To what music would you want to die?
If you knew in advance that you were about to die (you’re on your deathbed, or you’re about to be executed, you’re holding your rifle and next to go over the top into the teeth of machinegun fire, etc.), what music would you choose to have playing as you die? Something fierce and triumphant, like Ride of the Valkyries? Something pastoral and wistful, like Ode to Joy? Something solemn and dignified, like Gregorian chanting? Or maybe something personal, which reflects the sort of life you’ve lived?
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I’d want some mellow guitar songs by James Taylor, Todd Rundgren, and Jesse Colin Young.
Hells Bells, AC/DC
I’m rolling thunder, I’m pouring rain. I’m coming on like a hurricane…. You’re only young, but your gonna die.
If you want Blood, AC/DC.
You got it.
I want to hear the twinkling of the stars I’ve slept under, and the waters I’ve let run beneath my feet ringing with the soprano of my children’s voices, once again, calling to me with laughter. The jazz of Dixieland and the mournful sound of Blues, I want to remind me of my encounters, one and all, on this piece of earth where I’ve nested for a short time. I want to feel the bass of the men I have loved drawing me and rocking me to a warm sleep.I want to hear my mother’s voice, like a shepherd’s tune, telling me it is time to come home.
Weird Al’s music, like “Smells like Nirvana” ... Followed by inspiring video game music, like “Final Fantasy’s best final boss music”. Then some Star Trek battle music. Then I would like to end up with the marvel universes best music on shuffle (like the intro’s to cartoons, for example the Avengers theme song) until I die… I would like to include all the video to the music if possible.
Dark Side of the Moon LP.
@erichw1504 Psst… your link comes back to this question.
Maybe Audioslave’s I am the Highway. It starts kind of soothing, and finishes strong.
I am going with this
I’ve been a fan of it since childhood. Most kids would roll around in high school blaring Zepplin or Metallica. I like both of those bands but I would roll around blaring this and sometimes I still do. I’ve listened to this song through headphones in the middle of foreign lands, on top of city buildings, at my daughters birth, on the way to my grandmothers funeral, and just out and about.
Grateful DEAD! Obvious answer to me. :)
I think I would want silence. Is that answer ok on this Q? I don’t know, I have a feeling dying takes concentration, depending on the situation. I knew a woman with terminal cancer and about a week before she died she said to her husband, “I don’t know how to die.” She was very sick and in a lot of pain, and I guess maybe she had to let go of life. It wasn’t that she had not accepted she was dying, she had fought a hard battle, I think she was ready, but wasn’t sure how to go about it, or how it happens. Another woman I know who also fought many years terrible cancer, when her husband talked about her final day, he spoke of her taking massive amounts of pain killers. I don’t think she was suicidal at all, I don’t think she was purposely overdosing, I just think she was in agony, knew the risks, and knew to release her pain might cause her death, and she was ready to accept it if it happened. Probably both of them could have gone on longer if they had willed it. I think for me music would be distracting, but maybe the distraction would be welcome? I usually never listen to music in times of sorrow. Music for me lifts my spirits, I like up beat music that gives me energy.
Anything by AC/DC works actually. Just play it loud.
Hmm, it entirely depends on how I set the scene. Let’s say I decided to cut my wrists in the bath tub. First, I would make damn sure my home was clean. Really clean. I would dust the baseboards. I would hang a picture of a body of water by the front door and put fresh flowers in the kitchen. In the bathroom I would determine the proper angle for the mirrored medicine cabinet to capture the tub from the door and angle it accordingly. The tub is filled and my sharps are neatly laid out on folding dinner tray next to the tub. I’m wearing something in light colors that will stain nicely, possibly my vintage champagne jacquard dress.
The pizza delivery guy arrives to find my door ajar with a note telling him to come in and leave the pizza on the counter (one hawaiian and a cheese) and call the police, the pizza is for them. His money is on the counter and a rented white peacock stares down from the top of the refrigerator. My Keating cd is looping.
It’s impossible to find online so I’ve uploaded it. It will only be up for 14 days. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pretty sure Blue and Symbeline will like it.
PS. I’m too much of a wimp to cut myself. I just really love a good tableau.
Stayin Alive
“You can tell by the way I use my walk….......i’m a fuckin zombie!”
Any song Alex has written for me. Probably this one.
Talking Heads Once In a Lifetime.
Heads Will Roll by Yeah Yeah Yeah’s. Or anything with the artist with the tune “Gaga” in the name.
@blueberry_kid You play anything with Gaga in it and death can’t come soon enough.
This
” ‘Cause the hardest part of this, is leaving you….”
Rest in Pieces – Misanthrope
The theme song for Dawn of the Dead. I’ve considered it my personal theme song since I was a teen, so might as well die to it lol.
I’m not sure yet, but I think there’s something ironic going on here…but either way, I find it extremely fitting. ^^
Maybe the album Kid A, by Radiohead.
Anything by The Rolling Stones.
If I gotta go, I wanna go rockin’!
I know this is too late to be answered, but I’ve been thinking of death lately, too frequently, might I add, and I’ve come to the serious conclusion of wanting to have Mozart’s requiems played. (Especially confutatis and lacrimosa).
Some of Bach’s masses would also be beautiful.
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