# Any special requests for your funeral? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 28, 2009, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-special-requests-for-your-funeral/508077 "2009-08-28T20:25:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-special-requests-for-your-funeral/508077/81 "2009-09-18T17:27:47Z")
I want them to take out whatever parts are useful, then cremate the rest without embalming. Bury the ashes in the back yard, next to the cats. I’d be OK with them just burying the body, but I doubt they could get away with that in our suburban neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [September 18, 2009, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-special-requests-for-your-funeral/508077/82 "2009-09-18T19:04:17Z")
I have this idea of my musical friends playing “Solsbury Hill” at my funeral, beginning with piano, reed instrument, and voice, then adding guitars, percussion, and such in succeeding verses. I doubt anyone will do it, though. In the best of all possible worlds, I’d have a eulogy like [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CkxCHybM6Ek), but I know that’s probably not realistic. Oh, yes, and body donated to science. That’s one thing that Mary Roach’s \*Stiff \*impressed on me. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2009, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-special-requests-for-your-funeral/508077/83 "2009-09-19T01:22:21Z")
Eternal Reef Ball. At my party/Memorial service I want: No suits allowed. Beer (good beer, no junk). If you have a motorcycle, ride it to the party! And I have some music requests “Watermelon in Easter hay” by Frank Zappa, “Red” by King Crimson and a lot of early Brian Eno. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2009, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-special-requests-for-your-funeral/508077/84 "2009-09-19T01:40:53Z")
I’ve never thought about it actually. I’ll try to think of something clever. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-special-requests-for-your-funeral/508077/85 "2009-09-19T01:52:05Z")
I would love to be plasticized like the “Bodies” exhibit, and donate my body to science, but if any of my organs are usable at my death, I want as many people as possible to benefit. If I’m not a good candidate for either for whatever reason, I definitely want to be cremated, but I’ll leave it up to my loved ones that are left to decide what to do with them. It’s their grief, not mine. My Granny’s sister recently passed away and left instructions for cremation and absolutely no service whatsoever and my Granny was heartbroken at not being able to have a funeral for her. The services are for the living. I don’t really care one way or another about the service or even if there is one. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-special-requests-for-your-funeral/508077/86 "2009-09-19T03:56:44Z")
Organ donor, the scraps donated to medical science. As for the memorial service, I’m torn - I really dig New Orleans jazz funerals, and the idea of a wake. But I’m also enough of an egomaniac that the idea of a funeral at the National Cathedral, with a chorus performing Mozart’s Requiem Mass, has a certain appeal. 🙂 I mean, if I manage to do anything to merit that kind of sendoff … [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-special-requests-for-your-funeral/508077.md?page=4)