Cremation music.

[RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased)]

I want 3 songs at mine, but this one means the most.
Apart from the obvious reference to seagulls, my mum was singing this to stay calm giving birth to me. It was there at the very beginning and I want it there at my life's end.
Joni Mitchell- Song to a seagull

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LBGqGZ9GWzE

 

[martyn20]

Brother's in Arms - Dire Straits, although if I had my way there would be no cremation or burial

 

[El Sid]

Brother's in Arms - Dire Straits, although if I had my way there would be no cremation or burial

Would you like to be dissolved, pickled, rendered down for dog meat or just left out for the bin men?

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

I'll see you in my dreams Joe Brown.
Thats always a good one for getting the congregation wailing.

I was going to post that. I saw him do it in concert a couple of years ago. Not a dry eye in the house, and I would not hold myself as being the most sentimental person around.

I don't think anyone has mentioned "Fire", by the Crazy World of Arthur Brown.

An aunt of mine a few years ago had a couple of Jimmy Durante songs at the beginning and end of the service - the opening being an upbeat one (can't remember what) and the final being "From may to September", which worked well.

And I know plenty of vicars, priests, ministers and so on who would have no problem at all with the original version of "Always look on the bright side of life."

 

[martyn20]

Would you like to be dissolved, pickled, rendered down for dog meat or just left out for the bin men?

I just don't see the attraction of your friends and family sitting around in a room with you at the front in a box, rather be remembered for the times I was with them alive.
Donation to medical science is an alternative, there are others.

 

[m20gull]

Would you like to be dissolved, pickled, rendered down for dog meat or just left out for the bin men?

Dumped in a green bin, with the dog.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

1 minute 11 for the impatient amongst you.

 

[El Sid]

I just don't see the attraction of your friends and family sitting around in a room with you at the front in a box, rather be remembered for the times I was with them alive.
Donation to medical science is an alternative, there are others.

With about half a million UK deaths annually we'd need a lot of body storage and a large increase in the scientific community.

 

[martyn20]

With about half a million UK deaths annually we'd need a lot of body storage and a large increase in the scientific community.

There is actually a shortage of people donating their body to science, it's not actually very easy as it needs quite a lot of legal issues to be solved before you go. Sadly I understand I am someone they would be interested to 'work on' given the chance!
Fact is I just don't want the ceremony and that's only partly due to the religious aspects that always seem to creep in even at more secular cremations.
Funeral directors can arrange for that side of things to be done totally privately without the event being marked. You can have a party to celebrate your life without you having to attend some part of it in a wooden box.

 

[Zen Frenzy]

Long departed work colleague had the curtains closed to Bruce Springsteen's "I'm on Fire"

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Brian Eno - An Ending

with you there, moving, dark brilliance.

 

[tinycowboy]

You Never Should - My Bloody Valentine

Hasn't got much to do with death or life, but I just love the bit where the guitars lift off into the mesosphere. Play it loud enough and you're glad of the gift of life.

 

[grubbyhands]

Rolling Stones " Wild Horses" for me please.

 

[OzMike]

Unforgettable Fire - U2

 

[Garage_Doors]

Always thought "Bodies" would make a good exit, but will opt for Anarchy.

 

[Diego Napier]

Brian Eno - An Ending

Here Come the Warm Jets surely, or even Baby's on Fire?





Sorry!