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.

Out of the Blue and into the Black by Neil Young and Crazy Horse

That just instantly makes me think of Bullseye: "Stay out of the black and in the red; but there's nothing in this game for two in a bed"

I look to you (Whitney Houston)

I don't care about the playlist but I'm having the physicists' eulogy:

You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed. You want your mother to know that all your energy, every vibration, every Btu of heat, every wave of every particle that was her beloved child remains with her in this world. You want the physicist to tell your weeping father that amid energies of the cosmos, you gave as good as you got.
And at one point you’d hope that the physicist would step down from the pulpit and walk to your brokenhearted spouse there in the pew and tell him that all the photons that ever bounced off your face, all the particles whose paths were interrupted by your smile, by the touch of your hair, hundreds of trillions of particles, have raced off like children, their ways forever changed by you. And as your widow rocks in the arms of a loving family, may the physicist let her know that all the photons that bounced from you were gathered in the particle detectors that are her eyes, that those photons created within her constellations of electromagnetically charged neurons whose energy will go on forever.
And the physicist will remind the congregation of how much of all our energy is given off as heat. There may be a few fanning themselves with their programs as he says it. And he will tell them that the warmth that flowed through you in life is still here, still part of all that we are, even as we who mourn continue the heat of our own lives.
And you’ll want the physicist to explain to those who loved you that they need not have faith; indeed, they should not have faith. Let them know that they can measure, that scientists have measured precisely the conservation of energy and found it accurate, verifiable and consistent across space and time. You can hope your family will examine the evidence and satisfy themselves that the science is sound and that they’ll be comforted to know your energy’s still around. According to the law of the conservation of energy, not a bit of you is gone; you’re just less orderly.
Amen. -Aaron Freeman

Itchycoo Park

Whether I wanted it or not my daughters tell me that they are playing my theme song ( according to them) as I leave the church....The Bitch is back...

Good shout. After Midnight gets better every time I hear it.

Spirit in the sky, although I'm jot religious.

If it were to reflect my life, probably linkin park - in the end. However, I'd rather go with my humour and choose wipeout.

We’re all stardust, baby.

I'll must probably have something like enjoy yourself it's later than you think😆 my family and friends would expect no less and I know their all going to be really upset and crying but I'd like to go out giving them one last laugh to remember me by.

It'll be that or something like Nelly the Elephant😁but I shant tell them about the one funny song that will be kept a secret between me and the undertakers that I arrange my funeral with.

Pointer Sisters - Fire
and Wham - Last christmas

Love that @MrsTerryPratchett

I'd have this.

I think The Beatles Ticket to Ride is appropriate for this back story!

Beautiful!

I'm going to see Skippinish later this year. Can't wait!

@TheMainlySilentFrog you will have an amazing time they are fantastic live.

I want this and a New Orleans jazz procession.

I was nearly killed the other week. A very heavy mirror above my bed fell down and slid behind the bed. Had it landed on me, I wouldn't be here.

Sunny Afternoon - The Kinks

You should never hang mirrors and heavy pictures above beds for this reason.

Lesson learned. It would have seriously injured me but it slid down the wall and behind the headboard.

You do know it's about prostitution?

Like a PP my body is going to be dissected by medical students, so maybe bits of me will go to a few student parties.

Unless I die on a bank holiday, or a weekend, or get too fat, or I'm away more than 2 hours away from a medical school...

So I do have to make alternative arrangements, maybe Smash it Up by the Damned.

Time to say goodbye
Late night grand hotel

And what will you do there ? 😁

My world is on fire.. Jimmy Mack

Sorry to dent the spell, but for those of you who genuinely don't want a funeral, have you considered donating your body to science. I have considered doing so, but then I don't think my children would like that - although they would probably be proud of me if I did decide to do that - but then if I could afford it, I would also really like a woodland burial, especially if I could be put in something like a hessian pod, and then have a tree planted on top of me. I expect that unfortunately, that sort of funeral is way out of my price range...