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Since Kate started these 'death wishes', let us be morbid again:)

what music do you want at your funeral?

Will we get the usual mush - Sinatra 'I did it my way' or will some of you get the congregation chuckling.

I recall a memorable funeral where nothing but ABBA was played.

Pink Floyd 'I have become comfortably numb' seems apt:D
YouTube - Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb Pulse 1994 (Live)

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Let me get in first with The Jam......Going Underground(sorry) if i did`nt someone else would......:rolleyes:

Me? i think i`s go for Highway To Hell by AC/DC.....

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I was at a funeral last Friday, Guns n Roses and Bon Jovi were played.

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i'd prefer the sex pistols version of 'my way' :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIXg9KUiy00

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Just because they're beauitiful, and the second has no religious overtones. I just like it.

YouTube - Kathleen Ferrier. Blow the wind southerly . Unaccompanied

YouTube - Bach - Ave Maria - Maria Callas

...and as the curtain closes.

YouTube - Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye

:D

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Yerself - that was lovely:)
a bit of culture

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We'll meet again Vera Lynn

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You'd have to expect Monty Pythons "Bright side of life" in here somewhere or other !! :D

Not sure how to upload the vid but I'm sure someone will. :s_aim1::s_aim1:

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This ones mine ...has been since the 80's

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went to a funeral at the crematoriam a few months ago .. one step beyond by Madness was played when the curtains were shutting ..

mine i havent the foggiest .. all i know is i want to be buried rather than cremated .. that stems from 24 years ago after telling my dad to his face a month before he died that he wasnt being cremated he was being buried .. id just gone to a funeral and it was a cremation ..

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i'm having this seen as i'm an organ donor :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmbw8OycJrE

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Good one Flashers........................:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

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YouTube - Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive


This thread has really been bothering me, so i`ve changed my mind, it was a toss up with Highway To Hell but i`ve informed my missus its Bon Jovi.................final answer.

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My aunt died recently at 100 + years old.
They played an Elvis song as we went into the church and there were champagne glasses and a bottled of champagne on the coffin for us all to have a drink on her.

When the vicar chap had said his bit a musician sat by the coffin and sang "She'll have to go" it was an old Jim Reeves song but he sang "He'll have to go.

We then went orf to the big fire place and sent or on her way.
She had planned all this in advance, best of all was the big wad she left over the bar in the Top Brink Todmorden so we could all get blathered while a CD we had made of all her favourite music was played. A good day out was had by all, except my old aunty.

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The End..by the Doors

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That is brilliant Gremlin. We went to a cremation here in Tenerife last Thursday. I was well impressed to find that there was a bar in there. It was good for all family and friends to meet up and have a drink or two before the service. Nerves were settled a little.

Jerusalem was the chosen hymn which I quite like myself but I might change my mind in the future. Drinks on the coffin is a definite!!

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Where in Tenerife are you Junetta? we spend a lot of time there as do my parents who are there as we speak.

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I've been to a couple of 'interesting' funerals in recent years. One involved the Back to the Future theme and 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' by Nirvana, while another played the Doctor Who closing theme as the curtains closed. Both were completely appropriate to each person and it really helped to lighten the mood.

In contrast, when my mother-in-law was cremated we had quite sombre music and we were all glad of the chance to express a bit of grief.

I'm hoping mine will be about 50 years off but I want it to be the biggest ****-take ever and this has to feature somewhere:

YouTube - Dead,Dead,Dead

A mate of mine put it on his answerphone and the first person to ring up was his nan....oops.

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Can't come up[ with a final choice - torn between "Jerusalem" (England, for all thy faults I love thee still), and Nat King Cole - "When I Fall in Love". My first love and I used to listen to that on a wind-up gramophone, so it has very special meaning. She will probably decide anyway:-)

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hopefully i will out live my youngests mother and be able to play this at her funeral:D

YouTube - Fame "Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead"

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Oh deary deary me !! Accyman you are incorrigible :D :D :D but it didn't half make me grin thanks.

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Hello Pipinfort, just seen your question............we are in Playa San Juan xx

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think Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries is good to send someone off with

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made my choice years ago, but am still here so a wonder i remembered, "In My Life"- Beatles, "Lets Think about Living"- Bob Lumen, n to finish off Sea Cruise - Frankie Ford. no reason other than i love those 3 records, mate finished off with Wooly Bully - sam the sham a couple of years ago n it certainly put a smile on the people leaving the crem.:)

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In think the most appropriate music would be "return to sender":D

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How very American :D It seems Lt.Col Kilgore 1/9 Air Cav seemed to think so too :rolleyes: Francis Ford Coppolas "Apocalypse now". Did enjoy the film I must admit.

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i think ac/dc highway to hell would be appropiate as i glide down teh conveyor belt into the furnace

thats assuming teh kids can afford a funeral for me and dont fly tip me and i have to make do with whatevers playing on teh car stero.

mind you teh way this countries going we will soon have a tub to go alongside teh rest of teh tubs the council leave us to fill each week for this and that :rolleyes:

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YouTube - K.D. Lang sings Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah

Don't need to say anything more really.

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:D:D But the next line is 'address unknown" .. wonder which will be your next forwarding address Mick ?

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Here you are Dave.
YouTube - Always Look On The Bright Side of Life

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1 - Coffin goes through the curtains.

2 - Corner of curtain is lifted by end of coffin re-entering crematorium.

3 - Coffin disappears.

4 - Repeat steps one and two in time to music, three times.

5 - Coffin retreats behind curtain.

6 - Coffin re-enters from behind curtain, and lid opens and closes in time to music five times.

7 - False leg flies up from opened coffin, giving perfect high kick.

8 - Coffin finally closes, and goes behind the closing curtain.

9 - Cue audience applause.

YouTube - The Stripper - Sandy Nelson

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Cheers for that Yerself, you're a grand Man & A Happy St.Patricks to you.

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You're flyin' nowhere.

We need you on the first of every month.

Twelve midnight, sharpish.

:D

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thanks Rindy,,,,,,and where are you on F,LAND,,,,,you are so missed on there..x