What kind of music would you like played at your funeral?

At whatever memorial I have, I hope people are ready to celebrate. To that end, I want Before They Make Me Run

And it really hit home
Booze and pills and powders, you can choose your medicine
Well here’s another goodbye to another good friend
After all is said and done
Gotta move while it’s still fun
Let me walk before they make me run

I don’t plan on having a funeral. I’m dead, I don’t need a bunch of people feeling obligated to come to my service and funerals are expensive. I will be cremated and then my daughter can decide what to do with my ashes. I think funerals are passe, just burn or bury the dead and move on, or throw a celebration of life party, if people need to do that for their own reasons.

I’m pretty much with Coloma on that, I won’t know the difference anyway. But if they do have a funeral, I want it upbeat, no moaning and groaning. Play something I liked in life, like “Flowers on the Wall” by the Statler Brothers. If there is any religious music or sobbing, I swear I’ll come back and haunt them. If I can.

You guys, I clarified in the details that I won’t have a funeral either. This question was strictly for fun.

*Oops…well then, I want Dust in the Wind played as my ashes are swooshed away. LOL

Hire some random children, and have them sing this one

If we must be serious I want Me and Bobby McGee.
Then the clean version of “Then I got high.”
If someone insists on something religious I go with “Amazing Grace,” because Dad said that was the song at his mom’s funeral.
And for those who want to cry I’ll go with Diana Ross’ “Touch me in the morning,”... We don’t have tomorrow but we have yesterday.
Damn. Now I’m listening to it and crying! I ain’t even daid yet!

None.
Let me die in silence.

I think it’s more about what your family and friends would like to see.

You asked what would I like.
They can have their parades and other bullshit, but if I’m the one to decide things, there will be no music. Nor people. In fact, I’d donate my organs and have no funeral at all.

I wouldn’t decide it. I’d let the people planning it make that decision.

Well, it started off as a joke thread @Sneki2, but then it got all serious and stuff.

No religious music. No Amazing Grace. Or else I will haunt the singer for awhile.

This plus a few other more, in an infinite loop. I see my funeral more like a party. I want martinis, scotch and sushi served, while everyone shares some fun memory and have a blast.

Then during the eulogy, the one think that they are allowed to say is: “Luiz said that he regrets nothing, and that you are forbidden to sell his toys and his Simpsons pharaphernalia”.

Adagio for Strings by Samuel Barber, which has been called the saddest music ever written.

(Hail to the Chief is the second saddest.)

This has kind of gotten derailed, so let’s throw it off the tracks altogether! I have a question that I’d prefer to bury in the this thread rather than posting a whole new public question:

My husband and I need to start making end of life plans. I’ve made mine, cremation, and informed all of my children. I haven’t put it in legal writing yet, though.
When I first met my husband 15 years ago he was dead set against cremation for some nebulous religious reason, although he’s never been particularly religious.
Since then my mother and father both passed, and they were cremated.
And then, about 2 years ago, a young adult relative of his died and became the first member of his family to be cremated. That really shocked many family members, but it finally got my husband to start reconsidering it.
He’s hinted that it would probably be the best thing to do, and he isn’t against it, but refuses to verbally give me a firm plan, in the event he should go before me. He also refuses to put it in writing.
My thoughts are, if he’s not going to tell me what he wants me to do, then I’ll make the decision, and that will be for cremation.

And that’s my problem.

He has a huge family. On average of twice a year a family member dies, and we almost always go to the funeral. They are always the same: Fairly lavish affairs, in a church, with an expensive beautiful coffin, open casket (which is hideous IMO, and I try to discretely avoid the viewing line) then a dinner afterward. I have neither the desire nor the money to afford that pomp and circumstance just to put someone in the ground.
So if the time comes, how do I approach the family? I realize that I have all the legal rights here, as his wife, but that isn’t my concern. I don’t want to offend anyone so terribly, which that might.
Do I just go ahead with my own plan and they can just deal with it, or tell the family what I plan to do and suggest if they want the pomp and ceremony that they can pay for it, and I will donate what it would have cost for cremation?

Graceland by Paul Simon

@Dutchess_III I’d just wait until it becomes more obvious who might die first. If its you then they can sort it all out on their own. haha

Donovan Reimer – Heart of the Matter and other Techno space music.

Well I’m mad because he has some pretty serious medical issues he isn’t properly addressing @Coloma
And I’m 7 years younger.

@Dutchess_III That’s too bad, what’cha gonna do? :-/

Ask questions about what the hell to do.

This is one of the occasion when the detail is crucial. @Dutchess_III has already stated in her first line that this question is for fun. Maybe you need to put a “fun” tag too @Dutchess_III? Or even have a “just for fun” on your title?

And to answer the question with the respect to the detail, I would like to hear the song at the end of this video. Bonus for a team of performers who would recreate the whole scene. Because that is my life, dying like a crook ~

Out of politeness, I’d like to attend each of yours and see how the songs go at a live venue before deciding on mine.

I’ll probably get this girl to do back-up vocals to my rendition of this happy days are here again song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_NpxTWbovE K.D. Lang sings Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah

Then I’d raunch into the lead on:
Eleanor Rigby – by ZOOT (Better than Beatles version!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iptr7i7sFkM

They’ll be paean themselves with delight at my death when they see my inter-active media auto-eulogy including the reading of the will and some of my other fave poetry.

@Dutchess_III Cremate him right away; when the family asks what the hell happened, say that is what Rick wanted. You are the wife, you get to make the decision, and you can make it before his family even knows he is gone.

You are probably right. I just dont want to cause grief….

The soundtrack to “A Fistful of Dollars.”

Showtunes

“Raised by Wolves” by U2
(When I open my eyes you disappear)

I would like something that the audience probably feels is completely inappropriate but is something I like(d) and which meant something to me. In the spirit of “Music is stronger than death”.

@Dutchess_III – split the difference and donate him to a body farm.

LOL! They’d REALLY have a stroke!