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The only reason I can see for playing 'I've had the time of my life' at your funeral is if you're going to get a Patrick Swayze-alike to do that lift with the coffin and carry it out to the applause of the mourners. I can't quite see this working for my corpse, though, unless I die from a really bad wasting disease or the lifter is more Capes than Swayze.

What about the mighty

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giggirl Wrote:

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> WILD HORSES - Rolling Stones


Oh my God, that's one of my all time fave songs!!!! Slightly concerned now that I'm planning to play it at my wedding as opposed to funeral :-S


Going back to Rage against the machine, I wander if anyone's ever been shot, and had "Bullet in your head" played... That's what I want if I should meet my maker at the hands of a gunman >:D<

If I may add what was actually played at my Fathers funeral a few years ago, we managed to get the crem people to allow us a good old fashioned Jazz Funeral, with a Humanist service (much less depressing I have to say then some priest / rabbi / stranger spouting off about the person he/she/it didn't know)


I was lucky (??) enough to speak for the the last 10 minuts of the service and we got them to pump the Jazz funeral music from the Bond film "Dr No" over the pa system whilst I pressed the button to lower the coffin. It was interesting to see peoples reactions as his coffin vanished from view just as the slow bit finished and the fast bit of muisc started.


He actually requested that piece of music many years ago and I have to say, I would too as it was quite a magical moment and lifted a lot of peoples spirits ... (I promise you we didn't toast him until after he was toasted himself)


Got to say - it was one of the more lively funerals I have been to, jazz playing in the background and everyone randomly standing up and telling good stories about him (it was one of the things we asked people to do and it worked well)

My dad passed away last year and we had The Dubliners doing The Wild Rover for him, on CD I hasten to add. It was a song he loved to sing and was more or less his theme tune. I got everyone to sing it in the pub afterwards as well with yours truly leading from the front. We celebrated his life not his death and everyone had a good time. It's what he would have wanted.

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