# Your funeral song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827 "2015-02-04T18:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/41 "2015-02-05T05:56:12Z")
Tori Amos - [Happy Phantom](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL9PTDI62Jk) Keaton Henson - [You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2fCcggNkTs) ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/42 "2015-02-05T05:56:49Z")
I can’t donate my organs so I want my body to go to a teaching hospital where surgeons-in-training can carve me however they need, hopefully while cracking irreverent jokes and checking their cellphones. Whatever’s left can go wherever amputated limbs are usually tossed. But if there’s some kind of get-together (memorial sounds too formal) I’ve got some songs I’d like to be played. Like Todd Rundgren’s Last Ride. In My Life by the Beatles. Lots more. Basically forcing my kids as a captive audience to finally listen to the music I like. The play list would wind down into bluegrass, like I Am Weary, Let Me Rest, and as of now ending with Vince Gill’s Go Rest High on That Mountain. I would hope that with the booze, food and weed, a good time would be had by all. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/43 "2015-02-05T06:00:56Z")
I’ve always planned on no services for my demise, in the fear that no-one would show up anyway. However, my recent retirement party led me to believe that I have had some beneficial effect on some people, and they might want to have an occasion to remember. I’d start out really, really sad: [Dido’s Lament (When I Am Laid in Earth)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIAi2XwuWo) by Purcell, which has the advantage of being from an opera in English. This would be played as people gather, and will get them in the properly sombre mood. At the end, after everyone has had their say, I’d go with [“Some Other TIme”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcoRaNtz078) from “On The Town.” This expresses perfectly how I will feel after I’m dead. For any other music, I have about 60 mix tapes of vocal jazz that they could play, if they can find a cassette player. Or they could run my iPod on Shuffle mode. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/44 "2015-02-05T12:34:08Z")
This is probably massively unoriginal, but The Flamings Lips’ ‘Do You Realize?’. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/lPXWt2ESxVY/maxresdefault.jpg "The Flaming Lips - Do You Realize?? (Official Music Video) [HD Remaster]") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPXWt2ESxVY) > [@](#): > > Do You Realize - that everyone you know someday will die > > And instead of saying all of your goodbyes - let them know > You realize that life goes fast > It’s hard to make the good things last > You realize the sun doesn’t go down > It’s just an illusion caused by the world spinning round ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 12:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/45 "2015-02-05T12:40:57Z")
> [@stui\_magpie](#): > > AD-DC Highway to Hell. Here too! I also want a tombstone with an eternal flame around a figure of a man in torment. ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/46 "2015-02-05T12:49:14Z")
[Time by the Alan Parsons Project.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB2YyAgg9Z4) It seems like the perfect funeral song for an agnostic. _Goodbye my love, Maybe for forever Goodbye my love, The tide waits for me Who knows when we shall meet again If ever_ ---
**Author:** ![Scumpup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce73a5/32.png) [@Scumpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scumpup)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/47 "2015-02-05T13:11:18Z")
I plan to be cremated and I want [Burning Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZDP4Xdslho) by Elvis Presley played. If [The Flying Elvises](http://movieclips.com/iANy-honeymoon-in-vegas-movie-the-flying-elvises/) can be enlisted to scatter my ashes during a jump, so much the better. ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/48 "2015-02-05T14:26:12Z")
Moody Blues’ Night In White Satin including Late Lament Alan Parsons Project’s Old and Wise (perhaps The Zimmers’ cover) Annie Lennox’s Into The West from LOTR III (perhaps Happy Rhodes’ cover) Hymns: It Is Well With My Soul How Great Thou Art Joyful Joyful We Adore Thee Instrumental: Richard Wagner- Magic Fire Music -Der Walkure Siegfried’s Rhine Journey -Siegfried Siegfried’s Funeral March -Gotterdammerung ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/49 "2015-02-05T14:52:24Z")
“Amazing Grace” sung to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun.” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/50 "2015-02-05T17:44:37Z")
I’ve actually pondered this question before, and my answer was Frank Zappa’s “Son of Mr. Green Genes.” Reason- I don’t really know. ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/51 "2015-02-05T17:44:52Z")
[I Shall Wear Midnight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITG2hdqQpu4) by Steeleye Span ---
**Author:** ![Malthus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/85f322/32.png) [@Malthus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malthus)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/52 "2015-02-05T19:07:24Z")
The Parting Glass (traditional), the version by the Pogues. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FD5xQVqmAU) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/53 "2015-02-05T19:19:45Z")
Pepper Mill wants Creedence Clearwater Revival’s _Out my Backdoor_. Me, I’d like something classical. One thing I like is J.S. Bach’s _Little Fugue in G_, as rendered by W. Carlos on the synthesizer. (It appears on _Walter Carlos By Request_, and shouldn’t be confused with the more familiar Toccata and Fugue in D) ---
**Author:** ![Andiethewestie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ba9def/32.png) [@Andiethewestie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andiethewestie)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/54 "2015-02-05T19:24:23Z")
How Great Thou Art , I always think of my Grandma Amazing Grace - and Just Breathe Pearl Jam ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/55 "2015-02-05T22:17:49Z")
“How Can I Keep From Singing” ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/56 "2015-02-06T00:54:42Z")
[Shirakuen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAO9fTK2KGU)(Corpse Paradise) by Shiki∞Project. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/57 "2015-02-06T01:21:30Z")
Over my wife’s objections, I want [The Hell of It](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYFTbzREY7M) and [Box of Rain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwhktLINnjo) played first. After that it’s anything goes. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/58 "2015-02-06T01:49:37Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > “Amazing Grace” sung to the tune of “House of the Rising Sun.” I looked that up on Youtube, that actually comes up really well. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/59 "2015-02-06T01:59:13Z")
This is “Viper” by Dixieland, better known as Abby’s Song from Kate’s Funeral (NCIS). [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKyYM7tstSw) it is on Youtube. ---
**Author:** ![zoogirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b9bd4f/32.png) [@zoogirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoogirl)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827/60 "2015-02-06T02:20:46Z")
“Spirit in the Sky” full blast and maybe “l Love The Dead” or “Cold Ethyl” both by Alice Cooper. Definitely “School’s Out” at some point in the proceedings! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-funeral-song/711827.md?page=4)