12-03-2005 00:47									#31
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i'd spin in my casket if someone played Elvis at my funeral.

	12-03-2005 00:50									#32
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I thought the funeral scene in Garden State was hilarious with the "Once Twice Three Times a Lady" being sung in a strong NJ jewish accent.

	12-03-2005 05:45									#33
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I think that "Til We Meet Again", the end theme song of "How I Learned To Love The Bomb" would be nice at my funeral.

I think I'd like for to have "Die Gotterdamerung" played when they lower my casket into the ground.

Another good one would be "The Gigilo Song (Life Goes On Without Me)."

	12-03-2005 05:51									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Dissident on second thought, I want my entire music collection played at my funeral. I want my funeral to last weeks. I don't care if everyone leaves.

That would be awesome.



DrS:

The Galaxy Song
-- from Monty Python's The Meaning of Life


Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown,
And things seem hard or tough,
And people are stupid, obnoxious or daft,

And you feel that you've had quite eno-o-o-o-o-ough,

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine thousand miles an hour.
It's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
The sun that is the source of all our power.
Now the sun, and you and me, and all the stars that we can see,
Are moving at a million miles a day,
In the outer spiral arm, at fourteen thousand miles an hour,
Of a galaxy we call the Milky Way.

Our galaxy itself contains a hundred million stars;
It's a hundred thousand light-years side to side;
It bulges in the middle sixteen thousand light-years thick,
But out by us it's just three thousand light-years wide.
We're thirty thousand light-years from Galactic Central Point,
We go 'round every two hundred million years;
And our galaxy itself is one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.



Our universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding,
In all of the directions it can whiz;
As fast as it can go, that's the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth;
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!

	12-03-2005 15:22									#35
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quote: Originally posted by Sikander ... or Pick Up the Pieces.

That's only if you donate your body to science or there's a pressing reason for an autopsy.


If by happenstance I'm interred, I'd want 'Road to Nowhere' or 'We Gotta Get Out of This Place' .

	13-03-2005 06:44									#36
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Sarah McLachlan - Angel

Spend all your time waiting
for that second chance
for a break that would make it okay
there's always some reason
to feel not good enough
and it's hard at the end of the day
I need some distraction
oh beautiful release
memory seeps from my veins
let me be empty
oh and weightless and maybe
I'll find some peace tonight

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

so tired of the straight line
and everywhere you turn
there's vultures and thieves at your back
and the storm keeps on twisting
keep on building the lies
that you make up for all that you lack
it don't make no difference
escaping one last time
it's easier to believe in this sweet madness
oh this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees

in the arms of an angel
fly away from here
from this dark cold hotel room
and the endlessness that you fear
you are pulled from the wreckage
of your silent reverie
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here
you're in the arms of the angel
may you find some comfort here

	13-03-2005 06:53									#37
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:vomit:

I think "Today" by the Smashing Pumpkins would be good for bitter irony.

quote: Today is the greatest Day I've ever kown Can't live for tomorrow Tomorrow's much too long I burn my eyes out Before I get out I wanted more Than life could ever grant me Bored by the chore Of saving face Today is the greatest Day I have ever known Can't wait for tomorrow I might not have that long I’ll tear my heart out Before I get out Pink ribbon scars That never forget I’ve tried so hard To cleanse these regrets My angel wings Were bruised and restrained My belly stings Today is Today is Today is The greatest day That I have ever known I want to turn you on I want to turn you round I want to turn you on I want to turn you Today is the greatest Today is the greatest day Today is the greatest day That I have ever known

Maybe "Tonight, Tonight" also by SP

quote: Time is never time at all You can never ever leave without leaving a piece of youth And our lives are forever changed We will never be the same The more you change the less you feel Believe, believe in me, believe That life can change, that you're not stuck in vain We're not the same, we're different tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight And you know you're never sure But your sure you could be right If you held yourself up to the light And the embers never fade in your city by the lake The place where you were born Believe, believe in me, believe In the resolute urgency of now And if you believe there's not a chance tonight Tonight, so bright Tonight We'll crucify the insincere tonight We'll make things right, we'll feel it all tonight We'll find a way to offer up the night tonight The indescribable moments of your life tonight The impossible is possible tonight Believe in me as I believe in you, tonight

	13-03-2005 07:08									#38
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Irony at funerals I can understand the need for something that celebrates the life you've led, rather than commiserating the loss, but irony strikes me as hideously out of place. It'd be painful to ask people to sit through that, gratuitously so IMHO.

	13-03-2005 07:12									#39
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Depends on the person. If you've lived ironically, then why not die ironically? I hate funerals that are meant to be easy on the living... it seems too desperately happy and that's not the point. Celebration or no doesn't really matter... it's supposed to be about the deceased. If it's painful for people to sit through, well boo hoo; death is painful, live with it.

	13-03-2005 07:15									#40
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Death is painful, so why make it worse? Why willfully inflict your pain onto others? It seems sadistic to me. I don't mean make funerals "desperately happy", but they are a time for people to think about the deceased, more for their death and celebrate the life they've lived, not an opportunity to cause anguish among those who cared enough to turn up.

	13-03-2005 07:21									#41
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I said funerals are supposed to be about the deceased. Whether it's making the attendees happy or anguished still suggests that it's about the attendees, but that's what I hate. To each his own... if people want that, then fine, but there's nothing wrong with this way either.

Besides, anguish is also a part of life, it's part of what death is for. People turn up to funerals because they care about the deceased, they love them, and anguish is an important part of love, such that they'd go to the funeral despite it being depressing.

	13-03-2005 07:30									#42
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Yesterday I was at the sixth' funeral in my family this winter (seventh if you also count my nieces hamster), and I still haven't found the "right" melody - it all depends upon the person whom is dead. The last one (I surely hope) would have preferred a mix between an old socialistic battlesong and something happy - full of life - that was his life.

	13-03-2005 07:32									#43
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BlackCat: My condolences

	13-03-2005 07:39									#44
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Thanks.

	14-03-2005 17:52									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Drogue Irony at funerals I can understand the need for something that celebrates the life you've led, rather than commiserating the loss, but irony strikes me as hideously out of place. It'd be painful to ask people to sit through that, gratuitously so IMHO.

I love the idea of Peter Sellers' funeral swinging along to a piece of music he couldn't stand- 'In the Mood' .


If people can't laugh at my funeral, then dammit, then can just up and die themselves, the morbid souls.

It's the only time you get to give a great party and don't have to worry about vacuuming or housecleaning after.

Irish wakes are about eating, drinking, celebrating and remembrance, not sitting around with faces as long as Jeffery Archer's list of falsehoods or wet weekends in Bognor.

	14-03-2005 19:55									#46
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quote: Originally posted by molly bloom I love the idea of Peter Sellers' funeral swinging along to a piece of music he couldn't stand- 'In the Mood' . If people can't laugh at my funeral, then dammit, then can just up and die themselves, the morbid souls. It's the only time you get to give a great party and don't have to worry about vacuuming or housecleaning after. Irish wakes are about eating, drinking, celebrating and remembrance, not sitting around with faces as long as Jeffery Archer's list of falsehoods or wet weekends in Bognor.

I agree completely, I'd much rather have a funeral that was joyous, about celebrating life and what you can do with it. However irony would be hideous and misplaced, IMHO.

	14-03-2005 19:59									#47
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Well if you want to have a happy funeral, there's no reason why not, my point is that it's likewise for ironic.

Like I said above, the funeral should be about the deceased, the reason is that when you die, it's not the end. Not in a religious sense, but others still have memories of you, and anything you've produced, say a book, will manifest some part of your personality... the finality is only with your existence, the funeral is effectively the focal point for everyone's memories. Happy or sad doesn't come into it, each funeral is as different as the person being buried/cremated. So in that sense, there is nothing wrong with an ironic funeral.

	04-05-2005 09:28									#48
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I wanted to point out that I bookmarked this thread at the time (first time ever for me) and read it almost everyday since. (I lost a great friend couple months ago so that subject is sorta on my mind).
Ive been trying to find a suitable song for me, and would like more suggestions (some great ones already).

	04-05-2005 10:33									#49
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Europeans

I love Metallica, but I wouldn't want it playing at my funeral. Unless they were live.... that'd fricken rock.

Otherwise, I'm with Drogue. Something more respectful and solemn. I mean, **** its a funeral. I know Europeans are all atheists without much respect for life, but come on, this sounds really bad.