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Which song (s) would you like played at your funeral? Why?

Posted - August 30, 2018
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  • 1365
    "You Stop My Heart." I think the occasion, like most, could use a light touch.
      August 30, 2018 11:25 AM MDT
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  • 1365
    "We Be Burning" if I'm cremated, though.
      August 30, 2018 11:26 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    I can see that you like to be prepared for all exigencies! Thank you for this reply too DG!  :)
      August 30, 2018 11:29 AM MDT
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  • 1365
    Oh yes, and then there's Aaliyah's "Can I Come Over" should I become a ghost. Thank you, Rosie, and Happy Thursday!
      August 30, 2018 11:56 AM MDT
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  • 113301
    I'm not familiar with it DG. Thank you  for your reply and Happy Thursday to thee! :)
      August 30, 2018 11:28 AM MDT
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  • 22907
    :)
    :)
      August 30, 2018 12:05 PM MDT
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  • 10515
    One Gun by 54/40.  Because it is about a defining moment in Canada's history plus the band is from BC. Cheers!  
      August 30, 2018 11:30 AM MDT
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  • 22907
    Maybe just have this one song played, along with this exact youtube video -- I love the illustration and the video contains the song lyrics.
    And maybe just have this song comprise the entire (and very, very short) service -- no talking by anyone or anything. Just the song. Let everyone just watch and listen. I think the song sums up things pretty well.
    :)

    "On My Way Home"  Enya

    This post was edited by WelbyQuentin at August 31, 2018 3:56 AM MDT
      August 30, 2018 12:04 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    I've truly never thought about it... I can remember very well having, 'Little white bull' by Tommy Steele played at my mum's funeral... people were very surprised!  But those who knew her, knew exactly why I chose it.. it was a song she would sing and make people laugh with.. 

    You probably won't have time or inclination to play all the songs mentioned here but this one, if you do hear it, is very unusual... Tommy Steele was a London actor  - famous back in the 60s, he apparently lived across the the street from my Nan and mum when my mum was a very little girl.  I am not sure if that's why she loved it, or just because it was a silly, and back in more innocent times, funny song 

      August 30, 2018 2:41 PM MDT
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  • 6477
    If it were for me maybe I would have Simon and Garfunkle's sound of silence 
      August 30, 2018 2:42 PM MDT
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  • 7280
    Ode to Joy might work.

    Staged this way would be cool:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxLbmnvMWM0

    And then I would exit the church kind of like the Delorian in the "Back to the Future movie.

    (I cannot stop chuckling about such a scene.)


      August 30, 2018 2:55 PM MDT
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  • 5391
    “Gonna Fly Now”, by Bill Conti.
    Also known as the Theme from Rocky. 
      August 30, 2018 4:53 PM MDT
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  • 1305
    Good question, two from Vera Lynn come to mind

    Yours

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onH-WTVQGsg

    Wish Me Luck As You Wave Me Goodbye

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_f5NbPOOGE

    I'll be seeing you - Anne Shelton

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU0umVyUJYM


      August 30, 2018 5:08 PM MDT
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  • 44232
    None. No funeral. Med students get to slice me and dice me. When they're done my family can have me buried at sea from a US Naval vessel.
     I'm not sure but they might play 'Taps'.
      August 30, 2018 10:06 PM MDT
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