What are your funeral songs?

[RainbowZebraWarrior]

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.

What is a very important funeral?

@ThePrologue it was very important to me.

I’ve recently decided I don’t want a funeral but did speak with my family about music in the past.
Highway to hell was one of mine!
I also chose This Fire Burns by Killswitch Engage and one of my sons suggested Ding Dong the witch is dead from Wizard of Oz 😂😂

Thank you for clarifying.
My condolences

Through The Barricades by Spandau Ballet, I tell my family I want it at my funeral everytime it comes on! Need to give some thought to the others, hopefully I'll have many years to do so! We went out to Baggy Trousers by Madness at the funeral of a friend who died far too young 😪

I'm so sorry for your loss. Xox

The funeral that is etched in my memory is where we came in to the Eastenders theme tune and went out to Who Let The Dogs Out.

Wow. Well if they intended it to be memorable, it certainly worked!

Smack my Bitch up

We played Slipping through my Fingers by ABBA at my granny's funeral. A reminder that she wasn't always an old lady but had been one a girl and woman with hopes and dreams.

My grandad was a proper Yorkshire man. At his funeral we had the theme from Last of the Summer Wine, an instrumental version of on Ilkley Moor Ba Tat played by the RAF band and La Golandrina.
We only had the instrumental version of on Ilkley Moor because my sister was bothered by the lyrics about the worms eating you when you’re dead. I wanted the version with the lyrics, my grandad would’ve found it hilarious!!