After weeks of scouting, my 18 year old sister found a great deal on her first car.  Great mileage.  Clean inside and out.  And she had the money for it … money that she’s earned while working a job all throughout her honors filled high school career (yes, I’m a proud brother).

Being that it was my weekend off from the funeral homes, I was my sister’s designated chauffeur to the car dealer.

The only problem: the car was three hours north of us.  In Pennsylvania, pretty much anything north of where we live is hickville.  It’s so much hickville that the only available radio stations are either country or bluegrass.

Three hours of cutting through central Pennsylvania listening to country and bluegrass isn’t that bad … for like the first hour when all the songs are new.  By the second hour it feels like they’ve played all their “hit” songs five times over … and then the trip becomes very long.

There was one random song about a funeral.  It made me think, “How many death related songs are out there?”

Being that I’m really not a music buff at all, I’m turning to you guys to help me answer my question!!!

There’s obvious songs, like “Stairway to Heaven”, “Don’t Fear the Reaper” and “I Can Only Imagine”, but there’s probably hundreds of songs from genres like rap, country, gospel, classic rock, etc. that I’ve never heard of.  There’s got to be dozens of songs from the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s that have to do with death and have never found themselves tickling my ears.

So I’m banking on you to educate me!!!  Help this funeral director fill up his iPod with songs about death : )

And if you’re like me and don’t consider yourself a music guy or gal, pass this post along to friends or family who ARE music people so that they can give me the resources from their bank of musical awesomeness.

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