# Your Funeral Song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 28, 2008, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594 "2008-09-28T17:33:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/21 "2008-09-28T20:30:52Z")
[What a Day for a Daydream](http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=daydream&www_google_domain=www.google.com&hl=en&emb=0&aq=f#) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/22 "2008-09-28T20:41:02Z")
_Free Bird_ for me. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/23 "2008-09-28T21:06:38Z")
[Prospero’s Speech](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV1vKxakYIs). Moody enough? ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/24 "2008-09-28T21:22:27Z")
Bandera. [Listen here free.](http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/willienelson/albums/album/260664/review/5944633/red_headed_stranger) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/25 "2008-09-28T21:32:01Z")
If I achieve anything sufficiently badass with my life - enough that my funeral take place in the National Cathedral, with heads of state and whatnot - then Mozart’s Requiem Mass would be cool. 😃 Failing that, Voltaire’s “God Thinks” would be fun. ---
**Author:** ![Moriarty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/moriarty/32/49_2.png) [@Moriarty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moriarty)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/26 "2008-09-28T22:29:46Z")
Dark Side of the Moon, by Pink Floyd. ---
**Author:** ![LurkerInNJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@LurkerInNJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkerInNJ)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/27 "2008-09-29T00:09:46Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > I never got my shit together enough to have a real life or any true friends, so truthfully nobody is going to give a shit. You can’t change the life you have had up until this minute … but from every moment going forward what your life is or is not is entirely up to you. ---
**Author:** ![SpectBrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a87d85/32.png) [@SpectBrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpectBrain)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/28 "2008-09-29T00:11:02Z")
I think I’d like Fairport Convention’s “Meet on the Ledge”. ---
**Author:** ![Oredigger77](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oredigger77/32/3181_2.png) [@Oredigger77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oredigger77)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/29 "2008-09-29T00:42:30Z")
> [@MizTina](#): > > I actually have the funeral CD with the executors and on it is a better version of Louis Armstrong doing (I’ll be glad when you’re dead)"You Rascal You. I can’t get hyperlinks to work today, so here [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOKV\_SVJBOU&feature=related](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOKV_SVJBOU&feature=related) > > I’ve had this planned since I was 15. 😃 I feel a whole lot less weird now. I’m going to DJ my wake. I’ve started putting together the play list and I’m going to lay down the first couple of vocal tracks here in the next year. I figure every couple of years I’ll keep adding to it until I die and have a great sound track for the wake. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/30 "2008-09-29T00:48:16Z")
> [@LurkerInNJ](#): > > You can’t change the life you have had up until this minute … but from every moment going forward what your life is or is not is entirely up to you. Oh, I fully realize _that_ little fact. Just enough to make me choke, in a dozen little ways, every day. You see, if you’re right, and you surely are, then your entire goddam life is on the line all the time, in everything you do. Never a moment’s peace, just endless performance anxiety. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/31 "2008-09-29T00:52:40Z")
I’ve been telling everyone for years that I want Talking Heads’ “Heaven” played at my funeral. Somebody damn well better remember. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/32 "2008-09-29T01:12:27Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > **Yes, We Have No Bananas**. Win! ---
**Author:** ![Valgard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/7feea3/32.png) [@Valgard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Valgard)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/33 "2008-09-29T01:14:07Z")
Just one song? “I Feel Good” by James Brown. That would be appropriate given my sense of humor and when I die I for damn sure do not want there to be a room full of people sitting there miserable. I want a party where people can remember me with laughter. ---
**Author:** ![picker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/picker/32/13969_2.png) [@picker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picker)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/34 "2008-09-29T01:21:00Z")
Whipping Post, by the Allman Brothers, followed by Ripple/Brokedown Palace by the Dead. Then one hell of a wake, with a live band and jam session. ---
**Author:** ![CaveMike](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cavemike/32/16379_2.png) [@CaveMike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaveMike)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/35 "2008-09-29T02:03:39Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Yackety Sax? I’d love to see the looks on their faces when that first note slides in. You’ve given me a reason to fake my own death – well, another reason. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/36 "2008-09-29T02:21:05Z")
“Joyful, Joyful we adore thee” esp the fourth verse: Mortals, join the happy chorus, Which the morning stars began; Father love is reigning over us, Brother love binds man to man. Ever singing, march we onward, Victors in the midst of strife, Joyful music leads us Sunward In the triumph song of life. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/37 "2008-09-29T02:35:16Z")
I don’t want a funeral. I want to be cremated and have my ashes spread over my favourite haunts. I want people to have a party in my honour. I want them to drink, tell stories, about me, laugh, and have a good time. I’m 46. When I die I hope to be 76, or 86, but even if I get hit by a bus tomorrow I want people to drink, laugh, and enjoy themselves. My dad died two years ago. This is exactly what we did. I wouldn’t have it any other way now. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/38 "2008-09-29T02:51:01Z")
Dust in the wind, All we are is dust in the wind… –Kansas ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/39 "2008-09-29T02:57:18Z")
“Always Look on the Bright Side of Life” from _Life of Brian_. Followed by selected readings from the _Havamal_, and the torching of my body with all its wordly possessions. And lots of drinking. ---
**Author:** ![WarmNPrickly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d78d45/32.png) [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594/40 "2008-09-29T03:15:31Z")
[Oh Yeah!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Q7FFjUpVLg) OK but seriously [Mad World](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ4yADbKA7E) I hated that fucking movie, but few songs have ever effected me so deeply. ETA: OK maybe “fucking” was a bit strong. I didn’t like Johnny Darko. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/465594.md?page=3)