If you could choose the last piece of music you would hear before you die, what would you have ?

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Assuming you're not on Death Row or about to be flattened by a bus...

Anyway, I'd go for either Meditation from Thais by Jules Massenet, or Yoda's Theme by John Williams. They're both very serene and of much depth. The perfect musical accompaniment to slipping away quietly🙂.

Comfortably numb - Pink Floyd

I'd have Grieg's Morning
Or the Buzzcocks Ever Fallen in Love with Someone....

Waiting for Costeau

Brahms German Requiem. I could listen to that on repeat for hours!

Though someone upthread mentioned their son's music - my children too are composing some lovely music so that might also go on my list.

I think Gymnopedies 1 and 2 by Satie would be nice 'leaving' music as well.

Something my Thomas Tallis. Probably 'If Ye Love Me'

I work with people who are dying and it always amazes me that more don't have music on in the background. Often there's a TV with homes under the hammer or something else on but not often music.

I've already told DH I want absolute radio 90's on in the background once I'm bed-bound if I'm lucky enough to die at home ( or the equivalent- hopefully it's a long way off yet).

I honestly don't think about going to die because, you know, I'll be dead and unaware of anything

Surely the clever answer is the Halberstadt performance of Cage's As Slow As Possible, given that it will take 639 years to complete. If I can only die once it's finished, that's some going!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_as_Possible#Halberstadt_performance

The Eastenders theme tune as the coffin slides away...

Anyone can fall in love...

Beethoven’s ninth symphony

Hymn of the Cherubim by Tchaikovsky. There is a recording by a USSR state choir that is sublime.

Yann Tiersen I think.

This is a very emotive thread as my DF has very recently died and I played various pieces of music/songs that have been mentioned up thread as he was dying. He wasn’t awake as he was sedated, but I hope he heard the music.

Faerie yes we played my Mum music in the hospice, so I get what you're saying. A bittersweet moment when we put the wrong track on and it was some loud marching band thing, and we just all marched round the room laughing and crying. She would've loved that and laughed too and told us not to be so daft

My track would be... Mozart, Marriage of Figaro, Sull'Aria.

It's the music that Andy played in the Governers office in Shawshank Redemption. But I fell in love with it before that from an advert for an Alfa Romeo. So emotive, a beautiful duet, and brings tears to my eyes whenever I hear it.

Embrace - Wonder

God, so many. Music's the most important thing in my life (besides DP and the wombles). Have to be Roxette's Salvation.

Elgar - Nimrod, its a beautiful piece that just moves through me.

Someone beat me to As Slow As Possible!

But in real life (!), I'd go for Bruckner's 9th Symphony. It's the way it ends with a seeming acceptance on the inevitable. Just awesome.

The whole of days of future passed by the moody blues.

Would have a very hatd time deciding between Yiruma - A River Flows in You and an Indian song called Maula Mere Maula

God Speed by The Patti Smith Band, and

Country by Paul Weller.

Don't know.
But i've got the guitar rift from the beginning of Don't Fear the Reaper stuck in my head now and i know it'll be there for hours!

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