When I die....

it's all over now bobby womack

softly as i leave you matt monro

Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World

Slim Whitman - Casting my Lasso in the sky
Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name
Queensryche - Silent Lucidity

Motorhead - Stone dead forever.

Motorhead - Killed By Death - YouTube

& cash bar.

& cash bar.

burn in hell

cash bar.

nice touch

Motorhead - Killed By Death - YouTube

& cash bar.

Do you mean the Clash's 'rock the cash bar'?

And MG wot no 'you'll never walk alone?'...plastic ;)

3 songs...and how I see them:

Jake Thackray - I stayed off work today (the importance of romantic love, how it can change you and staying true to your own moral compass)
The Smiths - I know it's over (the crisis of an individual, the importance of being kind)
Alan Parson's Project - Old and wise (death and thanking your friends)

Then a piss up as funerals the family comes together. Then dividing my properties back to the wider society, as in the Dune zensunni tribe. Eco-funeral with tree seed please.

Ow and of course the big lebowski scene where the ashes scattering goes terrible wrong due to wind... ;)

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Having my dog that was born into my hands euthanised in the morning. So probs not that cheerful. And a little drunk.

:( Hope you feel a bit better now...always very hard that.

Richard Thomson - Vincent Black Lighting
Mason Jennings - Drinking as Religion
AC/DC - Highway to Hell

I am organising my Dad's funeral. I have been given a lot of examples of the order of service. It seems that there are a** lot** of people the have the following songs as part of the funeral:

You raise me up by Michael Ball
Angels by Robbie Williams

There is no way in the world that my dad will have these songs at his funeral. Although he liked Status Quo FFS, which is probably not a lot better than Robbie or Ball...

Venus from Holsts Planets. The bringer of peace.
Moments in love ultra rare never released Anne Dudley live on the boards version by Art of Noise.
Belfast by Orbital. 7 minutes representing 1 for each decade of life and the aural equivalent birth. Life. Zenith. Slow end.
Please.
Thanks.

^ Can you feel it, good call

Rhythm is Rhythm - Strings of the Strings of Life

The Velvet Underground - I'm set free

3rd is tough - maybe Halcyon and on by Orbital

you can log all this kinda stuff on one of Bill Drummond's projects - http://www.mydeath.net/

Knew about Strings Ill make a note of V.U

1/ a poem 'If' by Rudyard Kipling.
2/ 'The laughing Policeman' played as the Coffin dissappears.
3/ 'Always look on the bright-side of life' as every one walks out.
If anyone cry's at my funeral I want it to be with laughter

Moby - Feeling So Real
Energy 52 - Cafe Del Mar
The Prodigy - One Love

90s Dance funeral

I'm serious though.

I'll take that list, but swap One Love for Break and Enter.

I haven't listened to Feeling So Real for tiiiiiime.

The Smiths - Asleep
Jimmy Cliff - Many rivers to cross

For those of us that want to troll a bit...( not my real list but...if your funeral is at Halloween...)

Procul Harum - The Dead Man's Dream, pretty creepy.
Royskopp - The Final Day, also creepy

Baltimore - Nina Simone's version: about making life better with those around us.
Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie: about living a tough life with humour and humility, and not giving up.
Another Star - Steve Wonder: about joy and hope and LOVE.

Too much death around. November spawned a monster

Im too pissed to do this this i dread the hangover in the morning night peeps
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Do you mean the Clash's 'rock the cash bar'?

And MG wot no 'you'll never walk alone?'...plastic ;)

Do I look like a Celtic fan?

Bump.
Remember no video posts.
We can maybe extend this to a brief outline of what you do and what do not want for the ceremony.

I do not want a religious ceremony that is irrelevant to my life.

What I think we all learned yesterday is that if you talk about something but don't document it formally in a way that lawyers might recognise, your wishes are just wishes.

And things you would never want to happen can and will happen because you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family.

Pretty much. Unless you're lucky enough to have next of kin that you are close to or 'get' you then you just get whatever they would want for themselves. Monday was a reflection of that.

On the other hand, my funeral won't be for me, I'll be long gone by then - it's for family and friends, so why shouldn't they do it how they see fit? Monday was a bad example, but in a funny way it sort of reflected his life - half of it was shaped by religion and the other spent hanging out with us idiots in the pub and lmnh. Just needed a bit more design..