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What are your funeral songs?

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RainbowZebraWarrior · 11/09/2024 18:48

Appreciate it's a bit of a morbid question, but an important one (I feel) nonetheless. My family have always been quite pragmatic and have wills, but also a document entitled 'in the event of my death' My Mum keeps a copy of hers in her mobile phone case.

I think it's a last opportunity to tell people who you are / how you feel / what music you loved. Apart from that, it's also an opportunity to leave some potential comforting 'words'

My sister died young - aged only 29 - of complications from a heart issue related to her Downs Syndrome. At her funeral she had Alone by Heart and Lily The Pink played. She alos had the theme from Heartbeat. For a short time afterwards I couldn't listen to the former, but now it makes me smile. Lily The Pink made us all smile, as did Heartbeat as it was what made her smile too.

Anyway, mine are:

Stop Crying Your Heart Out by Oasis, and
White Lies by Stereophonics (I love them, amd this is my favourite song of theirs)

Apologies to anyone recently bereaved. I hope this isn't upsetting.

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JBJ · 11/09/2024 20:40

It changes regularly, but I have a list on my phone. Currently:

Good riddance (time of your life) - Green Day
Don’t cry - Guns n Roses
Life goes on - Ed Sheeran and Luke Combs
Hallelujah - Bon Jovi
Find the river - REM
What I’ve done - Linkin Park
In Loving Memory - Alter Bridge

Boymum888 · 11/09/2024 20:39

Putmeinsummer · 11/09/2024 18:49

Disco inferno, to play so you hear "burn baby burn" as I go through the curtains to get cremated.

Came here to say the same!

AmandaHoldensLips · 11/09/2024 20:39

I've specified another one bites the dust

NooNakedJacuzziness · 11/09/2024 20:38

@Downtoyou, I'm so sorry - that's absolutely heartbreaking. Flowers

JimberlyJo · 11/09/2024 20:37

Horrace · 11/09/2024 20:34

Sunshine on Leith - by The Proclaimers

You make me feel (mighty real) - by Sylvester

Are you a Hibby?

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 11/09/2024 20:36

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 11/09/2024 20:35

Gary Barlow -Let Me Go
Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman- Time To Say Goodbye

Cat Stevens- Father abd Son

JimberlyJo · 11/09/2024 20:35

Oh I thought I was the only weirdo that gave this a second thought!!

mines are fluid, current list (documented on family Spotify playlist)

fields of gold. Must be Sting not any other version.

pencil full of lead - Paulo nutini

summer wind - frank sinatra

all night long - Lionel Richie

dream a little dream of me - beautiful south

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 11/09/2024 20:35

Gary Barlow -Let Me Go
Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman- Time To Say Goodbye

Downtoyou · 11/09/2024 20:35

For my 13 year old son's recent funeral

Walking in: The Beatles - Here comes the sun (he did a Beatles music project at school and loved the song, plus I am originally from Merseyside)

Photo montage: One Direction - The story of my life

The committal: Coldplay - Sky full of stars ( he listened to Coldplay throughout all his proton beam treatment, he had cancer)

Walking out: Pharel Williams - Happy (this was a difficult choice, but we really wanted to celebrate his life. His friends did a conga and we all danced and it was magical)

I can't listen to any of these songs anymore

Horrace · 11/09/2024 20:34

Sunshine on Leith - by The Proclaimers

You make me feel (mighty real) - by Sylvester

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 11/09/2024 20:31

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 11/09/2024 20:29

Time to say goodbye, Sarah Brightman. My dp is funeral for a friend. We will have neither as going to go for pure cremation 😂

Ooh, and also Time, Pink Floyd, best song in the history of songs 😃

AgileGreenSeal · 11/09/2024 20:30

AgileGreenSeal · 11/09/2024 20:26

My top funeral song is Journey into the Morn by Iona from the album of the same name.

and a very close second is The Garden Song by Jason Upton from the album glimpse (live).

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Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 11/09/2024 20:29

Time to say goodbye, Sarah Brightman. My dp is funeral for a friend. We will have neither as going to go for pure cremation 😂

Wombat68 · 11/09/2024 20:28

Homeward Angel - Moby
Fly - Nick Drake
Turn - Travis
Raise Your Glass - Pink

MercyChant66 · 11/09/2024 20:27

Funnily enough, I've just come in from my run where I'd been thinking that The Tourists 'So good to be back home again' on my Spotify playlist would be a good funeral song for me. My other choice is Morningtown Ride by The Seekers.

thefamous5 · 11/09/2024 20:27

Who wants to live forever by Queen
My immortal by Evanescence
Dancing Queen by abba

Carrieslostshoe · 11/09/2024 20:27

Higher than the Sun - Primal Scream
Love is just a four letter word - Joan Baez
Darker than the Day - Nick Cave

Inextremis · 11/09/2024 20:24

VNV Nation - Nova :)

ShyViewer · 11/09/2024 20:23

I want to know what love is - Foreigner
Stairway to heaven - Led Zeppelin
The living years - Mike and the Mechanics

elliejjtiny · 11/09/2024 20:23

Time of our lives by Tyrone Wells
Paradise by George Ezra
Shut up and dance by walk the moon

KendraTheVampyrSlayer · 11/09/2024 20:22

Putmeinsummer · 11/09/2024 18:49

Disco inferno, to play so you hear "burn baby burn" as I go through the curtains to get cremated.

😂I want Firestarter by The Prodigy as I go through the curtains to be cremated.

ZiggyZowie · 11/09/2024 20:22

Wake me up before you go go. - WHAM

spiderdave · 11/09/2024 20:21

Rozalla - Ready to Fly
Ayla - Ayla Taucher Mix

Lincslady53 · 11/09/2024 20:18

WaverOfSticks · 11/09/2024 19:26

This.

I love this, but if takes me back to the 70s going down to London to see A Clockwork Orange before it was banned