To ask for your funeral music

Sunshine on Leith is beautiful.

I also heard this on the radio one day and it made me sob and I have no idea why. I'm not Scottish either but It is also now on my funeral play list

In your will is too late, IME wills aren’t usually dealt with until after the funeral.

1. A Bird In The Thyme - Tiny Ruins
2. Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
3. Teo Torriate - Queen

I believe songs are a way of communicating our love and wishes to those we leave behind.

For my sons; A Dream is a Wish Your Heart Makes and When You Wish Upon a Star (both Disney songs). Songs that I hope would encourage them to dream and follow those dreams.

For Friends & Family: In My Life (The Beatles). The lyrics make it pretty self explanatory.

For my Husband: God Bless the Broken Road (Rascal Flatts) because we found our true love in each other after kissing a few toads/toadesses.

And just because I love Bluegrass: Reunion in Heaven (The Primitive Quartet)

But, since DH and I have both decide we don't want funerals, our loved ones can play their favourite party music, rock on, and share good memories and good times.

I want Bat Out of Hell. I also want something by Bruce Springsteen although I can't decide what, Clare Island by the Saw Doctors and Fairytale of New York. DH said I'll need a double slot at the crem just for the music!

I want a traditional funeral in church. Hymns should include “How Great Thou Art” and “Amazing Grace“. I also want “Don’t You (forget about me)“ by Simple Minds playing as people leave the church.

Bigmouth strikes again by the smiths

Best one yet 🤣

Entrance of the Queen of Sheba.

As a 9 year old I remember my great nan saying to my Nan about me "who does she think she is, the Queen of sheba?" So I want to answer finally with yep. Yep I do.

The birdie song, with the actions (not me of course as I will be dead)

😂😂😂😂

Hot in herre by Nelly at my cremation 👌

Mendelssohn organ sonata in d minor.

My mum loved that, so we had it at her funeral.

I can't remember what we had at my dad's funeral, but she used to tease him that she was having the hymn "Glad that I live am I" and the gospel song, "O Happy Day" played when he went!

I'm having a direct cremation, so no need for any of it. But if I wasn't, I'd have this:

It was one of mine and my late DP's favourite songs, and we had it played at his funeral. I can't listen to it now, it makes me too sad.

The only way is up....I hope.

Bridge over Troubled waters and A Century Ends

The Boatman - levellers
Strange Little Girl - Stranglers
For a Few Dollars More - Lee Scratch Perry & The Upsetters

It will probably surprise none of you that I want a Welsh hymn at my funeral. Given the limited number of people likely to outlive me who can speak Welsh, sadly that rules out Calon Lan.

I'd be happy with Guide Me O Thou Great Reedemer.

Sunshine on Leith by The Proclaimers
And
Ding Dong the Witch is Dead from The Wizard of Oz, just for a laugh

None. It's in my will that I don't want a funeral. Same for my partner.

Indeed, my favourite living singer.

"Sleeping soul, sleeping soul,
Take my hand, keep tight hold
You are never on your own,
You are never on your own.."

Just beautiful.

(I was at Scarborough Spa, it was electric!)

Hello fellow Irish MNer 👋🏻

Living funeral is where you haven't popped it yet but you know it's kinda sooner rather than later.

Dementia runs in my family, I have a few risk factors. I don't want to exist for yonks with no memory or knowledge of who I am, who my kids are... If I'm not me, I'm not there. So I've decided that if that's what life has in store for me, at the first signs of it I'm having a living funeral, ye can all tell me how wonderful I am while I'm around to hear it and then I'll go out on my own terms after that.

But I'll have a feckin fab party before I go.

My MIL chose a song by Elbow for her funeral and we find it impossible to hear without remembering that was time.
I would like Dido's lament (When I am laid in earth), but I know my family would hate it and find it incredibly sad, so maybe I will have to choose something else.

Tom Waits - Come on up to the House.

'Come down off the cross, we could use the wood, you gotta come on up to the house's.