What song would you like played...

Morbid? Do you want to hear morbid??? I actually have a playlist. It's on my computer and my best friend knows what all the songs are. It began a long time ago in high school with Elton John's Funeral for a Friend.

I want "I will alway's Love you" Whitney Huston ( For eveyone I Love)

Garth Brooks' "The Dance" and Frank Sinatra's "The Lady is a Tramp" (a testament to my Tombstone madam days) and Gretchen Wilson's "Redneck Woman".

In the arms of the Angels sung by Sara McLachlan.

I really like the two songs, by Kenney Chesney and Tim McGraw. I get teary when I hear them.

Hmmm. I'm thinking The Hokey Pokey. Because, you know, that's what it's all about.

I'm also a part of a "fraternity" of sorts. Part social group, part "secret society", part alcohol. We have a theme song. We have a society "beverage". The song and the drink will be a part of my funeral and anyone who eulogizes me has to wear a pirate hat and fake parrot on their shoulder. Don't ask

And, just to make it serious for a second, I'd like someone to sing "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods. Followed up by "Because I knew You" from Wicked for extra garaunteed boo-hooing. Hey, I'm dead, and that sucks. People should be sad, for about 15 minutes.

Then, to close it all out, a solid medley of cheesy 80's tunes. Ending with Baby Got Back. And people are required to dance. Electric Slide preferred, but not required.

Can you tell I'm a giant weirdo? Oh, wait, you already knew that....

I want the most playful, happy songs played at my funeral. I want people to remember the fun we had, instead of sobbing over the future fun that we won't.

"Followed up by "Because I knew You" from Wicked for extra garaunteed boo-hooing. "
Ah another Wicked fan.

For me I've always loved Pachibel's Canon.

I want a memorial service of some sort and then a get-together with music, lots of stories of stupid or phenomenal things I did.

I told my family........and they better do this, or I have told them I WILL haunt them for the rest of their lives. Closed casket! I do not want people coming up staring at me now or when I am dead. And I want to be cremated so there will be no casket. I want part of my ashes spread on a beautiful beach by my loved ones.

Anyway, way too much info probably but....as for music;
Freebird-Lynrd Skynrd
The Dance-Garth Brooks
Some Eagles tunes definitely and about 20-30 minutes of this sappy stuff maybe. Then celebrate my life, don't sit and cry for me, I will be in a MUCH better place than the rest of them.

Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole... it would be fitting, no? It's also, IMO, one of the best songs EVER written.

Originally Posted by Vibiana

My mother died in 2004. Both of us are singers, and a few years before she died, I promised her that I would sing the "Pie Jesu" from Gabriel Faure's 'Requiem' mass at her funeral.

I did. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done, yet emotionally uplifting. It was my last gift to her, and the culmination of the music she had taught me to love.

As for my own service -- I would like Gounod's "O Divine Redeemer" sung, preferably by Jessye Norman, but hey. LOL

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I sang a hymn at my maternal grandfather's funeral as a request of my grandmother. Very hard to do. I was to sing at her funeral but I just couldn't do it.

In my strange mood (blame the hormone shift), the first thing I thought of
So Long, Farewell which the VonTrapp kids sing at the ball in The Sound of Music.

Weird question. I doubt I would have ever thought of it for the rest of my life. I guess I would have someone play a piano piece I wrote. That's the only time people will acknowledge classical music anyway; when you're dead.

I know it's boring, but Mozart's Requiem, it's beautiful.

Of course something just for me would be lovely: My grandfather is a composer and he composed a song for my grandmother's funeral and played it himself. It was very touching.