Is this a grim topic?

lindsmuse

May be it is, but then maybe it isn't - depends how you look at things. It's your funeral. What music would you like to have played ...

It was quite wierd for me at the funeral of a loved one about 2 years back when at fulltilt, in 'In the Mood' came belting thro' the chapel! His granddaughter chose it and it was so amazing - is that catharsis? Anyway. I promise you it changed the whole mood of the proceedings and it was not disrespectful. The old man really dug his big bands! Sad and sweet.

For my part I chose my song long ago. 'Carry on' Crosby Stills' Very loud please. ?

NorioDS

I would want something upbeat and fun. I'd want it to be a party celebrating my life not a miff event mourning my death!

Ray

Hey I dont know. Upbeat and fun? Maybe not for me. Cant say I care much I dont think I'll crack an invite anyway. Like the last person I want at my funeral.

AlanRatcliffe

Peter Sellers was buried to the sounds of the Can-Can. ? That's the way to do it - make it a fun event that people can celebrate your life, not mourn your passing. Have a great wake (pissup), like the Irish do.

singemonkey

Let someone in attendance choose. It's not like I'm going to hear it ?

lindsmuse

Well that depends on how loud ,,,

Bob-Dubery

singemonkey wrote Let someone in attendance choose. It's not like I'm going to hear it ?

I'm with SM.

I have a little list of songs that I'd like played at my funeral (number 1 being Richard & Linda Thompson's "When I Get To The Border", a jolly little ditty about who you can have a nice rest once you've shuffled off this mortal coil, and I have a mischievous urge to include Chris Woods "Come Down Jehovah") but my instruction will be that these choices, together with any choices RE ceremonies be left to those surviving me. I might leave a letter stating my preferences, but funerals are really for those still living and they have to do what gets them through it all. Assuming, of course, that anybody notices that I'm gone.

I think "In The Mood" is fine IMO. A better choice than is often made by people who pick songs without having thought about what the song is saying - EG couples having their first dance as newly weds to "Every Breath You Take".

lindsmuse

Cant say I care much I dont think I'll crack an invite anyway. Like the last person I want at my funeral.

I'm going to steal that - that's classic .... ?

Peter Sellers was buried to the sounds of the Can-Can.

That is so funny .... funny to the very last moment!

Assuming, of course, that anybody notices that I'm gone.

Very 'umble ... ?

Bob-Dubery

lindsmuse wrote
Assuming, of course, that anybody notices that I'm gone.
Very 'umble ... ?

Well many of my friends are a little older than I am, and somebody has to be last. And I have no kids so I have, I think, a better than average chance of having not too many people left around to mourn me.

So not so much humble as grimly realistic. :-\

Ray

This is reminding me a bit of the last woodworkers assoc meeting I was at. Most of the okes are a little older than young and every month they have like a show and tell and this guy hops up there and shows the group (and it is a big group that fills a whole church hall) the little box that he has made for his pal and his pal's wifes' ashes. And he says he is taking orders and hell! you just see hands going up. Now maybe I should tell him what you people want to hear at your funeral and he can build in one of those music box things and you can hear it for all eternity. 'Sgonna be like having 1 cd in the car all the way to cape town.

lindsmuse

'Sgonna be like having 1 cd in the car all the way to cape town.

Meeeeerrrrrrccccccyyyyyyy!!!!!!! No built in music pleeeeassse.
Maybe some of that random music. Piiiiinnnnng.... Ponnnnng. ....plunketty ...... BONG!!!! and so on ...

Well many of my friends are a little older than I am, and somebody has to be last. And I have no kids so I have, I think, a better than average chance of having not too many people left around to mourn me.
So not so much humble as grimly realistic.

That is indeed a grim fact(but I'm sure there are a lot of people who love you nevertheless ?).

But the music never ever dies - agh well you know someone had to say that....

Seventhson

I want Hell awaits by slayer or Highway to heel by acdc.?

Bob-Dubery

Seventhson wrote I want Hell awaits by slayer or Highway to heel by acdc.?

I hope those surviving you get the joke.

Riaan

Well if it's natural causes that got me, "shine on you crazy diamond" should do it. If it's the electric chair, "I wanna hold you hand" seems appropriate... ?

racman

Mmmm ....I might stipulate Queen's "Another one Bites the Dust" played forwards first and then backwards to possibly reveal "It's fun to smoke marijuana." !!! ? ?

Seventhson

X-rated Bob wrote
Seventhson wrote I want Hell awaits by slayer or Highway to heel by acdc.?
I hope those surviving you get the joke.

Well it is my funeral? I am an atheist and my family knows it.

singemonkey

Seventhson wrote
X-rated Bob wrote
Seventhson wrote I want Hell awaits by slayer or Highway to heel by acdc.?
I hope those surviving you get the joke.
Well it is my funeral? I am an atheist and my family knows it.

Careful old boy. Alan's getting grey hairs just looking at this topic waiting for a nightmare explosion. I know. I cause him half of them myself (not intentionally).

But yes, I'm sure they will get the joke come the time.

AlanRatcliffe

Well, I could say that atheism isn't religion (that's the whole point, innit?), so you can discuss it. But I won't. ? 'Cos it would cause the thread to degenerate into something looking like the comments on the Pharyngula blog.

singemonkey

Alan Ratcliffe wrote Well, I could say that atheism isn't religion (that's the whole point, innit?), so you can discuss it. But I won't. ? 'Cos it would cause the thread to degenerate into something looking like the comments on the Pharyngula blog.

Now you're just making trouble for yourself ?

Renesongs

One thing I have learned in life is that funerals are for the living not the dead. So no matter how much in our vanity we may wish to dictate how our loved ones morn, celebrate or commemorate our departure it is inevitably that they will do it in the way they wish. I say this because even though I openly discuss my lack of religious convictions I am sure that my daughter will insist on having me planted in a church yard, (and if I had the power I would then reincarnate into a cannabis bush)