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.

Half the world away Oasis and I want Lord of the Dance

I was always under the impression funerals were for the loved ones benefit, rather than the deceased.i hope my family members have them when they pass.

I'd like Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles

Read the thread, at least two of us are doing that.

Mine will be Superstar by Love Inc. it will be an ode to my son. I don't think I I'm having a funeral though. Both of my parents opted for direct cremation and I was against it at the time but I get it now.

Mine is also here comes the sun by the Beatles. I want my family to have my funeral and then move on with their lives, I think that song is a nice way to symbolise that.

This was my debate with my terminally ill dad. He understood my pov but ultimately, he couldn't control the illness ravaging his body, but he could control this. Privately he said he didn't want distant family members who he didn't care for attending, drinking tea and eating sandwiches and putting themselves front and centre.

What helped enormously was the amount of people who admired him and said they respected his choice, and thought it fitting of him as he was always his own man and true to himself.

All the time in the worldLouis Armstrong. and Time to say goodbye - Andrei Bochelli

Mine is Titanium by Sia.

Every Grain of Sand, Bob Dylan
Closing Time, Leonard Cohen

I had a big think about this overnight 😂
I actually had a Spotify list of my funeral songs but when I had a relisten they were all much too somber 🥲

My new idea is Kirsty McCall's Days, and I'm toying with Divine Comedy's Charmed Life or Tonight We Fly.
And also Neil Hannon singing Dear Lord and Father of Mankind. Fuck it, let them weep 😂😂

Although I actually don't want a funeral either.

I’m having wherever you will go by the calling and the show must go on by Queen

You’re Dead - Norma Tanega.

The Day Thou Gavest Lord Has Ended
Thine be the Glory

Just the classics! I do like the baby City Rollers montage at the end of Love Actually, though.

I love this song but…

hearing this would give certain members of my family the rage 😡 since they’re ‘blues.’

I don’t give a shit about the foottie so I’d have a good laugh while singing along in my new ghostly voice.

On the way out I’d have ‘I’m walking on sunshine’
and encourage everyone to have good dance before heading to the pub to raise a pint or two.

Oh lovely choices. I'd have 'Comfort Ye' leading into a nice rousing 'Every Valley' with instructions to everyone to attempt to sing along...

@Moier I'm so sorry x

It may not surprise you that I would want a good Welsh hymn, Guide Me o Thou Great Redeemer.

we had this at my mums funeral, she lived the moody blues and this is such a beautiful song. I can’t listen to it without crying now though.

Another One Bites The Dust by Queen.

Or Wanted Dead or Alive.

Something inappropriate that'll make people laugh.

I was about to say the same!

@Keepkondoing

See this is the problem, after experiencing both of my parents' funerals, I want to be careful not to choose music that my loved ones are likely to encounter in their everyday lives.

She'll get high......

Farewell, Farewell - Fairport Convention
Shiny Happy People - REM

My dad had a direct cremation and we were told we couldn't choose the music but that something classical would be played.

I want the Rainbow Connection if I do have one

Wow
kate bush

DD already knows all this:

I want Mozart's requiem mass as I come in.

I then want Rabbithole by Camelphat as the crem curtains close and my coffin goes down...perfectly timed with the line in the song

"We're going in now, deeper down and round we go"

And my wake will have my 40th birthday party Spotify playlist of 90s tunes in the background.