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What music do you want to have playing at your funeral? I think I'd have some hippy-make-love-not-war song, although I might just as well have Weird Al, They Might Be Giants, or some comedy sketch play in the background.

I won't be having a funeral.

What music do you want to have playing at your funeral? I think I'd have some hippy-make-love-not-war song, although I might just as well have Weird Al, They Might Be Giants, or some comedy sketch play in the background.
"Amazing Grace" on bagpipes, and the US Army Band playing "Battle Hymn of the Republic," although not at the same time. :D

What, you gonna be tossed of a boat in international waters by the mafia without anyone knowing you're dead?

I won't be having a funeral.
True. You'll be fried by a defective toaster oven! :D

I won't be having a funeral.
Are you immortal or something?

"Amazing Grace" on bagpipes, and the US Army Band playing "Battle Hymn of the Republic," although not at the same time. :D

I think they would go quite well together

What music do you want to have playing at your funeral? I think I'd have some hippy-make-love-not-war song, although I might just as well have Weird Al, They Might Be Giants, or some comedy sketch play in the background.
You won't be able to hear any music over the wailing and sobbing of all the women who are mourning my death.

What music do you want to have playing at your funeral?

The Internationale. And I'm not joking :)

Are you immortal or something?

No, I just won't be stuck into the Earth, as it's a waste of resources, and I won't have a pointless ceremony.

I want my body to burned, and then have the ashes dumped in the pool of whoever is on the top of my enemies list at that moment. Final revenge will be mine, as I strike out from beyond the grave and clog his water filter.

No, I just won't be stuck into the Earth, as it's a waste of resources, and I won't have a pointless ceremony.
I agree with the wasting resources thing.
About a ceremony, however, I thinks its not for the person that died.
Its to comfort the loved ones behind, whoever they are.
I'd think about that if I were you, whether you are religious or not.

Never thought you were. This isn't supposed to be a joke thread. :D

I'm tempted to, instead of a funeral, have myself creamted, and the ashes mailed to whoever the president is at the time with a note that says in large capital letters, HERE!

I wan't Marilyn manson playing at my funeral, songs like use your fist not your mouth, and cake and sodomy. That would be a funeral remembered for a long time.

System Of A Down's Soldier Side, Since That's Probably How I'd Die, Since The Draft Will Most Probably Soon Be Put Into Effect.

I agree with the wasting resources thing.
About a ceremony, however, I thinks its not for the person that died.
Its to comfort the loved ones behind, whoever they are.
I'd think about that if I were you, whether you are religious or not.

Although I agree with the waste part, I agree that the ceremony is important, and I want people to have a good time, because, frankly, I don't believe anyone would be crying at my funeral anyway. :D

How about 'Highway to Hell'?;)

its pretentious but

Don’t remember where I was
I realized life was a game
The more seriously I took things
The harder the rules became
I had no idea what it’d cost
My life passed before my eyes
I found out how little I accomplished
All my plans denied

So as you read this know my friends
I’d love to stay with you all
Please smile when you think of me
My body’s gone that’s all

A tout le monde
A tout les amis
Je vous aime
Je dois partir
There are the last words
I’ll ever speak
And they’ll set me free

If my heart was still alive
I know it would surely break
And my memories left with you
There’s nothing more to say

Moving on is a simple thing
What it leaves behind is hard
You know the sleeping feel no more pain
And the living are scarred

- A Tout Le Monde, Megadeth


maybe Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf too :)

I agree with the wasting resources thing.
About a ceremony, however, I thinks its not for the person that died.
Its to comfort the loved ones behind, whoever they are.
I'd think about that if I were you, whether you are religious or not.

They know my wishes very well. No ceremony. I'm fairly confident they'll keep to them. If they want, they can get together in someone's home and talk trash about me when I'm gone if it makes them feel better, though. The choice of music will be theirs, should they choose to have music.

I would recommend "Black Eyed Boy" by Texas to them:

"You should know, you're falling into fiction
I can tell you're on some foolish mission
Your black eyed soul, you should know
That there's nowhere else to go."

True. You'll be fried by a defective toaster oven! :D

Wrong thread, (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=467006) papi.

Although I agree with the waste part, I agree that the ceremony is important, and I want people to have a good time, because, frankly, I don't believe anyone would be crying at my funeral anyway.
That's what it is, a celebration of someone's life, and then comforting those that remain. So, in other words, party on! :D

The crazy parting doesn't always apply, due to age, cause of death, and many other things, but that'd just make this post overcomplicated and depressing.

Wrong thread, (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=467006) papi.
Nope. Right reference. :D

Despite the fact that this thread was hi-jacked before it even got started, it seems to be coming back around :p

I'll answer the OP.

Something like these:
http://www.classictouchmusic.com/sound/dannysample.mp3
http://www.classictouchmusic.com/sound/JesusJoyofMansDesiring.mp3
http://cdbaby.com/mp3lofi/highlandfling-05.m3u

From:
http://www.classictouchmusic.com/

They know my wishes very well. No ceremony. I'm fairly confident they'll keep to them. If they want, they can get together in someone's home and talk trash about me when I'm gone if it makes them feel better, though. The choice of music will be theirs, should they choose to have music.
Getting together and talking trash consitutes for a rather informal ceremony, in my book. Its all good then, as long as people get together for support, celebration and such.

That's what it is, a celebration of someone's life, and then comforting those that remain. So, in other words, party on! :D

The crazy parting doesn't always apply, due to age, cause of death, and many other things, but that'd just make this post overcomplicated and depressing.
I told all my children that I want them to have a party after the funeral is over and tell each other funny stories about me. I was rather startled when they all agreed, especially when my younger son said, "Kewl. We'll be there all night!" :eek:

I told all my children that I want them to have a party after the funeral is over and tell each other funny stories about me. I was rather startled when they all agreed, especially when my younger son said, "Kewl. We'll be there all night!" :eek:
That's very good, and kewl. I haven't really thought about my own funeral myself, rather young (I planning on that for a very long time :D ), but I've thought of something. I don't know why, but ever since I can remember, I've loved Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker." I think it has something to do with a movie at my grandmother's in early childhood, I'm not sure, but that should be played. By CD, orchestra, or whatever. It doesn't play any huge roll in the medium.

Getting together and talking trash consitutes for a rather informal ceremony, in my book. Its all good then, as long as people get together for support, celebration and such.

I'd prefer they don't, but I'll be dead, so I won't care.

Nope. Right reference. :D

Having nothing to do here.

I told all my children that I want them to have a party after the funeral is over and tell each other funny stories about me. I was rather startled when they all agreed, especially when my younger son said, "Kewl. We'll be there all night!" :eek:

That's better than them not having any stories at all.

I'd prefer they don't, but I'll be dead, so I won't care.
Exactly.

The Internationale. And I'm not joking

Same here. And maybe the Moonlight sonata, first movement.

Exactly.

But damn them if it's religious. They will lose all inheritance if it is.

The Star Wars Imperial March.

I will have Yoko Ono screaming at a shaven chimpanzee while squirrels throw nuts back and forth to each other in a game of monkey-in-the-middle against a bored 9 year old girl.

I will have Yoko Ono screaming at a shaven chimpanzee while squirrels throw nuts back and forth to each other in a game of monkey-in-the-middle against a bored 9 year old girl.

So, basically, you'll have anything Ono has done?

I will have Yoko Ono screaming at a shaven chimpanzee while squirrels throw nuts back and forth to each other in a game of monkey-in-the-middle against a bored 9 year old girl.

It'll make an awfully poor monkey-in-the-middle if she's bored.

Personally i like the idea of being pushed out to see on a boat and having the boat burnt (viking style)

So my music would be the the sound of the waves and the crackle of the fire.

Personally i like the idea of being pushed out to see on a boat and having the boat burnt (viking style)

Good luck getting a permit for that.

Dropkick Murphy's version of Amazing Grace

and

David Allen Coe singing I'm the only man who can make Linda Lovelace Gag

Good luck getting a permit for that.

Meh international waters, screw a permit :P

Good luck getting a permit for that.

That's what international waters are for.

But damn them if it's religious. They will lose all inheritance if it is.
That's a "laugh out loud" there! :p

Their material loss for spirtual comfort.

Meh international waters, screw a permit :P

And how do you plan to get your burning ship to international waters? Here's a tip: You have to go through national ones. Sort of ruins the "pushed out to sea" if you're just put in a kayak that happens to be out to sea and is then burnt.

It'll make an awfully poor monkey-in-the-middle if she's bored.

Yes, well ... it *is* a funeral.

That's a "laugh out loud" there! :p

Their material loss for spirtual comfort.

They'll go for the former comfort, trust me.

Yes, well ... it *is* a funeral.

But boring funerals are so Diana.

Personally i like the idea of being pushed out to see on a boat and having the boat burnt (viking style)

So my music would be the the sound of the waves and the crackle of the fire.
And "Flight of the Valkries." [ nods ]

But boring funerals are so Diana.

Well I do share her birthday.

And how do you plan to get your burning ship to international waters? Here's a tip: You have to go through national ones. Sort of ruins the "pushed out to sea" if you're just put in a kayak that happens to be out to sea and is then burnt.
Prolly have to launch it from Antarctica. :)

And "Flight of the Valkries." *nods*
Oh my God! That is such a good piece! :p
And I've never even seen a Vietnam war movie! :D

Prolly have to launch it from Antarctica. :)

Why couldn't one lauch it, get to international waters, and while getting in life boats, set it ablaze?

Well I do share her birthday.

That just gave me the heebee-jeebies.

Why couldn't one lauch it, get to international waters, and while getting in life boats, set it ablaze?

Because that's not how it's done.

Okay

I also forgot i have to have

William Shattener singing "You're Gonna Die"

I also forgot i have to have

William Shattener singing "You're Gonna Die"
Thats comforting. Sort of.

Thats comforting. Sort of.

Its funny its soppuse to remind people its a FUNrel

That just gave me the heebee-jeebies.

I'm sorry. So very, very sorry.

My husbands song-- Volcano by Jimmy Buffet... we play that song in the bar every once in awhile and he tells everyone around him that this is his funeral song

"i don't know where I m a gonna go when the volcano blows..." it is actually a really good song--

Its funny its soppuse to remind people its a FUNrel
Ah...you must mean "FUNeral". Got cha'. ;)

I'm sorry. So very, very sorry.

No, you're not. And that's what I like about you. That and your ass and beard.

No, you're not. And that's what I like about you. That and your ass and beard.

Ok you're right ... I'm not. What I am is pissed that Diana never sent me a birthday card.

My ass and beard likes you, too. :D

Ok you're right ... I'm not. What I am is pissed that Diana never sent me a birthday card.

Bitch never did to anyone.

My ass and beard likes you, too. :D

Dirty thoughts run through my mind. :)

*inhales, exhales, regains control*

What music do you want to have playing at your funeral? I think I'd have some hippy-make-love-not-war song, although I might just as well have Weird Al, They Might Be Giants, or some comedy sketch play in the background.

One of the best hippy-make-love-not-war songs is "Feel like I'm fixing to Die rag".

At my funeral people will be required to dress casual and leave open snacks rather than flowers on my grave.

I'd probably want The Freshman by The Verve Pipe playing ,but that's onlt because I love the song right now. Blowin' in the Wind by Bob Dylan would be more preferable.

I won't be having a "funeral" but my kids might do a memorial service or something, if they want to, I won't try to say what they should do, since it won't be for me.

Ding Dong the witch is dead.

I'd have the music from 'Ski Sunday'* played as the cofin is slowely lowered into the furnace.

*Ski Sunday for those who don't know is/was a U.K. sports show about Skiing that was aired on a Sunday.

Well I do share her [Princess Diana's] birthday.

It's all yours now, buddy.

Funeral? You seem to assume that they'll ever find my body.

Funeral? You seem to assume that they'll ever find my body.
*yells from six foot hole*

What's that you say?!

*yells from six foot hole*

What's that you say?!

Nevermind, keep digging

I won't be having a funeral.
Indeed.
"Amazing Grace" on bagpipes, and the US Army Band playing "Battle Hymn of the Republic," although not at the same time. :D
Indeed. Except Amazing Grace sung by Aretha Franklin or something, then Hymn, then maybe Blow the Man Down, followed by bagpipes, followed by Amerinidan or African or Asian funeral music (I'm thinking maybe those Inca blow pipe thingies maybe*).

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I'll just be a hunk of rotting flesh when I'm dead so I probably won't care. But to stay on topic I'd say I wouldn't mind D.O.A by DOA.

A co-worker had "Nothing Else Matters" by Metallica played at his funeral. We all sat in this fundamentalist Christian church (his parents choice) when the tape started playing it. You could see the pastor becoming more and more uncomfortable as the song went on.

As for me, I want the Guild of St. Cuthbert (SoCal Renaissance Faire) to march around my coffin singing the closing march for RenFaire.

Not sure what I want. Maybe "Fear and Wonder," "Blazing Monoliths of Defiance" and "Perfection or Vanity?" by Dimmu Borgir, as well as Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King," and "The Wanderer" by Emperor. Oh, and something by Battlefield Band with bagpipes in it. And "Solitude" by Black Sabbath. Damn, I think that's a bit too many.