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What would add/change to these?

The top 10 funeral songs

1. My Way - Frank Sinatra

2. Time To Say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman

3. Over The Rainbow - Eva Cassidy

4. Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler

5. Angels - Robbie Williams

6. Supermarket Flowers - Ed Sheeran

7. Unforgettable - Nat King Cole

8. You Raise Me Up - Westlife

9. We'll Meet Again - Vera Lynn

10. Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life - Eric idle, from Monty Python's Life Of Brian

‘Who Wants to Live Forever’ - Queen tops my list
‘Fire’ - Crazy World of Arthur Brown (just in case)

Disco Inferno - Burn baby burn by The Trammps.

I want one step beyond played at my funeral.

The 10 most depressing songs I can think of.  Then the wake will an alcohol free zone, none of celebration of life bollocks, I want people to be miserable about my demise.

Are you sure they’re not miserable enough with you being alive?

Nah i’m a ray of sunshine.

Seriously though it’s staggering the amount of people I know that will go to any old funeral going just because there will be a piss up after.

Just before she died last year we asked my mum what she wanted playing at her funeral.... Her response was, I don't care I won't be there will I!

So between us we came up with a couple of choices, my sisters being a little awkward as knowing my mums sense of humour we expected to hear a knock on the coffin during the song!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdIdZ1qz4lo

Firestarter - The Prodigy

I'll take Say Goodbye for the service, then the theme from Trapdoor for the coffin disappearing

On a similar cheery thought, where do people stand on burial or incineration and if the latter where are the ashes going?

incineration/can go in the bin for all I care. it's not me

I'd rather donate my body to science. Let some trainee surgeons cut me open and have a poke about inside.

If/when I pop my clogs in Greece I’m not entirely sure if I want to remain here or be returned to Blighty. I know it really makes fuck all difference, but . . .

I used to fancy being scattered around the CG - an arm here, a leg there, me arse pointing towards the Bank.

Apparently, the British cemetery here is full so I’d have to go the Greek Orthodox route, I guess.

I’d go with what FH says about body disposal, although as I’ll be dead and don’t give a fuck I’ll leave it up to whoever is the position of authority.

Mince me up and flush me down the toilet in a port talbot working mans club for all I care.

Song wise it’d have to be irritating or something nobody would like. Bird is the word or 10 minutes of minimalist Japanese techno.

The club don't allow that unless its done surreptitiously by a family member or mate.

What they do allow is have the ashes buried about 4 foot down under the goals as they did for my dad when he died.

I want In Paradisum from Fauré's Requiem.  Fitting for a funeral but, more importantly, a very beautiful, almost ethereal, piece of music.

And I want to go up in smoke quickly, or chemically dissolved or whatever (if cremations have been banned by then on environmental grounds).  Having my useless corpse slowly rotting away in a hole in the ground does not appeal.

My funeral is all paid for already at 53.

When you have some illnesses you have to think about these things as myself and my wife have both lost both of our parents and without insurance the cost is huge for what you actually get.

Only 1 of our 4 parent had enough savings/insurance to cover the funerals and the basic funeral is about £4,000 now with no flowers, no extra cars, just the basic service and cremation and return of the ashes in a plastic tub.

Yes you can hand the body over to the state for a paupers funeral but you will have no say at all about times/service etc so you could be the first funeral of the day at 7am making it hard for any family to get there and as all my family are in Swindon, 120 miles away, thats difficult.

We didn't want to leave that to our kids to pay so we took out insurance about 2 years ago that covers the basic funeral after the first year, so we are safe now!

As for the actual service...I haven't as yet given it a thought, havent thought about music, anecdotes etc and don't really care at all about it as I won't be there, only in body!

As for the ashes...again I don't really care about that, buried up at the Yeovil or Taunton crem probably.

Why isn't Highway to Hell on the list.

I want to go in the ground and then have the headstone clamped.

Ending up as tinned food might not be too far away.

I think your arse should go in the car park, you could double up as a bike rack.

Or Going Underground

I have told my kids that I want to be carried in to Highway from hell, then I want always look on the bright side of life during the service, then when they take the coffin I want them to play Ring of fire.
But knowing my kids I will probably end up with Barbie Girl by Aqua and other equally crap pop songs.

Quoted for posterity :)

Ring of fire and burn baby burn and several others are banned by almost all crematoriums in the UK, my mother in law wanted that and was told that it was not possible because of local crematorium rules. No sense of humour them undertakers.

I'd rather burn than be dumped in the ground. Music - a bit of Neil Young, a bit of Richard Thompson - not too bothered which ones. Both a bit miserable like me.
My one eccentric request is for a hand on the end of the coffin and that when it goes behind the curtains, the middle finger goes up in the air so its the last thing people see. Not too much to ask.

Breaking into Heaven - Stone Roses

My dad had a Scottish piper leading the cortège- had no idea that was on the agenda. 20 years ago, now.

Bloody hell. Time just slips away.

Donate me and carry on as normal, no need for people to spend their hard earned money gathering to wish me goodbye when I am gone already.  Se no point in burial or funeral.

Whilst I won't be there, I quite fancy The Man Don't Give a Fuck by SFA.... Just for shits and giggles really!

"I hear you knocking" by Dave Edmunds for me.

Alternatively Co-op Members' no ceremony deal for £1,100. But if after I'm gone any of you necros on here fancy a go on me before rigor sets in, then go for it.

Always wanted to go down the route of cryogenics/science for myself. As for a song - genuinely;

Insomnia - Faithless
or
Sabotage - Beastie Boys

 :pint:

He is my 2nd cousin, I could actually arrange for him to sing it live for the right fee ;)

Who do you think you are? Prince Edward?

Tbh I thought Dave had knocked off years ago. I hope he is doing well.

He has retired officially, I haven't seen him in years but he was in great health last time I saw him thanks even though it must have been about 3 years now.

Theme from The Magic Roundabout as everyone files in. Funeral Pyre, by The Jam, during the service. Theme from Roobarb and Custard as everyone files out.

https://youtu.be/NIUc4NZsCCw