Funeral music?

[Ecclesiastes]

Perhaps it is strange but I don't really care. I thought a lot about the music I wanted to hear on my funeral. It should be something happy and not sad. Something that explains my life with only the sweet sound of piano. Pain, sorrow, happiness. That is my life and that is what the song should be about. It is a song I have from rachmaninov called somewhere in time. Beautifull I tell you Beautifull. Says everything: sorrow, pain, happiness, frustration, enlightenment. Everything my life so far has been. My life is still short however I think about my death and funeral. Meaningless and meaningfull. Ah how sweet life is. I hope you can see it. Look at the sky, look at the happy moments, life is beautifull.

Perhaps you have thought about the same thing. what would you like to hear on your own funeral and why?

[removeduser_426582376423734]

At my aunts funeral, we played "I Wish - R Kelly". It really makes you cry.

[Atheist Peace]

I want to hear loud, inappropriate (meaning not generally used in the setting, considered rude) music. It just goes along with my personality in general, and how defiant I am.

[Kanaric]

I want to hear loud, inappropriate (meaning not generally used in the setting, considered rude) music. It just goes along with my personality in general, and how defiant I am.

My dad used to say back in the day that he wants us to play Another One Bites the Dust at his funeral.

Usually for our family we have either no music (my dads side) or amazing grace with bagpipes (mothers side).

[.Socrates]

I just want to get random techno music and make my carcass pop out of a tree and have lights going everywhere.
Do i hear best funeral ever?

[Kanaric]

I just want to get random techno music and make my carcass pop out of a tree and have lights going everywhere.
Do i hear best funeral ever?

ROFL, ya a good funeral if you like to trip on ectasy.

[.Socrates]

Hmmmm... good idea.
Ecstasy in the drinks! Brilliant!

[Troubleshooter]

"Welcome to Dying" from "Blind Guardian"

[Sétanta]

I want a funeral full of pomp and circumstance

bagpipes playing a mourneful tune

[Lusted]

Im not going to have a funeral - too sad and mournful. You should celebrate someones life, remember who they were. Yes, you should mourn, but be glad you knew the person.

As for music, it will probably be a selection fo my favourites, with some great classical stuff thrown in.

[Ecclesiastes]

Im not going to have a funeral - too sad and mournful. You should celebrate someones life, remember who they were. Yes, you should mourn, but be glad you knew the person.

As for music, it will probably be a selection fo my favourites, with some great classical stuff thrown in.

Tell us what music.

As for the funeral. Whell I think mine should be happy and not mournfull, I always wondered why I and others cried at funerals. I guess it is because whe know we wont see the person for a long time. My funeral should be happy and mournfull. I want them to laugh, to know my life. To create meaning in meaningless. That is such a beautifull thing, the only thing I hope. Meaning in meaningless. Somewhere in time there is meaning. Meaning that one can create. Create it and there shall be hapiness.

[Atheist Peace]

If you want specific music... then one certainly would be "Lookin' In" by Bad Religion, because it very well defines my life.

[RichiN]

I'm gonna keep this short and just answer the question. Music at my funeral.. I would say Floggin Molly.

[Ecclesiastes]

What is there seriously to mourn about. Someone has passed away. Whether it be to heaven or into nothing that person is no longer there. That person however has lived and in both ways has no pain, no suffering. That person is free, totally free. Why do people mourn, rather rejoice. That person is free of everything. He or she now knows everything or knows nothing. Flowers are for the living my grandpa once said to my mother And I agree. But the person who jsut passed away is truly alive, free from all chains. Rather rejoice.

[Goscinio]

Why should I care which song they play on my funeral? I don't suppose I'll be able to hear it anyway. It should be the decision of the closest family relatives, since they are the ones that have to listen too it the music.

That said, I think you should play rather sad music, or at least not happy music. I think the funeral is the time to mourn, and after the funeral it's the time to remember the good things about a person, and bring up memories of things you've done with him/her. I think that if you play happy music on a funeral, you won't be able to move on with your live, because you couldn't really mourn intensively.

[removeduser_426582376423734]

At my funeral, probably Puff Daddy feat. Faith Evans - I'll be missing you. Its overrated, I know, but I cant get over that song.

[RusskiSoldat]

At my aunts funeral, we played "I Wish - R Kelly". It really makes you cry.

**** like R Kelly makes me cry too.

[therussian]

Armenian music is very interesting. On one hand, it can be very upbeat, very lively, very cheerfull. But on the other hand, there are times when Armenian music can be very slow.....as slow as death itself. The sounds of the tar (guitar like instrument), when played in such a dark, and dismal mood, make one's heart shatter to millions of tiny pieces. It's amazing really. The history of the Armenian people is revealed through their music. Cheerful and bright at times.........and dark and dismal at others.


So, without a doubt, I'll have predominately Armenian music. Other pieces of music I will probably have will be Chopin's Funeral March, and other classical music (and maybe a song by the Beatles. Who knows?)

[RusskiSoldat]

On the topic, I'll definitely have Russian music at my funeral (unless I'm buried by the US army, which in itself is a possibility).

[Kanaric]

rofl, that reminded me of my friends house when we used to do ****. Never did ecstasy though, always heard how it could kill you so never got ****ed up enough to ignore that.