Sure, this is absolutely a joke you could make — especially while feeling pumpkin spicy in the month of October, with Ed Sheeran having just released his Autumn Variations album. It's actually true, though.
In a new interview with GQ, the singer-songwriter revealed that he has a gravesite in his backyard. It's like the old adage goes: if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, even if it means Vanity Fair might report that your neighbours "have grave misgivings."
"I wouldn't say it's a crypt," Sheeran clarified with journalist Lauren Larson. He explained that the area was built as a chapel to mourn the people in his life who have been cremated, and he's also had friends get married there.
Sheeran also didn't initially plan on planning to have it be his own final resting place, but he was struck by how beautiful it was and decided he wanted to be buried there. "It's a hole that's dug in the ground with a bit of stone over it, so whenever the day comes and I pass away, I get to go in there," he continued. "People think it's really weird and really morbid, but I've had friends die without wills, and no one knows what to do."
Death is indeed a tricky business, and while he's likely more known for his meditations on grieving the losses of others, Sheeran has done considerable thinking about his own mortality too.
He told Larson about feeling uncomfortable writing "Salt Water" from this year's earlier Aaron Dessner-produced effort, -, which is about imagining his own suicide. "I was like, 'Fuck, I don't want to put this out and have my parents listen to this,'" the artist recalled, having felt a similar kind of humiliation penning his wedding staple "Perfect" for wife Cherry Seaborn.
Perhaps Sheeran has reached his astronomical levels of success because he wholly embraces those shameful feelings, having said back in 2021 that he only releases songs worthy of his own embarrassment.
In a new interview with GQ, the singer-songwriter revealed that he has a gravesite in his backyard. It's like the old adage goes: if you want something done right, you have to do it yourself, even if it means Vanity Fair might report that your neighbours "have grave misgivings."
"I wouldn't say it's a crypt," Sheeran clarified with journalist Lauren Larson. He explained that the area was built as a chapel to mourn the people in his life who have been cremated, and he's also had friends get married there.
Sheeran also didn't initially plan on planning to have it be his own final resting place, but he was struck by how beautiful it was and decided he wanted to be buried there. "It's a hole that's dug in the ground with a bit of stone over it, so whenever the day comes and I pass away, I get to go in there," he continued. "People think it's really weird and really morbid, but I've had friends die without wills, and no one knows what to do."
Death is indeed a tricky business, and while he's likely more known for his meditations on grieving the losses of others, Sheeran has done considerable thinking about his own mortality too.
He told Larson about feeling uncomfortable writing "Salt Water" from this year's earlier Aaron Dessner-produced effort, -, which is about imagining his own suicide. "I was like, 'Fuck, I don't want to put this out and have my parents listen to this,'" the artist recalled, having felt a similar kind of humiliation penning his wedding staple "Perfect" for wife Cherry Seaborn.
Perhaps Sheeran has reached his astronomical levels of success because he wholly embraces those shameful feelings, having said back in 2021 that he only releases songs worthy of his own embarrassment.
