I guess I like the idea of cremation, of having my ashes just spread across the mountains……. At least I won’t have to reason so much on my own. I pray that I live long enough to see Jill become a human being, independent of Sam and me. It’s not easy most of the time, but there is real beauty to be found in knowing that your end is going to catch up with you faster than you had expected, and that you have to get all your loving and laughing and crying done as soon as you can. Dying is beautiful, even the first time around, at the ripe old age of 20. The opening sequence of “Sunshine” goes on to show Kate’s funeral, with her saying the following words as they are recorded in her tape journals:Ĭountry roads, take me home……boy, I want them to play country roads at my funeral. As names have been changed in the film, the character of Jacquelyn is called Kate, her daughter is called Jill, and her husband Sam. An author called Norma Klein wrote a book based on this true story, also called “Sunshine”. The film was called “Sunshine”, inspired by the song “Sunshine On My Shoulders” by John Denver which is played in the film, along with other songs by him including “Take Me Home, Country Roads”. I remember seeing this film when I was young, and it was based on the true story of a 20 year old woman who lived in Colorado called Jacquelyn “Lynn” Marie Helton. These are the opening words to a little known film that was released in the USA in 1973, the year I was born. The names of the people in her life have been changed, but we have retained her spirit, and many of the actual words from the tapes. A journal that told what it was to be young, and a mother, and in love…and dying. She left behind a husband, a two year old daughter, and a journal of tape recordings. In 1971 a young woman died at the age of 20.
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