re: Funeral Songs that get you...

My mother had an older brother who was severely crippled at birth. Barely developed and mostly skeletal, he died at 13 years of age while being held in his mother's arms in a rocking chair.

My mom was playing around on the floor as a child, and she heard something that sounded like a deep gasp. She looked up at her mother in the rocking chair, who had tears streaming down her face, and she knew that her brother was gone. The song playing on the radio at that moment was Ave Maria.

I burst into tears when she told me that. I've never heard the song the same since.