Play U2 at my funeral

I hope to live a very long life, but I don’t mind thinking — sometimes — about the end of my journey too. Where will I be buried? What music will be played at my funeral? How do I want people to describe my life and my character?

I just finished reading Bono’s memoir.

For me it wasn’t just a memoir by a famous musician. It felt super intimate, for U2 is one of my life's biggest loves (I know, the plural of “love” sounds awkward but I’m using it anyway).

I’m an improbable fan of U2. When the band’s famous The Joshua Tree came out I was just seven, unaware of the band’s existence. Growing up in Soviet Moscow, I wasn’t as ignorant about Western pop music, as one might think. My Dad’s love of music could never let the Iron Curtain hide the vibrant colors of Western pop culture. I was familiar with Queen, Pink Floyd, Dire Straits, and the Rolling Stones. U2 though? Not at all, even though they were already super famous in the 80s.

I discovered U2 in 1993:

This song from 1993 blew my mind and it’s the cradle of my creativity

And then I fell in love with U2, madly. For my fourteenth birthday, my parents gifted me U2’s…