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Songs After Death (SAD)

Lucianarchy

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Not really. :)

I know many sceptics share my views about the afterlife, but I guess some must just think, 'so long, and thanks for the all the fish...' . So what would your funeral / wake song(s) be? Which songs could sum up your life?

Me, I'd go for 'Down at the School-yard (You, Me and Julio)' . :D
 
My mother has requested all Frank Sinatra, and for me, probably all Yes and Beatles.

Michael
 
Imagine--John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
 
Smokin' Frank Schubert's Trout Quintet -- the whole thing!

I realize that's going to make a long funeral. I hope I don't croak in hot weather.
 
I have not presumed to decide what others should think or do after I am dead. My instructions are that they can dump me wherever they like, make a christian or buddhist funeral, or whatever. I will not be able to appreciate it anyway.

When I was a child, though, I instructed people to sing a Danish pop song at the time: "I have my horse, and I have my lasso!".
 
Lucianarchy said:
Not really. :)

I know many sceptics share my views about the afterlife, but I guess some must just think, 'so long, and thanks for the all the fish...' . So what would your funeral / wake song(s) be? Which songs could sum up your life?

Me, I'd go for 'Down at the School-yard (You, Me and Julio)' . :D
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Just One Victory - Todd Rundgren
 
It changes daily based on my current favourite song:

I think "Uncle F***er" would probably go down best
 
I agree with steenkh about not being able to appreciate your own funeral since I don't believe in an afterlife, either. Still, I want my funeral to reflect what I stood for. And I want the music to tell my loved ones what I felt about them. So I've already told everyone I want "Old and Wise" by The Alan Parsons Project.

Some of my favorite lines:

And to those I leave behind
I want you all to know
You've always shared my darkest hours
I'll miss you when I go

And someday in the mist of time
When they ask you if you knew me
Remember that you were a friend of mine
As the final curtain falls before my eyes

For some reason, these words always move me. I can't hear the song without tearing up, and just typing them in gave me chills!

(A curious anecdote: A few years ago, I was at the lake with my husband and we were preparing for our final night dive to get our Advanced Diver certification. I had had a very bad experience on my very first night dive the night before but was determined to overcome the fear. As we were gearing up in the parking lot, another diver pulled up in her car and that song was playing on her CD player. I looked at my husband and he knew what I was thinking right away. OMEN!!! Of course, I don't believe in omens, but it was still creepy, hearing my funeral song playing as I was preparing to do something I thought might kill me. Anyways, all turned out well, obviously. I completed my certification and have no problem night diving at all now.)
 
Lisa Simpson said:
Imagine--John Lennon

Imagine there's no heaven,
It's easy if you try,
No hell below us,
Above us only sky,
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Excellent choice! I may have to steal it. One of the great songs of all time, in my book.
 
I just realized--it's too bad I no longer believe in reincarnation. Then I could have had "The Bitch Is Back" played at my funeral. :)
 
sackett said:
Smokin' Frank Schubert's Trout Quintet -- the whole thing!

I realize that's going to make a long funeral. I hope I don't croak in hot weather.
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At least you'd have a prayer of getting a live band preform it.

I want Beethoven's Seventh Symphony.

At the end of the last segment of Carl Sagan's series, Cosmos, there's a wonderful montage of shots of people from all over the world just being people. Working in the fields, running around on playgrounds, in shops, in laboratories, etc.

Welling up from the background, like some great eruption, is the last minute or so of Beethoven's Seventh. As the symphony comes to its triumphant end, with angel trumpets and devil trombones, the last visual is of a Saturn V rocket headed for the moon. And as the music dies away, you hear Sagan say, "These are some of the things hydrogen atoms do, given five billion years of cosmic evolution."

If I can't have that kind of sendoff, I don't want to go.
 
None whatsoever - my last concious act would be to wheel myself off a cliff face and save people the trouble of burying a pile of old flesh.
 
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