Already specified in my will. In fact, although we gave the kids the option for a Viking funeral if they wanted to take it in that direction, I'd be happy if my entire funeral service was just everybody listening to this piece:
SaltyDog said:Goin out in style - Dropkick Murphys
I would love this, except I really can't deal with them singing "I could really give a shiat." That's probably my biggest grammatical peeve. I love the song, but that's like nails on chalkboard to me. And it wouldn't even mess up the cadence if they had said, "I couldn't really.."
WonkoTheSane (Forum Supporter) said:SaltyDog said:Goin out in style - Dropkick Murphys
I would love this, except I really can't deal with them singing "I could really give a shiat." That's probably my biggest grammatical peeve. I love the song, but that's like nails on chalkboard to me. And it wouldn't even mess up the cadence if they had said, "I couldn't really.."
It would be a good way to verify your death. If you don't erupt from the casket and scream "ENOUGH!" then we can be certain you're toast.
Curtis73 (Forum Supporter) said:It would be a good way to verify your death. If you don't erupt from the casket and scream "ENOUGH!" then we can be certain you're toast.
Oooh, and I really wouldn't expect anyone there to not take an opportunity like that to annoy me on the send-off party anyway. I'm either dead and annoyed or not actually dead. Either way, win/win!
WonkoTheSane (Forum Supporter) said:
Obviously.
My sister had it played at her funeral.
Not a song so much as I want a friend that nobody would recognize to be dressed in a black suit and tie, white shirt, sunglasses. I want him to stand consipicuously in the back of the room and at the tail end of the viewing I want him to walk up to the casket, cell phone to his ear, look at me for 10 seconds, closely. Then say into the phone as he's walking away from the casket "yup. He's really dead this time". Then he disappears.
Forever Young by Rod Stewart.
I think first of all of my own little children (including an infant sleeping on my shoulder) who, just like me, are slowly fading, and I think that song can really get people to consider their own mortality, and hopefully remind my children and other love ones I leave behind just how much I’ve always loved them and rooted for them. And I think of all the kids who have died in all the wars and how these 85 year old widows still pine over an 18 year old kid who died long ago and far away, and really everyone who died too early — from my stillborn aunt to my friend John who fell asleep at the wheel shortly after high school, they will always and forever be so young. Until one day they come to someone’s mind for the last time, perhaps as their aged mom breathes her last, and then, for all intents and purposes on this creation, they will have never even existed.
May the good Lord be with you down every road you roam.
And may sunshine and happiness surround you when you're far from home.
And my you grow to be proud, dignified and true.
And do unto others as you'd have done to you.
Be courageous and be brave.
And in my heart you'll always stay
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. (Forever young)
May good fortune be with you, may your guiding light be strong,
Build a stairway to heaven with a prince or a vagabond.
And may you never love in vain.
And in my heart you will remain
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. Forever young
And when you fin'lly fly away, I'll be hoping that I served you well.
For all the wisdom of a lifetime, no one can ever tell.
But whatever road you choose, I'm right behind you win or lose,
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. (Forever young)
Forever young. Forever young
For forever young
In reply to 93EXCivic :
I've read that "Always look on the bright side of life" is the most common song sung at funerals in Great Britain.
I think I want Victory in Jesus and Big Rock Candy Mountain at mine.
Lamb of god-walk with me in hell
or
hatebreed - final prayer
stroker said:What songs would you like to be played at your funeral?
Just curious.
I'm picking for Hans Zimmer's "Chevaliers de Sangreal"
Also
What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong
Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) said:Prop me up beside the jukebox by joe diffie
Amazing grace
Joe Diffie (God rest his soul) said he was shocked when he heard that song was being played at funerals.
Country Roads by John Denver. Because all native West Virginians want to go back home.
The song the jack in a box plays, pop goes the weasel
It'll make as much sense as the life that preceded it.
Free Bird, the live version from 1976. My family has been aware of my request for years. Lynyrd Skynyrd dedicated it to Duane Allman and Berry Oakley of the Allman Brothers.
Also either this or the IDKFA version:
bobzilla said:At the very end, last song.... Never gonna give you up. Mostly because I'm a prick and I would get to rickroll everyone one last time.
This is magnificent.
Scotty Con Queso said:Country Roads by John Denver. Because all native West Virginians want to go back home.
My friends father had this played and then we put his urn on his bike and rode 300 miles to his homestead. In West by God Virginia.
Rough ride, lot of pollen in the air , yea pollen.
DrBoost said:Not a song so much as I want a friend that nobody would recognize to be dressed in a black suit and tie, white shirt, sunglasses. I want him to stand consipicuously in the back of the room and at the tail end of the viewing I want him to walk up to the casket, cell phone to his ear, look at me for 10 seconds, closely. Then say into the phone as he's walking away from the casket "yup. He's really dead this time". Then he disappears.
Can I volunteer to be the man in black?
ProDarwin said:
Not here. I don't want people cryin' after I'm dyin', That song hurts enough as it is.
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