So you're dead

[Balloonhearts]

So you're sadly dead, you got hit by a bus, which was unfortunately on time for a fucking change, what song would you want at your funeral?

I think I'd want Little Wonders by Rob Thomas. I like to think I'd have something really funny and inappropriate but realistically some of my family would not find that funny.

"Long way from Clare to here"- my sister died unexpectedly some months ago in her fifties...
I'm my life by the Beatles
Why does it always rain on me by Travis. Cos I'm a sarcastic sourpouss 😂😂🤣

Another here for Flogging Molly's If I Ever Leave This World Alive.

Never Mind the Strangers by the Saw Doctors.

Or Another Ones Bits The Dust - Queen

Dead Now by Frightened Rabbit. My favourite lyric “I’m dead now can you hear the relief as life’s belligerent symphonies finally cease” 👌

I'm too sexy for my shirt shroud

I didnt realise that, that's lovely I have some family who have chosen it

See I thought I felt like this but then I had two very close people die within a year.The funerals have been absolutely massive events in my life and I think about them at least weekly. I’d written them off as set piece social obligation type affairs but, but ….

I remember the event and all the feelings, conversations and emotions I felt during them very keenly. I even remember what I ate and drunk at the reception thing afterward, and the detail of every conversation I had.

I actually don’t know why people do this stuff BUT it is an almost universal human cultural practice to have rituals around death so I think it is probably important to mark people’s passing in some collective way like a funeral.

Like a stone - one of my favourite songs ❤️

My songs would be:

1st song - Living in a Box by Living in a Box

2nd song - Cold as Ice by foreigner

3rd song - Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley

Anti hero by Taylor swift
And then as the crem curtains close I want the theme tune to Larry David's curb your enthusiasm

I want to come into Ave Maria, as the curtains close I want Somewhere over the Rainbow or Fields of Gold then I want to have everyone leaving and dancing to Ain't no Stopping Us now. The reflection song will be As (the Stevie Wonder version)

Goodbye Horses & Warm and Tender Love

Last Goodbye … oh yes, 1000x agree. Songwriting genius.

I don't want a funeral. Waste of money. My parents are gone and I'm single, so there's no point spending my niblings' inheritance and inconveniencing everyone to take time out to come. I think it's more important to spend time with people while they're still alive.

I used to say I wanted my ashes scattered over Hungerford Bridge to the tune of 'Waterloo Sunset'. Now I am 75 I really don't care what happens to my remains.

Copacabana by Barry Manilow and All I Wanna Do by Sheryl Crow

There'll be no funeral for either me or my husband. We'll both be carted off to the crematorium and burned. No wake, no funeral, nothing.

The Mii Channel music - from the Wii.

Dave Edmunds' It Doesn't Really Matter
Bette Midler's version of This Ole House

In those circumstances it HAS to be This Charming Man

Off the top of my head I’m going to say Skye - Runrig, with Welcome to the Black Parade - MCR, Welcome to My Life - Simple Plan, and just for fun Spirit In The Sky - Gareth Gates with The Kumars (I just really enjoy that song 🤣)

not that I think there will be anyone to go to my funeral if I decide to live an average human life span but you never know 🤣

The Garden by Rush

If I had died when I was younger would have chosen Forever Young by Bob Dylan or a cover version. Now Fields of Gold.
I also would like a New Orleans Jazz Band (as in James Bond film Live & Let Die opening sequence) - but suspect my DH would ignore that wish!

Hips Don't Lie by Shakira

I won't be having a funeral, but the thought of people trying not to laugh while Sinatra's The Lady is a Tramp was playing makes me happy😇