Heaven Can Wait
If you like, listen while reading: There is this one song by the Böhse Onkelz that plays at many funerals: “Nur die Besten sterben jung” — “Only the best die young.” When you are standing at a grave and cannot comprehend why someone is gone far too soon, that sentence is a bandage for the soul. Yet for the living, for the boys of tomorrow, it does not serve as a compass. For the living, we need another song by the same band: “Der Himmel kann warten” — “Heaven can wait.” ...