# What music do you want to die to? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [June 4, 2025, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204 "2025-06-04T20:44:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/61 "2025-06-06T00:54:18Z")
I was at that show too! In fact I was at Jerrys last 6 shows, should have been 7 shows but July 3rd at Deer Creek got cancelled because of the dawn fence jumpers. The last two songs Jerry ever played on stage were Black Muddy River and Box of Rain…hmmmm. As to the OP, my taste is pretty eclectic so just play some stuff I like and I’ll be fine. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/62 "2025-06-06T02:53:15Z")
How about the classic “Going Home”? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/7jvrSkaF-ks/maxresdefault.jpg "Going Home") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jvrSkaF-ks) ---
**Author:** ![scudsucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scudsucker/32/14101_2.png) [@scudsucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scudsucker)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/63 "2025-06-06T07:37:07Z")
I’m torn between Nick Cave’s “Death is not the end” and Fauré’s Requiem. Probably the latter, it lasts longer. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/64 "2025-06-06T08:29:24Z")
One more I like: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/ZnAR2WKDYHU/maxresdefault.jpg "VOCES8: The Long Day Closes by Arthur Sullivan") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAR2WKDYHU) > **[The Long Day Closes | Song Texts, Lyrics & Translations | Oxford Song](https://oxfordsong.org/song/the-long-day-closes)** ---
**Author:** ![Railer13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/railer13/32/9742_2.png) [@Railer13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Railer13)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/65 "2025-06-06T12:15:25Z")
Surprised nobody’s mentioned this one yet. A toe-tapper from Blood, Sweat, & Tears Link [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLXA7s55dl4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLXA7s55dl4) If it’s peace you find in dying And if dying time is near Just bundle up my coffin cause It’s cold way down there I hear that’s it’s cold way down there Yeah, crazy cold way down there ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/66 "2025-06-06T12:17:11Z")
I think that I’d like to listen to something I hate, so that I wouldn’t mind getting off this planet. Anything by Led Zepplin would do it. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/67 "2025-06-06T13:49:18Z")
I got just the ticket: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/scpqae3P7Dg/maxresdefault.jpg "In My Time of Dying (1990 Remaster)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scpqae3P7Dg) ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/68 "2025-06-06T13:54:11Z")
Are you trying to kill me? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/69 "2025-06-06T13:56:08Z")
Plus, it’s _ **ELEVEN MINUTES LONG!** _ Bwah-ha-ha-ha! ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/70 "2025-06-06T21:13:46Z")
Techo/Rave. Makes me wanna kill myself. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/71 "2025-06-06T21:18:29Z")
Bob Dylan’s version is actually pretty good. ---
**Author:** ![rippingtons\_fan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rippingtons_fan/32/11767_2.png) [@rippingtons\_fan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rippingtons_fan)\ **Post date:** [June 6, 2025, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/72 "2025-06-06T21:42:50Z")
“Lady of the Moon” by the group 2002. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/73 "2025-06-07T01:09:51Z")
Yeah I am not able to get to which pieces because I can’t even decide what mood? Peaceful mindful spiritual calm? Die laughing? Let some comic claim that he slew me? Or a good angry song, channeling the sage advice of > Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. I think the last. Maybe something punk? Or maybe Phil Collin’s “I don’t care anymore” Blasting loudly. ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/74 "2025-06-07T01:11:04Z")
Gotta hand it to them, that’s one of the greatest Dylan covers I’ve ever heard. Speaking of whom: Nobody has mentioned “Knocking on Heaven’s Door” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/yjR7_U2u3sM/maxresdefault.jpg "Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid Knocking on heavens door") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjR7_U2u3sM&t=120) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/75 "2025-06-07T02:23:56Z")
I’m not a big Dylan fan, but that _is_ a socko version, if nothing else, due to its brevity. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2025, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204/76 "2025-06-07T03:29:17Z")
I’d like that one surround by my kids and maybe by then grandkids as the chorus is > And when I die, and when I’m gone > There’ll be, one child born in this world > To carry on, to carry on, yeah yeah [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-music-do-you-want-to-die-to/1019204.md?page=3)