Michael Rosen - The Death of Eddie
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2023
- In 1999, Eddie Steele Rosen - son, brother, friend and very much his own true self - died. He caught meningitis. He was 18 years old. It was a shock to all who knew and loved him and now, nearly 25 years later, he's very much remembered and loved. We think of him every day, we remember his jokes, we remember his hopes. Sometimes it's hard to cope with him not being there. We imagine him seeing all the things we've been doing.
This is a film by one of us: Eddie's dad, Michael.
This film has been supported by Apples and Snakes as part of our 40th anniversary. Apples and Snakes has been lucky to work with Michael Rosen since the 1980’s and are delighted to support the making of this film, an emotional exploration of Michael’s experience of the death of his much-loved son Eddie, and example of the poets’ unique ability to capture and comment on the world around us.
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Written and Performed by Michael Rosen
Cinematography and Editing: Matthew Dove
Producer: Lisa Mead (Apples and Snakes)
Camera Assistant: Emile Rosen
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Never have I seen grief being portrayed so beautifully.
Thank you for telling the story. It must have cost. It meant so much to me because it wasn't poetic, romanticised or dramatised: it was human. The best we can ever be.
I have just lost my father in a bodged medical procedure. Michael is saving my life with this on repeat. Thank you Michael.
When Eddie died I was working as a public health nurse & responsible for the roll out of the Men C vaccine later in 2000. Vaccines to protect against meningococcal infection have advanced so much & children are protected against the disease throughout their childhood now. 0:41 0:41 This vaccine prevented so many deaths like Eddie’s. Listening to you talk about your son is so moving, not maudlin but honest & personal & funny. I only wish that these vaccines could have come sooner for young people like Eddie. Love to you all. ❤❤
This made me want to tell the people in my life I love them. And that I am glad they're with me. Thank you Michael.
this was such an incredibly human piece of art. thank you for making this michael and everyone who helped make this possible.
He's an anti-Semite.
Thank you for sharing your story of your boy. Your love for him and his for you, permeate through the entire piece like a stick of rock.
Its coming on 10 years since I lost my older brother to suicide. He was the same age as eddie. I cant tell you how much I resonated with so many aspects of what you've told here, but the two that stick out are the almost clinical relationship we must find with the event itself to be able to tell others about it and the tiny things we lose in the time afterwards. There are many jokes about a man with an orange head that I've also lost.
Thank you for writing and reading this beautiful story about your boy.
So much of this resonates Michael, for anyone who's lost someone close. The 'music' is the one that follows me, finding its way through the cracks. Thanks for this, it will help many, I'm sure of it.
How unbelievably tough and painful for you to live with dear Eddie’s loss Michael. I believe when we are grieving there is no right or wrong - we just do whatever helps us cope with our loss. We talk, we don’t talk, we share, we don’t share, we visit places that help us remember, or not but whatever we need to do is OK. I read that the body deals with grief with the same processes it deals with a major injury. This helped me understand that when we are grieving we do well to look after ourselves with gentleness, love and caring. God bless.
This is very helpful thank you
Oh bless you. It is lovely to share these findings which I believe to be so true.@@baigecr
This is a masterpiece.... a work of art... The way mr Rosen is narrating these stories is hypnotizing really. I wish I get to the tenth of the level that this legend is on story telling.
Thank you so much. I was expecting grief, but not also the immense joy that comes through in this telling. Superb and utterly human.
michael rosen is a wonderful person
He's an anti-Semite like the late Bobby Fischer.
Michael Rosen is a vile anti-Semite.
Thankyou for helping me understand better my own grief
Thank you! . This was incredibly moving and had me in tears several times. It is full of love and compassion and one of the most touching expressions of grief I have ever listened to. Thank you again.
RIP Eddie.
Thank you for telling this touching story. God bless.
Thank you for bravely sharing your story.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing your innermost thoughts regarding your grief and your son. Best wishes from a grieving mother.
beautiful, thank you
An Orange Head Joke:
A man walks into a bar. As he's ordering a beer, he happens to glance down towards the other end of the bar and see a man with a big orange head. As the bartender brings his beer, the man asks him, "What's with the guy with the big orange head?"
The bartender chuckles. "Yeah," he says, "That's a helluva story, alright. Why don't you go buy him a drink, and maybe he'll tell you about it."
So the man walks over to the guy with the orange head, introduces himself, and offers to buy him a beer. The guy with the orange head says, "Let me guess. You want to hear about the head?"
The first guy says, "Well, yeah. If you don't mind."
The man with the orange head says, "Alright. Lord knows I've run it over in my mind a million times, anyway. So, it's like this: One day, I was walking along a beach, when I stubbed my toe on something. I looked down, and there, sticking out of the sand, was an antique lamp. So I picked it up and brushed away some of the sand, when a big cloud of blue smoke erupted from it. When the smoke cleared, a genie was standing there. And this genie said to me, 'Thank you for freeing me from my 5,000-year confinement. For doing this, I will grant you two wishes.'
"So, I think, wow, okay. And I do what many people would. For my first wish, I wish to be fantastically wealthy. So the genie snaps his fingers, and suddenly I'm covered in jewels. Hundreds of necklaces, three rings per finger, a crown on my head, and a chest full of gold next to me besides all that."
At this point in the story, the first man is in amazement. He just can't believe what he's hearing. Eager to hear the rest, he says, "So what was your second wish?"
The man with the orange head slowly takes a sip of his beer. He puts it down, and says, "You know. This may be where I went wrong... I wished for a big orange head."
This is beyond touching.
Thank you for sharing something so personal❤
Thank you so much for sharing this Michael - Eddie will always be with us.
Thank you for sharing this. I have no words, just love.
I love this man!!
Thank you for telling your story- there is no pain like the loss of a loved one and I know it couldn’t have been easy. It’s beautiful to hear about your love for your son; I’m sorry for your loss. Thank you again!
This is beautiful.
So beautiful
It’s kinda cool there’s been no YTP’s about his son’s death, or anything genuinely close to Rosen’s heart. A truly lovable man.
Because that would be extremely distasteful and messed up, especially since the story is pretty sad and it was a trauma that Michael still can't get over.
This is heartbreaking. Always the nicest people who receive the worst life has to offer.
Rosen is a major anti-Semite.
Aww Michael. You are such a geat guy.
God, absolutely heartbreaking.
Thank you @michaelrosen5422
I hope I never experience that level of suffering, and all the unexpected ways that it suddenly comes to the top of consciousness.
I love my dog more than I love myself, when the time comes my biggest fear is people not understanding the love we had. the fear of hearing he is just a dog, and will I get another is something that lsvared me everyday Respect all loss of life great and small. This was a bittersweet story that will help Millions deal with loss, Micheal you are wonderful I am deeply sorry for your loss.
Please do not make YTP's of this out of respect and decency, thank you.
You are not the only one. I tell them too stop making that filth too.
@@charliedrosario999 I love the other Rosen YTP's of his poems and such but this is something to never joke about.
@@ThierryRocksTVoh come on... youve seen other ones they are just as horrible, if you respect those filth, then this one will be made one in the same
@@hellishcyberdemon7112 Nah they are still funny due to being so stupid and over the top, plus the source material is only from his poems or TV appearances, not tragic life stories.
@@hellishcyberdemon7112 The subject matter is far more different. Surely you understand that.
Thank you.
So sad.
Riveting writing. RIP Eddie, I would have liked to have known you. Also, lets hope Arsenal win the league for legend, Micheal Rosen x
A man walks into a bar. As he's ordering a beer, he happens to glance down towards the other end of the bar and see a man with a big orange head. As the bartender brings his beer, the man asks him, "What's with the guy with the big orange head?"
The bartender chuckles. "Yeah," he says, "That's a helluva story, alright. Why don't you go buy him a drink, and maybe he'll tell you about it."
So the man walks over to the guy with the orange head, introduces himself, and offers to buy him a beer. The guy with the orange head says, "Let me guess. You want to hear about the head?"
The first guy says, "Well, yeah. If you don't mind."
The man with the orange head says, "Alright. Lord knows I've run it over in my mind a million times, anyway. So, it's like this: One day, I was walking along a beach, when I stubbed my toe on something. I looked down, and there, sticking out of the sand, was an antique lamp. So I picked it up and brushed away some of the sand, when a big cloud of blue smoke erupted from it. When the smoke cleared, a genie was standing there. And this genie said to me, 'Thank you for freeing me from my 5,000-year confinement. For doing this, I will grant you two wishes.'
"So, I think, wow, okay. And I do what many people would. For my first wish, I wish to be fantastically wealthy. So the genie snaps his fingers, and suddenly I'm covered in jewels. Hundreds of necklaces, three rings per finger, a crown on my head, and a chest full of gold next to me besides all that."
At this point in the story, the first man is in amazement. He just can't believe what he's hearing. Eager to hear the rest, he says, "So what was your second wish?"
The man with the orange head slowly takes a sip of his beer. He puts it down, and says, "You know. This may be where I went wrong... I wished for a big orange head."
Lovely. Thanks very much.
Ah, I misremembered it. Really, it's 'you only found out WHY he had an orange for a head at the end'. No matter. It's about misremembering anyway.
@@michaelrosen5422 How shameful to be a Jewish anti-Semite.
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10:47 That's oddly chilling
Damn, what a trauma
I cant help but notice him mentioning playing fifa & tekken at the age of 19 - fifa & tekken didnt exist when he was 19
They definitely did. Those game franchises have been around for quite some time now.
@@planetdarksky Maybe Im wrong, but it says on google he is 77 years old.
The first fifa released 1993 (again, according to what I found on google)
Eddie died in 1999. In that year and the year before we played Tekken. We also played a football game. It may have been called Fifa or something else, now you come to mention it, though I'm pretty sure it was Fifa. Or are you muddled over who was nearly 19? Eddie was nearly 19 in 1999. He died. I'm 77. I didn't die.
@@michaelrosen5422 oh jeez, how embarrassing of me. When listening to this I somehow assumed you were both around the same age (I never read the video description) - I didn't know it was your son you were talking about until now.
Still, thank you for sharing your story Michael.
@@michaelrosen5422 You should have.
Too late already happened
How shameful to continue to abuse his own son, even in death.