Siegfried’s Funeral March.
If anyone plays McLachlan’s I Will Remember You at my funeral, I swear I’m going to raise an army in Hell to attack the world of the living.
Not that it’s a BAD song…it wasn’t, the for the first three times it was used at a funeral. In the 90s.
I still need valium when I remember Mandy and *Can’t Smile Without You * at the funeral.
These threads come up every so often and I think of the usuals; Another One Bites the Dust, Walking on Sunshine (played on bagpipes), Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, etc., and then I stop to think: No one in my family has ever had a funeral, which means I probably won’t either. We tend to cremate our dead and then stop talking about them.
So: Are all of you just picking hypothetical songs, or are you really going to have a funeral, and is it really that common to have music at a funeral?
On a serious note, I’d like Ripple by the Grateful Dead. In a more humorous vein, I think Bach’s Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor would be fabulous to play as the mourners were filing in.
Of course, when it comes down to it, I’ll be dead and I won’t care.
Being cremated is still having a funeral.
Definition of funeral: the ceremonial burial or cremation of a dead person.
And it is usual AFAIK to have music at a cremation.
My grandmother and dad were cremated but we still had full-fledged funerals for them beforehand, so I think that’s probably what I will do too.
My preference for a funeral song has always been “Amazing Grace”. Even though it seems cliche, I do truly like it and find it moving.
I figure funerals are more for the living than the dead. So, even though I hate most of the songs on that list, if whoever is left to mourn me after I’m gone feels better after hearing an annoying song like “Wind Beneath My Wings”, well, good for them I guess. At least one nice thing about being dead is that I won’t have to listen it. 
A friend of mine is serious about having Peggy Lee’s “Is That All There Is?” played at his funeral.
I have decided to be like Harry Houdini and I will have foolproof, absolute test to see if there is an afterlife.
At my funeral play the following songs.
Seasons in the Sun
You Light up my Life
UmmBop
The Pina Colada song
Turn the Page
If the power cord to the boom box does not mysteriously pull from the wall, there is no afterlife.
What about the “Alfred Hitchcock Show” theme music? It’s entitled “Funeral March for A Marionette” I believe it’s by Saint-Saens.
Has anyone seen the movie “Big Eden”, at the funeral Stephen Foster’s “Linger in Blissful Repose”, was sung, I believe by Louise Fletcher’s character. A very haunting melody, with absolutely soul-rending lyrics. There won’t be a dry eye in the house.
Uhhh, not if no one is there, and there is no manner of ceremony whatsoever.
I turned on CBC radio in the middle of a story yesterday, and they were playing recordings of messages callers had left. It seems that Seasons In the Sun is the song most callers would not want played at their funerals.
So, you just toss Uncle Joe onto the bonfire, or something?
And that’s Uncle Joe
He’s a-roastin’ kinda slow
At the junction…
My grandpa died at home, my grandma called someone to come get him, and they creamated him, AFAIK, at the local morgue.
Madonna-The power of goodbye
John Lennon- Imagine
Not because it rejects the idea of an afterlife, but because the song *trancends * it.
My best friends mother died of cancer a couple of years ago. She specifically asked that Turn the Page be played, and it was.
When a very young friend was killed in a car wreck, the propped his electric guitar up by the casket and played Wish You Were Here, now that one brought on the waterworks. 
I just remembered another song I want at my funeral: “Do You Realize?” by the Flaming Lips.
Mr. Lucky says that if he should die before I do, he wants me to play at his funeral “The Floods of Florence” by Phil Ochs and “He Loved Him Madly” by Miles Davis. It’s about his admiration for John Coltrane. It’s also very long.