# What should they play at your funeral? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 15, 2019, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572 "2019-02-15T04:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bookkeeper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bookkeeper/32/281_2.png) [@Bookkeeper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bookkeeper)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/41 "2019-02-15T20:26:16Z")
[The Song Will Remain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mw6T8RP3Ed4) ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/42 "2019-02-15T21:34:22Z")
I don’t particularly want a funeral, but if my survivors insist on putting people through that the I’m going to insist they play the full version of “Alice’s Restaurant” by Arlo Guthrie and the live version of Skynyrd’s “Freebird”. Back-to-back. I figure if they’re going to be silly enough to make people come, I’m going to be silly enough to make them sit through 30+ minutes of continuous music! ---
**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:** [February 15, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/43 "2019-02-15T21:53:25Z")
[_Other People’s Children_](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgofeqoTozA&list=PLL_oZsUp2WA4Q8OaUhLBrcMUGO8Axk36Z&index=16&t=0s) by Meg Davis. ---
**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:** [February 15, 2019, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/44 "2019-02-15T21:59:39Z")
“In My Time of Dyin’.” I need to record it so they can play my version. ---
**Author:** ![Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@Barkis\_is\_Willin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Barkis_is_Willin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/45 "2019-02-15T22:10:13Z")
What should they play at my funeral? They should paly catch. Seriously, if you come to my funeral bring your glove because there will be baseballs and you will be expected to play catch. As for music, Take Me Out to the Ballgame, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/46 "2019-02-15T22:11:44Z")
Not that I’m going to be the star of a funeral, but I’d want Motorhead’s [“Killed By Death”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUTvYqQvpYg). Imagining the eulogy: _“He was a romantic adventurer, and a reptile too.”_ ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2019, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/47 "2019-02-15T23:55:35Z")
[The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A) Hey, I’m dead. Y’all SHOULD be depressed at my funeral! ---
**Author:** ![janis\_and\_c0](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/janis_and_c0/32/21_2.png) [@janis\_and\_c0](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/janis_and_c0)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/48 "2019-02-16T00:21:24Z")
Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead. No, really. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/49 "2019-02-16T00:28:04Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Not that I’m going to be the star of a funeral… So…you’re immortal? ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2019, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572/50 "2019-02-16T05:35:39Z")
Beer pong. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-they-play-at-your-funeral/829572.md?page=2)