The last funeral I was at was tha of a fellow singer and they played a recording of her to accompany a sequence of slides from her life - very moving, and a lovely singer too.

We were listening to JK singing What's the Life of Man today on our travels; now there's a fine song for a athiest / humanist funeral with a smattering of folkies amonst the guests.

I have a different song for my funeral every week - last week it was Joey Ramone singing Wonderful World (short and sweet) right now it's Starsip Trooper by Yes (not so short but I played it the other day and my 13-year-old inner self wept like a baby).

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The worst instance of recorded music in church I ever heard was when my wife's parish priest insisted on playing REM's Everybody Hurts during Holy Communion.

Another great funeral song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXhD1dDSVj4