.
Making these selections public is my way of seeing if such a service would appeal to others, too. Alternatively, one can listen to the following selections as a life meditation when one needs some quiet moments to ground oneself through music and words.
One can experience the music assembled here from several perspectives. First, it is a direction for an individual's own reflection: a life review, a current life-status assessment, and a commitment to a positive future -- in preparation for the transition from this life and in the context that the days ahead may be fewer than the days behind. One does not have to be sick or on the verge of transition for this experience.
Second, it is a means of being supportive, encouraging, and just joyfully present with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, and of helping put the individual's transition into a positive perspective.
Third, it presents a chance for people to come together and wish the individual well in the present, supporting the individual in the final phases of life.
Finally, it can act as a dialog in song with the Great Spirit of All (or the good spirit of the universe, if that view is more congruent), as well as, the community of spirits and souls that walks with us now and will welcome us at our transition.
This is my first collection of classical songs for this purpose. I hope it will be meaningful to all listeners. It clearly supposes a spiritual perspective, but where some specific perspective does not mesh with one’s own, one can mentally translate where needed to reframe the message according to one's own perspective.
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