A song for your funeral

Flying In A Blue Dream by Joe Satriani

It's an instrumental, but a beautiful piece of music.

A mate of mine picked Little Fluffy Clouds by The Orb for his.

 

hmm, obviously influenced by Christina Rossetti's Remember me when I am gone away:

Me, I'd have the Ying Tong Song by the Goons.

 

i believe a certain sense of mourning (and thus crying) is fine. however, i know there are many who obsess about a death and allow it to take over their lives.

as examples, my mother for instance, had a stillborn child a few years after I was born, and it took her many years to move on from that death and it caused loads of marital problems between her and my father and thus problems for me as well as i was quite young and didn't understand what was going on.

my mother-in-law lost her brother (who was only about 40 at the time) and her sister a few years later (she was in her late-30's), a few years after that her mother died due to a stroke. it's been 3 1/2 years now since her mother's death and she has yet to really move on from the tragedy of it.

so yes, if i were to die, and my death was to be such a source of pain for someone, say my husband for instance, that he would suffer for years of grief because he lost me at whatever age, then yes, i would rather he forget me and move on than to slowly lose his own life mourning the loss of mine.


and sorry for the late response, i somehow missed your post.

 

and after that song..get stoned...and forget..
Tiger

 

I just realised that the whole song is about death, why am I always the last to catch on?! lol

I love the line:
"life's a piece of shit... when you look at it"

 

My friend left with that tune playing, made me cry.

I think I'd fancy Ripple by The Grateful Dead.

 

I'm not sure, dont want to think about it right now. I know my friendsdad is gonna have starwars, just imagine it with a flying coffin and that underside shot from a new hope.

 

My girlfriend's would be Elton John's Sacrifice. Mine would be Cat in the Cradle.

 

Adagio for strings - barber

 

I have posted before something about the Alice In Chains. But they have something hopeful and hopeless in their music, also Leonard Cohen. Let's hope for the best babes.

 

For me -Killed by Death,Motorhead[obvious reasons.lol] and possibly A Tout Le Monde,Megadeath.I love Alice in chains -Would, It's haunting and evocative - but not for my funeral.

 

If i die a teen then maybe Teenagers by MCR... Not sure - i tend not to think about my funeral... Of course mine wont definitely have music.


Or we apologise for nothing by fightstar.

 

My Way by Sid Vicious and Going Underground by The Jam for obvious reasons

 

argh this is such a difficult question...i've been to too many funerals recently. my sister told me years ago that she wanted jimmy cliff's "i can see clearly now"...which i thought was a beautiful pick. i think i would like either JGB's "my brothers and sisters", grateful dead's "day's between" or the wailers "pass it on"

and then drift me out on the ocean on a raft...light me on fire...and have a raging drum circle...bang those drums til it rains!!!!

 

My mother had 'I can see clearly now' played at her funeral. She loved that song.

My mate died a couple of weeks ago and had 'You'll never walk alone' by Gerry & the Pacemakers played.
Not a dry eye in the house!

 

Air on a G string - violins

 

maybe stairway to heaven by led zeppelin or tears in heaven.

 

Always look on the bright side of life, clearly....

 

anything involving death bloodshed or pain for me

 

It's generational thing obviously. Just silence and buried on the ground. Old fashioned but yeah.