Whitney's casket carried out to her singing of I Will Always Love You.....

[northoftheborder]

Tears............

[BootinUp]

1. I don't think I want to watch it.

too sad.

[pipi_k]

2. I was out earlier but

saw the last 2 hours of it.

Playing that song as her casket was carried out...absolutely heartbreaking.

It's impossible to see another family's loss without feeling the pain of our own losses as well...

yes...I sat and cried

[elfin]

3. I Wept

Just returned to see the last half hour. Taped most of the service and will watch later. She made a harsh world beautiful with her gift and yet succumbing to the worldly stresses marked the end of her life.

What might have been, what might have been.

[rsmith6621]

4. The Entertainment Industry Has To Start Addressing This Issue

......$$$ = Accessibility to drugs. Dr Drew has said they dont use the drugs to escape lifes problems they use it to get to sleep because their lives are in such a MANIC all the time.

[Whisp]

6. that and how hateful and ugly people can be.

I think that is mainly what turns famous people to find comfort in escape and do drugs. The hate and the absolute knuckle dragging ugly is so thick out there, we know that. We see it all over and it's become the norm.

I feel really bad for young talented kids that rocket up to stardom - most will not come out from it well.

[justiceischeap]

14. Well, often they are kept drugged up by some of the more

unscrupulous types in the business. Makes them more pliable. So, that issue needs to be addressed if they are going to tackle the problem. Rev. Al said that professional sports have safety nets and morality conduct kind of stuff and feels this type of thing should be put in place in the entertainment industry.

[Whisp]

5. omg

I used to absolutely HATE that song.

what was I thinking? maybe it was the Movie I hated, or something.

but I have a totally different view now, that is an amazing song with a once in a lifetime voice.
I am humbled and teary here.

[Cooley Hurd]

7. Me too!

[Surya Gayatri]

8. Me too, Whisp...

And I used to think the same thing about "I will always love you"...
Maybe it was the over-exposure?
SG

[jsmirman]

9. Of course the song itself was powerful

it was definitely the overexposure, and the point at which, for all of us, liking the song had to be "ironic."

All of us singers at my college would whale the song at the top of our lungs at the beer and pizza joint next to campus near the close of most nights there. Underneath the "ironic" take on the song, you had to still like it at least just a little bit to trot it out so often.

But given time to rest up again, that song will always have its original power, and the wonderful drama of the silence split by the clear-throated proclamation that is the chorus.

[Surya Gayatri]

11. I've "wailed" it on occasion, too, jsmirman...

All by myself, singing along to Youtube.

On the other hand, I've never "whaled" it--the giant sea mammal being sort of rare around here!

And I agree, the soaring refrain is goose-bump making (especially when the incomparable Whitney does it).
SG

[jsmirman]

12. oh boy

"whaled it," my Lord.

She'd probably find that funny.

[undeterred]

10. And Bobby Brown was a drama queen

http://www.cnn.com/2012/02/18/showbiz/houston-funeral-bobby-brown/index.html

Would that she'd never have met him.

[applegrove]

13. I was definitely angry when Witney first died. All I could think about was her daughter. But

during the service today I felt so bad for the mother as well as the daughter. Addiction is an illness. Hell I'm an recovering addict (smoking, binge drinking). Who am I to judge.