# Songs at your funeral **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 8, 2010, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859 "2010-11-08T02:40:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/41 "2010-11-09T22:34:18Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > It only sounds cool. What really happens is that they overload the boat and not even Thor can move it on account of wrenching his back the previous night during some _Mourning my dead little brother_ sex with Sif, so they have to call a giantess to shove it off, and she drives up in a chariot pulled by huge wolves whose reins are snakes, just to be a bitch, and Thor, embarassed at being shown up by a chick when said giantess succeeds where he failed, murders an innocent dwarf in anger. > > Do you really want that to happen at your funeral? My friends would definitely get a kick out of it. And I sincerely hope at least one Valkyrie shows up to take me to Valhalla anyway, so if Redbeard wants to get his drunken debauchery on, it’s cool with me. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/42 "2010-11-09T22:43:24Z")
It depends on how I die. If it’s by plane crash, then _The Great Gig in the Sky_ will do. If I’m on a ship that sinks, then _The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald_ is just fine. Otherwise, AC/DC’s _Highway to Hell,_ or _Hell’s Bells._ And the Sid Vicious version of _My Way._ Joy Division’s _The Eternal_ or PiL’s _Graveyard_ also seem like good choices. I’ll add Heart’s _Rockin’ Heaven Down_ in case someone attending the funeral keeps insisting that I went to Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![Walmarticus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Walmarticus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walmarticus)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2010, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/43 "2010-11-09T23:00:21Z")
_Monster Mash_ or _Surfin’ Bird_. Or the most gratuitous rap song I can think of. Or polka! …I just like making my friends and family squirm. Imagine an opportunity to make them all uncomfortable at once. ---
**Author:** ![sevenwood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@sevenwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sevenwood)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/44 "2010-11-10T00:04:32Z")
I’m thinking “(Wasting away again in) Marguaritaville”. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/45 "2010-11-10T00:24:13Z")
[“Yakety Sax”.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakity_sax) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/46 "2010-11-10T00:31:05Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > John Milton Cage’s _4’33"_, followed by P.D.Q. Bach’s _Concerto for Horn and Hardart_ and Yankovic’s _Albuquerque_. Change _Albuquerque_ to _Genius in France_. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/47 "2010-11-10T01:05:00Z")
[“Ave Satani”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Satani) (theme from _The Omen.)_ I win the thread. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/48 "2010-11-10T02:06:24Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > [“Ave Satani”](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ave_Satani) (theme from _The Omen.)_ > > I win the thread. Nah, Siegfried took out Wotan, Satan would be no problem. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859/49 "2010-11-10T02:14:10Z")
Oh, this is easy! [Dub dweee, dub dub dub dwee dwow.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUW0lj5CfuQ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-at-your-funeral/559859.md?page=2)