The Internet Rallied to Help This Dad Recover His Late Wife's Music to Play to Their Son

After his wife passed away during childbirth, Jared Buhanan-Decker had an "odd request" for the internet — he needed help accessing her music so his newborn son, James (JJ), could hear her voice and she could sing him lullabies.

"My wife recently died during the childbirth of our first baby, needless to say life has been hell the last two months. She dabbled in writing and recording songs nothing professional of course but very important to me," he wrote on Reddit. He explained that he needed help converting the videos into a simple format, because "she knew how to do all of this stuff but I have no idea. I just want to be able to hear her voice again. Thank you."

All it took was a few hours for the Reddit community to put their audio-engineering brains together to covert the files and send Jared Sharry's music in a playable format — one user even offered to produce a full song with her music! Now baby JJ can listen to his mother's beautiful voice with the touch of a button.

Before she passed away, Jared's wife started a blog to write about their adventures together, and Jared has continued where she left off, writing about his life with JJ. "And I would be remiss if I didn't mention how good absolute and complete strangers have been on Reddit and elsewhere," he wrote in a post. "Baby girl I doubt there will ever be anything that completely fills the giant Sharry size hole in my heart and soul but people are helping, at least a bit, and for all this I am grateful."