BS: Your own funeral

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: *Laura*
Date: 17 Sep 06 - 05:35 PM

Queen - Another One Bites the Dust.
please.

xLx

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Sorcha
Date: 20 Aug 07 - 08:14 PM

As cheaply and 'green' as is possible here, with the family feelings in mind. BUT...if they play any of that Jesus Music, especially In the Garden, Rock of Ages, or Amazing Grace, I WILL rise up and haunt them to the end of their days! LOL!

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Neighmond
Date: 21 Aug 07 - 09:12 AM

"Claremont" by Alexander Pope

"Happy Land" by Andrew Young

"We will walk through the streets of the City" by Garfield.

And a regular old hillbilly wake.

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: GUEST,Keinstein
Date: 21 Aug 07 - 11:27 AM

When I die, I want my body to be cryogenocally preserved so that future generations can laugh at it. And so that they can sing at the funeral: "Freeze a jolly good fellow..."

Alternatively, I want the DNA in my body to be extracted, just to see how many times it stretches to the moon and back.

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: SINSULL
Date: 21 Aug 07 - 12:05 PM

I am going but quietly. Instant cremation. Scatter me in the nooks and crannies of my house. I like Maine.
I have left some money to a friend who will use some of it for a party. Toast me with Jack Daniels and let me lie in peace.

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: The PA
Date: 22 Aug 07 - 03:54 AM

My friend has cancer and all the treatments have been unsuccessful, he only has months to go, so he has arranged his own funeral - how brave is that. This set us all thinking, I have decided on the compulsary wearing of pink, men included, and a stand up comedian. If anyone is miserable, I'm coming back to haunt them. Music, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life, and Roll out the Barrel.

The husband is getting chucked on the muck-heap - well there's no point in waisting him, is there.

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Genie
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 03:13 AM

I'd love to have a bunch of jazz musicians do the New Orleans "funeral" version of Saints Go Marching In.

Also Terry Pinnegar's "Flyin' Shoes" and Rick Fielding's "Sing With The Angels."

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: kendall
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 07:27 AM

Anything but Amazing Grace..

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: GUEST,BobL
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 09:10 AM

Last three minutes or so (depending on the conductor, with Len Bernstein it will be more like four) of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms.

And since I'm a founder member of the WGMA, the Shropshire Funaral (sic) Hymn, complete with high sop doing the alto line an octave up as a last-verse descant.

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Peace
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 10:59 AM

I don't want one. A funeral that is. Waste of money, waste of time. Buy a perfectly good box--made from wood, polished and all--and put it in the ground or the oven of a crematorium. That make any sense to y'all? And pay 5-10 thousand dollars for the privilege of having people come tell more lies about you in death than they usually did in life? Humbug!

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Sep 07 - 12:09 PM

I'm with you, Peace. I don't see any reason to have a funeral. I'd like to leave the room so quietly that no one even found out about it for a year or so...by which time I'll be well in on my next project anyway, and good and done with this one, I can assure you.

Subject: RE: BS: Your own funeral
From: Catherine Jayne
Date: 28 Sep 07 - 03:47 AM

Funerals are for the people left behind and for some reason cost an absolute fortune, unless you know an undertaker and someone who does horse drawn funerals etc!

I want to be cremated once any organs that are useful have been removed for donation. I have written my funeral...just so it is right and doesn't have any Christian elements in it. I don't want the curtains to close at the cremetorium as its what most people focus on and remember. I want a party atmosphere, I don't want my death mourned but my life celebrated. I've got a list of music but it will constantly change as my life changes.