Dont really care , but iv got several their albums

 

I actually want a lot of music played at my funeral, and this to be my final exit moment song:

 

Its still That Was The Day & You'll Never Walk Alone for me. But now joined by Do You Realize by The Flaming Lips and Asleep In The Desert by ZZ Top

Hopefully not for a long while yet, but MrsD may have something to say about that

 

What a morbid bunch of b@stards

 

I get where you're coming from, with that. Once you're dead, doesn't matter what music they play for you. It's what they play when you're alive that counts.

Other than that.............

 

Also, I think if I wish a certain good song to be played at my final departure, ok, I'm trying to tell the world what it has been like for me as living all those years or at dying, or what it must be like for me, now, in a dead state.

But the thing is, I may end up making a perfectly good and innocent song quite sad for the people from my little world. I say that because music is very powerful thing. Even older Dementia patients sometimes start to remember a lot via a song they used to hum as a baby.

Also, I'm not saying that my dying would necessarily make those people terribly sad or anything, it could simply be tomorrow's chip paper and quite liberating for them, too! But at the end of the day, whoever dies, as long as they weren't too bad of a person in their life, can make their relatives/well wishers 'somewhat' sad, if not much. Because you don't see that dead person ever again. Not in their body, anyway.

To cut it short, it can be quite selfish and posthumously controlling to ruin a perfectly good song by ensuring that it's played in your funeral, because people start to connect it to your sad demise. That's one way of looking at the phenomenon.

We can try to find $h1t songs for our funeral. Then we will know that they won't listen to a $h!tty song with their choice again, anyway. So it really doesn't matter if becomes relational to our sad demise.

Still, I don't know. I'm in two minds. I think I'll just ask my loved ones to let me go in a quiet, without any music and any further drama. Then again, whenever they try to have some peaceful and quiet moments in future, it may work as a trigger for my sad demise memories. You can't win, can you? In that case, I'll just ask them to see me off the way they like. End of.

 

Also, since this thread began in the end of 2007, at least ten (perhaps more) internet personas who posted on this thread have disappeared. What happened to them, do we know?


PS: Only lightening up a bit with this post. Please do not bite me.

 

To make a final nuisance of yourself your loved ones could insist on Pink Floyd's 'Echoes' being played from start to finish before the curtains part and you're launched into the flames

 

I know an extrovert who wants this played at that very moment:

 

If you don't want something modern, how about this, which was specifically written for a funeral, from 1635:


I always think Schutz is unsurpassed, but then I'll hear some Bach and realise he was even better.

 

I bet that cost him a few quid ..!

 

Fade to black by Metallica

 

This playing when my coffin is bring lowered or nuked........

 

Do you know, I've never thought about that! It was written for a minor German aristocrat called Heinrich Posthumus Reuß, but knowing how lowly was the status of most musicians at the time, he probably got a very good deal.

Schutz himself lived to 87, an almost unheard of age in those times, and is nowadays considered the greatest German composer of the 17th Century.

 

Suitable for cremations or the morning after a vindaloo.

 

Gotta be Comfortably Numb. My Dad wanted that as a laugh but decided to change it as only his mates would get the reference. Didn't want the rest of the family thinking I was taking the **** lol