# Morbid: What do you want to have played on your funeral? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 3, 2001, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067 "2001-07-03T09:05:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/21 "2001-07-04T00:41:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*I’m going to be cremated, too (right after Lupe Velez and I finish flushing Ike). \*\* Hah! I got ten bucks here sez YOU die first… ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/22 "2001-07-04T00:42:46Z")
**Sin Wagon** by the Dixie Chicks. 😃 \*When it’s my turn to march up to glory I’m gonna have one hell of a story That’s if He forgives me Oh Lord please forgive me Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition I need a little bit more of that sweet salvation They may take me with my feet a-draggin’ But I’ll fly away on a sin wagon\* ---
**Author:** ![socpro69](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@socpro69](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/socpro69)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/23 "2001-07-04T00:58:46Z")
**Dr.Ring-Ding & the Senior Allstars** doing **Bellevue Asylum**. Haunting and beautiful, written as a memorial to **Don Drummond**. ---
**Author:** ![jane\_says](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/47e85d/32.png) [@jane\_says](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jane_says)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/24 "2001-07-04T01:05:43Z")
If the transplanted African Catholic nun who sang “Ave Maria” at my husband’s grandmother’s funeral isn’t dead when I die, I’d like her to do the honors for me too. If that’s not possible, I want the classic 80’s hair ballad “Ballad of Jane” by L.A. Guns. ---
**Author:** ![Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Home_of_the_Braves)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/25 "2001-07-04T02:15:02Z")
I don’t like to think about my funeral, but my Mom has already informed me she wants me to sing “In The Garden” when she goes. No pressure, right? I can’t listen or sing that hymn now without crying. Mom can’t get thru “The Old Rugged Cross” without letting go with waterworks, 'cause that’s the song she sang at her Dad’s funeral. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/26 "2001-07-04T02:31:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Abe Babe \* > \*\*Of course, the piper wouldn’t be allowed to wear anything under the kilt. \*\* Not even shoes? I would like to have “People Get Ready” by Jeff Beck played. As well as Ave Maria (Shubert’s version) and some great ol’ gospel. ---
**Author:** ![KarlGauss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/karlgauss/32/3713_2.png) [@KarlGauss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KarlGauss)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/27 "2001-07-04T02:52:53Z")
**My Way** , but sung by _Sid Vicious_. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/28 "2001-07-04T03:45:43Z")
I’m with **racinchikki**. _Sin Wagon_. Or _Hell’s Bell’s_. ---
**Author:** ![hardygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a3d4f5/32.png) [@hardygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hardygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/29 "2001-07-04T03:51:07Z")
\*\* Oh Me \*\* from the Nirvana Unplugged in New York album. ---
**Author:** ![Scotticher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Scotticher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scotticher)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/30 "2001-07-04T04:12:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by BunnyGirl \* > \*\*If there needed to be a moment of silence at the beginning, I’d have the hymn, _Great Is Thy Faithfulness_ \*\* We sang that at my beloved mother’s funeral. Also Amazing Grace. ---
**Author:** ![exchicagoan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/0ea827/32.png) [@exchicagoan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exchicagoan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/31 "2001-07-04T04:51:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Saint Zero \* > \*\*BunnyGirl: > My friend had “Amazing Grace” on the bagpipes played at his. I’m tempted to do the same. > > \*\* Is also my choice. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/32 "2001-07-04T05:05:45Z")
Another anti-funeral proponent here, but if I had to, I guess I’ll stick with the OP’s R.E.M. motif and go with “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/33 "2001-07-04T05:14:17Z")
my post in a prior thread on this subject: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=824334#post824334](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?postid=824334#post824334) ---
**Author:** ![seriousart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@seriousart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seriousart)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/34 "2001-07-04T05:17:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by rjung \* > **Depending on my mood, either Monty Python’s _Always Look on the Bright Side of Life_ (complete with the often-edited-out “Life’s a piece of s–t” verse)** I’m gonna have to second this one. Oddly enough, I just heard this song for the first time in a long while today, and honestly thought about this very subject. Low and behold, this topic appears… Hopefully, this isn’t some weird preminition thingy. Uh, hi, fate? Brian here. Ixnay on the eathday for a while, ok? Don’t wanna be hearing (or my friends and family more accurately) that song anytime soon. We cool? Cool. ---
**Author:** ![DarkPrince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce73a5/32.png) [@DarkPrince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkPrince)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/35 "2001-07-04T06:13:26Z")
For me, I would rather my friends get drunk and throw my body to the lions at the zoo during children’s hour than sit around in a church crying about me. That would be some real mourning. But for music I’ve gotta go with Opengrave. _A Dead Poem_ by Rotting Christ, _Ode to the End_ by Sentenced, or _Shining Kingdom_ by Samael would be perfect IMO. Nothing like some good death metal to lighten up the spirits, eh? ---
**Author:** ![Feynn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecb155/32.png) [@Feynn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feynn)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/36 "2001-07-04T07:26:38Z")
If there isn’t a piper playing at my funeral I’ll come back to haunt the living that neglected this final wish. I want blues played at my wake. Hooker, Vaughn, and Johnson. Let’s have the dead play for the dead… but that doesn’t mean you have to play music that you can’t dance to. ---
**Author:** ![ladyfoxfyre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ad7895/32.png) [@ladyfoxfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ladyfoxfyre)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/37 "2001-07-04T07:29:41Z")
Ohhh…you wanna mess with people’s minds? I want **You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet** played at mine! That would be great! ---
**Author:** ![Aghris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecccb3/32.png) [@Aghris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aghris)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/38 "2001-07-04T07:31:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by woodstockbirdybird \* > \*\*Another anti-funeral proponent here, but if I had to, I guess I’ll stick with the OP’s R.E.M. motif and go with “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)”. \*\* Ooh, that’s a good one too… Maybe if I feel a bit more upbeat right before I die, which I doubt. Can’t think of a greater bummer than to find out you have only a few seconds more to live… 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bagkitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7ab992/32.png) [@bagkitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bagkitty)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/39 "2001-07-04T10:47:19Z")
I really like Tranquilis’ idea of being tree fertilizer. And why the hell should I have to provide entertaining music? I’m hoping to provide lawn darts or Twister and let the mourners amuse themselves. ---
**Author:** ![CanadianSue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/71e660/32.png) [@CanadianSue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanadianSue)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2001, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067/40 "2001-07-04T16:17:40Z")
I want to be taken to a taxidermist to be stuffed and made into some great piece of art. I won’t be having a funeral, but at my party (memorial), I think The Bitch is Back would be more than appropriate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/morbid-what-do-you-want-to-have-played-on-your-funeral/71067.md?page=3)