# What song do you want played at your funeral? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 19, 2000, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548 "2000-10-19T16:42:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sakura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sakura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakura)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/41 "2000-10-20T01:42:45Z")
I don’t want a eulogy. I want a slide show of my life with “Time of Your Life” by Greenday in the background. And as I’m being lowered into the ground, there’s this gorgeously slow song at the end of a Celtic/New Age music tape I have titled “Deep Peace” I think I would like being played. Oh! and to finally get the point across to the guy whom I’ve pined over for five years and doesn’t even know it, I would put “A Little Fall of Rain” from _Les Miserables_ somewhere in there. Even though he wouldn’t even _get **IT.** _ Probably wouldn’t even be there. Sorry. I’m turning bitter. I’m done now. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/42 "2000-10-20T01:46:32Z")
Sakura, a few words of short advice: act on your feelings. Life is too damn short, dear. What’s the worst that could happen? ---
**Author:** ![Sakura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Sakura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakura)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/43 "2000-10-20T01:56:14Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*Sakura, a few words of short advice: act on your feelings. Life is too damn short, dear. What’s the worst that could happen? \*\* Besides me overreacting over a rather crummy day? Not much. Thank you, Coldfire, for bringing it into perspective by wacking me in the face with words. (It’s not as bad as you’d think it would be :)) ---
**Author:** ![Jackamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Jackamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackamus)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/44 "2000-10-20T02:26:23Z")
“Imagine” by John Lennon. No preachin’ either. ---
**Author:** ![Renton\_lvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Renton\_lvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renton_lvr)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/45 "2000-10-20T03:54:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGauss \* > \*\* > For me, there’s no doubt - " **My Way** …but only by the _ **Sex Pistols** _ \*\* There is no version of My Way by the Pistols. Sid sang it when he went solo. It’s a damned good choice though. ---
**Author:** ![jabe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/db5fbb/32.png) [@jabe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabe)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/46 "2000-10-20T03:55:47Z")
I would have either “You Enjoy Myself” (boy, man, god, shit) by Phish or “Down and Out in New York City” by James Brown. ---
**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:** [October 20, 2000, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/47 "2000-10-20T04:07:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Renton\_lvr \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by KarlGauss \* > > \*\* > > For me, there’s no doubt - " **My Way** …but only by the _ **Sex Pistols** _ \*\* > > There is no version of My Way by the Pistols. Sid sang it when he went solo. It’s a damned good choice though. > > \*\* It’s on the “ **Great Rock and Roll Swindle** ”, no? ---
**Author:** ![dragonlady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f8ce5/32.png) [@dragonlady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragonlady)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/48 "2000-10-20T04:23:39Z")
Spirit in the Sky The Dance ---
**Author:** ![SwimmingRiddles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@SwimmingRiddles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SwimmingRiddles)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/49 "2000-10-20T04:43:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JustAnotherGuy \* > \*\*“Your an asshole” by Dennis Miller \*\* you’re not thinking of “Asshole” by Dennis Leary, are you? If not, too many bitter Dennises cause confusion. For my funeral, please make sure “Shooting Star” by Bob Dylan is played. “I see a shooting star tonight/and I thought of you./You’re slipping into another world/A world I never knew…” ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/50 "2000-10-20T04:53:30Z")
A little known Judas Priest cut named, appropriately enough, “Epitaph,” from the amazing _Sad Wings Of Destiny_ opus. * * * Yer pal, [Satan](http://www.members.tripod.com/jmspoofe/sdmb/satan.jpg) \*TIME ELAPSED SINCE I QUIT SMOKING: Six months, one week, four days, 2 hours, 54 minutes and 14 seconds. 7764 cigarettes not smoked, saving $970.60. Extra time with Drain Bead: 3 weeks, 5 days, 23 hours, 0 minutes. **I slept with a REPUBLICAN moderator!** \* ---
**Author:** ![Renton\_lvr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7feea3/32.png) [@Renton\_lvr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renton_lvr)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/51 "2000-10-20T05:09:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KarlGauss \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Renton\_lvr \* > > \*\* > > > > > [@](#): > > > > > > \*Originally posted by KarlGauss \* > > > \*\* > > > For me, there’s no doubt - " **My Way** …but only by the _ **Sex Pistols** _ \*\* > > > > There is no version of My Way by the Pistols. Sid sang it when he went solo. It’s a damned good choice though. > > > > \*\* > > It’s on the “ **Great Rock and Roll Swindle** ”, no? \*\* Sure it is, but it was still Sid who recorded it while he was solo. > [@](#): > > Sid Vicious recorded a version of “My Way” and performed his farewell UK gig at Camden’s Electric Ballroom under the guise of The Vicious White Kids, with ex-Pistol Glen Matlock on bass. In October 1978 Sid’s girlfriend Nancy Spungen was found dead in the couple’s New York hotel room, and Sid was jailed for the murder. He was released on bail but died from a heroin overdose on February 2nd 1979 while awaiting the murder trial. From IMusic on The Sex Pistols ---
**Author:** ![OrcaChow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e47c2d/32.png) [@OrcaChow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OrcaChow)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/52 "2000-10-20T07:48:53Z")
**Jollity Farm** ," by the Bonzo Doo-Dah Dog Band. In accordance with the tune, I also want my friends to arrange for various animals–ducks, cats, dogs (ones that wouldn’t chase the cats), Vietnamese potbellied pigs, parrots, etc–to meander around the room to distract people from getting too maudlin. How can one be maudlin when a duck is nearby? There’s probably some ordinance against animals running loose in a funeral home, though. Damn. ---
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 11:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/53 "2000-10-20T11:52:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > \*\*OK, I’m going to be a nit-picker for a bit. But it’s funeral music, so we HAVE to take it seriously! > > ZeGirl: “Whiter Shade of Pale” is about getting extremely drunk. > \*\* Yes, I know, Coldfire. It was a joke. Dead. Pale. Get it? ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/54 "2000-10-20T12:13:35Z")
‘Tubular Bells’ by Mike Oldfield. That, or something by the Dead Kennedys. ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/55 "2000-10-20T12:13:38Z")
No funeral, no song. No memorial at all. I’m here one day, I’m gone the next. ---
**Author:** ![Coldfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a587f6/32.png) [@Coldfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coldfire)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/56 "2000-10-20T12:16:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ZeGirl \* > \*\*Yes, I know, Coldfire. It was a joke. Dead. Pale. Get it? \*\* I have been officially whooshed. _hangs head in shame_ ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/57 "2000-10-20T13:20:58Z")
_Miss Otis Regrets_ by Cole Porter and _Lazy River_ by Hoagy Carmichael ---
**Author:** ![Sunglasses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5fc32e/32.png) [@Sunglasses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunglasses)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/58 "2000-10-20T13:27:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Coldfire \* > > I have been officially whooshed. > > _hangs head in shame_ \*\* (pats Colfire on head) There, there. I didn’t say it was a GOOD joke . . . . okay, it was a pretty lame joke. ---
**Author:** ![SqrlCub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SqrlCub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SqrlCub)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/59 "2000-10-20T13:59:06Z")
OOOOH!!! I have thought about this for a very long time for many years and I decided long ago I want them to play “Ding! Dong! The witch is dead.” I in no way want a serious funeral. I would much rather it be fun. HUGS! Sqrl ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-song-do-you-want-played-at-your-funeral/37548/60 "2000-10-20T13:59:26Z")
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