# Morbid I know \[funeral music\] **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 23, 2008, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840 "2008-02-23T12:05:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MikeG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikeg/32/4329_2.png) [@MikeG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeG)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/21 "2008-02-23T17:25:30Z")
Time to Say Goodbye, by Sarah Brightman (I prefer the solo version to the duet with Andrea Bocelli) ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/22 "2008-02-23T18:31:53Z")
Well, I’m religious, and will have a by the book funeral out of the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. So it will be hymns, _Praise to the Lord the Almighty_, _I Know That My Redeemer Lives_, _Thine is the Glory_, and _A Mighty Fortress is Our God_(Hey, I was raised Lutheran, so having\* that\* one is almost a requirement!). But if there would be secular music I think I would second **Orual** ’s earlier suggestion of _(Don’t Fear) The Reaper_. Maybe for a wake afterwards, although kids these days(and you get off of my lawn!) might not recognize the classics. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/23 "2008-02-23T18:38:52Z")
Seeing as I’m just as happy to be chucked into a ditch as anything else, I’ve not really given any thought to what I’d like played at my funeral. I suppose whatever anyone I’ve left behind wants would be what’s played. However, I always thought that slipping finally out of consciousness would be infinitely cool if done to R.E.M.'s “You Are The Everything.” ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/24 "2008-02-23T18:51:23Z")
At my funeral, I want my surviving relatives to play “China Roses” by Enya, followed by “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)” by Green Day. But, for the love of Og, let them stay away from “Amor Eterno,” which seems to be almost required at the funerals of Latinos I’ve attended. I hate that damn song! ---
**Author:** ![BMax](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bmax/32/4267_2.png) [@BMax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMax)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/25 "2008-02-23T20:01:20Z")
Yes, I’m serious. My parents are religious and they’ll (hopefully) preceed me to death, but everyone else who knows me would smile at it. ---
**Author:** ![Barry\_From\_Eastenders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@Barry\_From\_Eastenders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barry_From_Eastenders)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/26 "2008-02-23T22:06:22Z")
John Rutter’s _Requiem_ ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/27 "2008-02-23T22:13:35Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] with 24 hours of death [/QUOTE] What did you have in mind, gladiatorial combat? Now that’s old school. As far as tunes, I’d like to see a funeral service incorporate [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7CclVneVpw). ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/28 "2008-02-23T23:41:23Z")
[Australia by The Shins](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHTSxw6zN1E). What it lacks in sombre, it makes up for in how much it’s meant to me over the last year or so. Generally, the sombre supplies itself at funerals anyway. I’m so serious about this that I’ve told a couple of people and am thinking of writing a note and slipping it in with my will. It’s not that I intend to die anytime soon, but it’s one of those things that’s a little difficult to arrange after the fact should the unexpected happen. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/29 "2008-02-24T00:01:03Z")
Thanks Moderators. ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/30 "2008-02-24T00:24:25Z")
[If I Ever Leave This World Alive](http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/floggingmolly/ifieverleavethisworldalive.html) by Flogging Molly. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/31 "2008-02-24T01:39:07Z")
[QUOTE=Barry From Eastenders] John Rutter’s _Requiem_ [/QUOTE] Oooh! Oooh! Me, too! I have a thing for Requiems. I guess it’s not realistic for me to expect everyone to sit through the ENTIRE Rutter, Brahms, Fauré and Mozart Requiems. So if I have to limit it to one piece from each, it would be: “The Lord is My Shepherd” from Rutter “Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie Gras” from Brahms “Libera me” from Fauré “Lachrymosa” from Mozart I also want “The Long Day Closes” by Arthur Sullivan. In 2007, I had the opportunity to sing a really wonderful American folk hymn arranged by Alice Parker for the Robert Shaw Chorale, “Hark, I Hear the Harps Eternal.” I’d like that, too, please. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/32 "2008-02-24T01:41:41Z")
_Why Me?_ Johnny Cash on the American IV CD. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/33 "2008-02-24T02:04:49Z")
On Funerals–Richard M Nixon–suggestions for: > [@](#): > > If the right people had been in charge of Nixon’s funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin. > > ``` > *Dr Hunter S, Thompson, Rolling Stone (June 1994) > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/34 "2008-02-24T02:08:29Z")
_Kathy’s Song_, Simon and Garfunkel. And Schubert’s _Ave Maria_. My sister sang it at our grandmother’s funeral-and you could hear her voice trembling. She said she’ll never do another family funeral again. (Hey, want me to ask my dad about any odd music he gets at funerals?) ---
**Author:** ![j666](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de0a6/32.png) [@j666](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j666)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/35 "2008-02-24T02:42:44Z")
[QUOTE=Savannah] What? Amazing Grace, played on the bagpipes, is poignant and moving. This is not a whoosh. [/QUOTE] I agree, but bagpipes were designed to strike terror in the hearts of your enemy. I wonder if _The Mutineer_ could be played on the bagpipes? ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/36 "2008-02-24T03:09:35Z")
[QUOTE=Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor] None. I opt for quick cremation, with 24 hours of death, no service. [/QUOTE] So just [24](http://www.lyrics007.com/Jem%20Lyrics/24%20Lyrics.html) by [Jem](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwpMi734nt4)? 😃 I think I’d like “[O Death](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpxuh090IUc)” by Ralph Stanley. My snarkiness wants “You Make Me Wanna Die” by Soft [mp3 here](http://instrumentalanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/02/this-weeks-mix_15.html) or “People Who Died” by the Jim Carroll band [mp3 here](http://armagideontime.blogspot.com/2008/01/nothing-will-ever-be-same-again.html), but I think I’ll be able to resist. Though I probably wouldn’t mind terribly if someone else (a male someone else, of course) requested “[I’m Stretched On Your Grave](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0lyx9K307c)” by Sinéad O’Connor. You know, unless it’s a stalker. ---
**Author:** ![Bernard\_Marx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4491bb/32.png) [@Bernard\_Marx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bernard_Marx)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/37 "2008-02-24T03:49:00Z")
_Benedictus_ from Mozart’s _Coronation Mass_ . It’s not really funeral music but hey, it’s “classical” and sounds suitably sombre. [bagpipe nerd] or _El Alamein_ played as a lament [/bn] ---
**Author:** ![maggenpye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@maggenpye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/maggenpye)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/38 "2008-02-24T06:03:14Z")
REM’s _Everybody Hurts_. I attended a funeral where they played _Don’t Worry, Be Happy_, I may stick that on the wish list just to mess with people’s heads. I knew the guy quite well and could laugh without guilt - it was what he wanted. ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/39 "2008-02-24T06:37:00Z")
“Anywhere I Lay My Head” by Tom Waits. I don’t know if I’d actually do that though. I just went to my first funeral a few weeks ago and we all sang Amazing Grace. It was comforting. That might be nice at my funeral, and maybe even with bagpipes. ---
**Author:** ![theprimeminister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d26b3c/32.png) [@theprimeminister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/theprimeminister)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-i-know-funeral-music/438840/40 "2008-02-24T06:58:43Z")
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