Fred Stobaugh age 95 writes a song and it goes viral.

Fred’s wife of 75 years had passed away a month before,and he read about a song writing contest so he entered it. He did not win because he didn’t send in the recording just the words along with a letter about his wife.  You may have seen this video produced by Green Shoe Studio’s on YouTube. Fred is from Peoria, Ill and saw a contest asking for original songs on YouTube. So he wrote a letter and sent in the letter. The letter deeply touched the staff at Green Shoe and they decided to recorded it.

The name of the song is Oh,Sweet Lorraine.

“It’s one of them things where sometimes it’s just really good to give back and being 96 years old I pretty much knew he was probably on a fixed income. … We were just so touched by the fact that he loved her so much that he wrote a song at 96 and wanted to enter it into a singer/songwriter contest. The gumption to do that was kind of inspiring. Plus, I teared up in the letter,” Jacob Colgan Production Manager of Green Shoe Studio.

What are your plans at age 95?

I think a better way to ask this would be that if you are still living on planet earth and you are in your 90’s then do you believe God can still use you?

This story and video about Fred made me ponder about life, and confirm again that it is not natural for man to determine when a person dies? God is the giver of life and until He is ready for us to die, then we should live.

Life and death CAN NOT exist in the same person at the same time.

You are either dead or alive.

Man is not just a body, but is a body and a soul. God breathed His life into Adam and called him man. At our last breath we are dead. We are not dead when the heart is still breathing, we are not dead even if we need help from a ventilator.

When you are on a ventilator it is moving air into your body. It does not cause the other part of breathing–respiration; that is, it does not and it cannot exchange oxygen and carbon dioxide that occurs in lungs and body tissues. Respiration can occur only when the body’s respiratory and circulatory systems are otherwise intact and functioning properly.Respiration is human function, not machine function.

A dead person can not respire.

We are living in a culture of death where people are looked upon for what they can contribute to society. What a person can contribute to society is more important than you are a breathing human.Our culture has accepted the value that is more important to eliminate suffering than to defend the sanctity of life for every human being.

What a sweet, sweet life Fred had with his wife of 75 years, and even in her death Fred was able to continue to fulfill a purpose and accomplish a song that magically goes viral and touches the hearts of millions of people.

Oh sweet Lorraine, I wish we could do all the good times over again
Oh sweet Lorraine, life only goes around once but never again
Oh sweet Lorraine, I wish we could do all the good times over again

The good times, the good times, the good times all over again
The good times, the good times, the good times all over again

But the memories always linger on oh sweet Lorraine i don’t wanna move on
But the memories always linger on oh sweet Lorraine that’s why i wrote you this song

Oh sweet Lorraine, I wish we could do all the good times over again
Oh sweet Lorraine, life only goes around once but never again
Oh sweet Lorraine, I wish we could do all the good times over again.

I was fascinated by his life and how at age 95 he continues to make an impact.