Swan Song charity helps Leeds woman with cancer record funeral song

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Sharna Matthews says the process has helped her 'deal with the hurt' of leaving loved ones behind.

When Sharna Matthews found out her lung cancer was terminal, she turned to music to process her feelings.

Mrs Matthews, 47, said her diagnosis was a "smack in the face" but that creating her swan song had helped her to "make sense of it all"."Going through this process has really helped me to understand and express how I'm feeling," she said. She was referred to Macmillan Cancer Support by nurses, and said it helped her to "think about living rather than dying".Mrs Matthews' song is a parting gift to her loved ones, with the lyrics describing the important and joyous moments in her life, such as travelling in her blue camper van with her family."You'll see me in the clouds, the wind and the rain,Her husband Jim said he had been playing the song constantly.

"Part of the death anxiety people have when they find out they don't have long left is 'do my family know how much I love them?'

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