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johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 17:09 -

okay, i hope this is not too morbid. i'm not trying to be. my dad and i have said we both want to have certain songs played at our funerals (my playlist is growing all the time. so much so that it may not be practical, but none the less...) i joke sometimes about having "lake of Fire" by the Meat Puppets played, a suggestion that my mother appreciates none too much) anyways, a definite for my funeral playlist would be "I've Seen It All" from Bjork's Selmasongs

Kryptic Centurion




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 17:34 -

Foo Fighters - My Hero

I had to get it in here first.

RB6K




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 19:52 -

If I die in a fire I would like "Burn Baby Burn" by Ash, or Disco Inferno. Or even if I was cremated that would be sufficient.

I'd like ironic songs such as Fame (I'm gonna live forever!!) and "Another one bites the dust"

In fact, I would hate to think any sad songs would be played at my funeral, I demand in advanced a song mocking the way I died, or at least parodying it. I would want a joke made of it, and everyone to spend the day laughing.


johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 20:55 -

well, i spend a good amount of time obsessing over my own mortality (kinda strange considering some of my past... not relevant to this thread). like i said "Lake of Fire" was a joke, but it's interesting to think about. i mean, if you died and needed some else to convey your thoughts about life to the people you loved and who loved you back (or who loved you in spite of what your life might have amounted to), what song(s) would you really want them to hear?

RB6K




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 21:03 -

I generally would want something humorous. "Always look on the bright side of life" etc, but perhaps not so cliche. In all the years between now and my death, I hope someone will release a song worthy of the feat of being my "death song" i used to have plenty of old songs I thought I would like eg "Gone Away" by the Offspring, but in hindsight they were all corny or shit choices!

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 21:30 -

i hear that. its funny how we can look back on albums (or anything really) we liked at one point in our lives and say, "good god, what was i thinking?!?"
also, calling an Offspring song "old" makes me feel old. thanks for that.

RB6K




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 21:51 -

Haha, well I don't really feel the Offspring song was old shit or corny, but they are certainly becoming an old band by todays terms. They have just released a new album, but these dudes are in their 30's now, they aren't really singing about teen/20's single fun life now, or at least they shouldn't be!

I would listen to Gone Away now if it wasn't 4am in the UK. But at my funeral? I definitely think "woah maybe not!"

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 21:58 -

well, i guess that's true. it just seems strange to hear someone talk about about a band like the offspring as an old band. i mean, i'm 32!

Grand Assault




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 22:04 -

The guys in The Offspring are in their mid-forties now. They peaked during the early nineties, that's almost two decades ago now!

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 22:18 -

really, all i know of them is radio. i didnt realize they were that old. i remember them having some hits in the nineties, but like i said never a big fan.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 22:27 -

getting back to the thread... i think i might also add Johhny Cash's cover of "In My Life"
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johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 8 23:39 -

hello? do you have a favorite funeral song?

RB6K




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Posted : 1 year, 3 months ago at Aug 9 5:52 -

Woah 40's?! Hah their lyrics and style need a re haulage fast. Singing like that in your 40's is laughable.

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 9 13:58 -

Cold-Crossfade

It's a pretty good song..and I've been known to be 'cold hearted'. But wether I am or not is a different story.

Ina the Fallen Angel




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 9 18:58 -

There coming to take me away Ha-haa~ Napoleon XIV

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 10 15:14 -

Hmmm....
That sounds like you Ina.

Also another good song would be 'If It All Ended Tomorrow' by John Cena

Deleted




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 11 8:28 -

You want to be forever associated with the memory of a singing wrestler?! Now that's bizaare.

robelanator




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 11 10:08 -

"Song for Strayhorn" from Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker, Live at Carnegie Hall. It's one of the most achingly pretty songs I know, but it still swings. It's a perfect mix of joy and sadness, longing for what's gone but appreciating what was had.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 11 15:00 -

a singing wrestler?!? i used to watch wrestling when i was a kid; i've never heard of a singing wrestler. strange.

robelanator, i listened to "song for strayhorn." very cool.

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 11 22:35 -

Yeah, it does seem kind of weird Voxy, but, the songs very good and I'm a huge wrestling fan. I'm not one to die normaly. I want to be remember in a weird way. I guess I'm just..well, weird.

Ina the Fallen Angel




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 11 23:57 -

I'd either Like There coming to take me away Ha-haa by Napoleon XIV or This is Halloween by Marilyn Manson. Something strange.

robelanator




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 12 8:55 -

mdklanica wrote:
robelanator, i listened to "song for strayhorn." very cool.


Glad you liked it. :)

The whole album is really pretty cool. And it's only $6 on Amazon right now!

Ventruss




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 12 13:24 -

The Anthem by good charlot

Charis




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 14 21:01 -

I'd say Keep Yourself Alive by Queen would be just perfect.

Deleted




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 11:13 -

I'm going to be creamated, since I cannot stand the thought of being put into the ground...(fear of being burried alive)
even if I'm dead..It would just kill me up in heaven to watch my body being slowly lowered into the ground...
my boyfriend, though, wants to have the song
"You've got a friend in me" from "Toy Sory" to be played at his funeral.

Vincent Valentine




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 15:05 -

Bethoven I'm gonna be buried while that's playing or maybe moonlight by mozart lol I want it to be a classical burial.

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 20:52 -

DaDaDa DUM....Da Da Da DUM
Ahhh, Bethoven...the deaf musical genious =P
haha nice choice, Illusion.

do they play music at creamations? If they do, I want
"A Hero Comes Home," from the Beowulf soundtrack(A movie I have watched a total of 13 times)
The ending title theme, not the one Wealthow sings in the movie.

Vincent Valentine




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 20:54 -

They do I went to my friends cremation last year they played the wind beneath my wings.

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 20:56 -

Do they do Funeral Pyres? DUDE I would not mind one bit to go out like that. When I die...Burn me on a boat =P

Vincent Valentine




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 20:57 -

no this isn't the viking age but i'd be more than happy to burn you.joke.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 21:38 -

okay, i should have known the conversation would take a turn for the morbid. leave it to the adolescents. j/k yall.

Vincent Valentine




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 21:39 -

Sorry anyways my other alternative is maybe something that will definately get people to cry.....hmm......any ideas?

Charis




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 21:52 -

Hah! Hey I said something funny, not morbid :)

I don't know why anyone would want to play something depressing at a funeral - I'd want to lighten the mood a little if it was mine.

Vincent Valentine




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 21:54 -

Hm maybe don't stop me now lol "Don't stop me now I'm having such a goodtime." Or maybe Celebrate good times come on."

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 21:58 -

okay, well if we're going light hearted, then i'm playin' "stayin' alive" -- BeeGees

Vincent Valentine




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 22:00 -

Oh the irony lolmaybe have them play it everytime they go through the graveyard.

Charis




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 22:28 -

You know, as long as we're on the Beegees, I Started a Joke would fit really well. I mean, it would be kind of depressing considering the context, but it works.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 15 23:46 -

charis, i really like that pre-disco BeeGees. My Pop listened to that stuff when i was younger. kinda grew up with it.

Charis




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 16 0:01 -

My family has an obsession with the Beegees as a whole - in fact, most of the music that I like is because I grew up with it. That stuff never really leaves you, I think.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 16 1:47 -

i agree. The BeeGees and M*A*S*H were passed down from my parents. if i stop in to see my parents in the evening, nine time outta ten, my dad will be sitting in his chair watching an episode of M*A*S*H. He can quote almost all of the episodes. I think I've seen all of them several times.
But the BeeGees, too. I really like "New York Mining Disaster 1941" I think thats the name.

Deleted




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 16 13:51 -

If were going for cheerful and mood lightening, how about
"If Youre Happy and You Know it"

Vincent Valentine




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 16 14:12 -

Maybe we are the champions? lol I love that song.
Maybe You are a pirate.

Ventruss




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 16 17:21 -

my other choices would be Sand Man by metalica and Kryptonight.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 16 17:36 -

i think i might want to have "Midnight in a Perfect World" by DJ Shadow. the music sets the tone.

Ventruss




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 21 17:10 -

yeah righ tnow i'm looking at Revolution Deagthsquad by i think dragonforce or avvenged seven fold.

Devious Phenomenon




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 21 17:31 -

A song to die to huh? That's a very interesting Idea right there... I've never thought about that... hmmm... I suppose it would either have to be something nice and slow and peaceful, or maybe something unusual and creepy (Like American Death Metal/Metal/Soft Metal music made by Japanese guys lol)


Oh wait, you mean playlists for funerals, I was thinking songs RIGHT when you die... I don't really know... Maybe a few sad tunes... don't know what... but I'll think about it...

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 24 13:03 -

i'd like Moonlight Densetsu to be played at my funeral. On piano.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 24 14:01 -

man, i'm really glad to see people still posting on this list. actually, i cant believe its still going.

Charis




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 24 17:36 -

I think it's common for people to think about songs that would play in situations like death or love or birth or something along those lines. At least...I do.

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 24 22:37 -

Yeah, that is true.

Naru Uchiha




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 24 22:54 -

who let the dogs out

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 25 21:44 -

who let the dogs out? come on now.

Naru Uchiha




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 26 18:47 -

hay i like it

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 26 20:57 -

just kidding

Naru Uchiha




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 27 17:52 -

ooooooo ^^

Ventruss




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 27 18:31 -

yeah strength of the world is good for a funarul or in a western for th ebad guys theme

Naru Uchiha




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 27 20:39 -

im going digital

silent killer




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 28 19:02 -

Tupac - I wonder if heaven's got a Ghetto
Pantera - Cemetary Gates
I would be very pleased if someone played either of those songs at my funeral.

Naru Uchiha




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 28 19:52 -

cool

Charis




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 29 21:12 -

I think I would cry harder if someone played Who Let The Dogs Out at a funeral.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 29 22:41 -

okay, seriously people. lets just try to imagine this. would you really want some of these songs played at your funeral. this is the last song, the last sounds anyone will ever hear from you. would you really want them to hear "who let the dogs out?" and dude, i like pantera a lot, but "cemetery gates" is a bit obvious. i'm not trying to "dog" your choices, but try thinking about the words to the songs.

silent killer




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 29 23:30 -

I'm probably interpreting the lyrics wrong, but they sound fine to me. Besides, my ears are ringing and throbbing so hard by the end of the song I stop caring.

I got a few more

Big Pun - Still not a Player
Big Pun - How we Roll
Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
Iron Butterfly - Inna godda da vida extended version(as a joke maybe)
The Eagles - Hotel California
LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali (in case I die somewhere other than california)

Grand Assault




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 30 5:38 -

I wish my family were rocking enough to let me play:

Rage Against the Machine - The Ghost of Tom Joad

at my funeral, but I don't want to be remembered as someone who is selfish! Seriously, a funeral is all about you, technically, but there's no way you can enjoy it. I'd definitely go for something a bit more subdued. I might force out the heartbreak by going for some Simon and Garfunkel - Sound of Silence, just so everyone remembers how great I was through a tsunami of tears!

If I could get away with it, I'd try for Radiohead - Reckoner too.

Ventruss




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Aug 30 12:17 -

Yeah for what its worth or as its also known look what's going dow would be good.

Naru Uchiha




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 1 14:00 -

run around

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 1 18:51 -

Let it be-Beatles
Cold-Crossfade
Hound Dog-Elvis Presely
When you were young-The Killers

Xeil




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 1 19:24 -

100 Years to Live - Five for Fighting
A Tout Le Monde - Megadeth

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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 6 17:22 -

sounds awkward, but i am 100% in to beethoven, bach, & much more classical music. ^-^"
haha i love violin partita 3. ^//^"
i would love that to also be played at my funeral..

troopper




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Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago at Sep 6 17:57 -

the kkk took my baby away

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Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago at Sep 19 15:13 -

when i die, if i die, the song im going to play at my funeral would be i will survive, (lol)

Deleted




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Posted : 1 year, 1 month ago at Sep 28 16:34 -

lol nice golnax, very nice.hahah ^-^

Peyton




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Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 10 17:08 -

One, by Metallica.

Devious Phenomenon




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Posted : 7 months ago at Apr 10 17:22 -

Song to die to huh... Hmmm...
Maybe Completely, by Art of Dying...

For comedic purposes, if for some reason I die by spontaneous combustion, I'dlove to have Pardon Me by Incubus LOL

Time is RUnning Out by Muse...

Leave out all the rest by Linkin Park

Let me go by Three Doors Down

Cold, by Crossfade(Or Breaking Benjamin)

At My funeral by Sixx AM

Truthfully... I don't want them to play a bunch of depressing bullshit at my funeral so I can make people depressed, I want them to move on ASAP and not dwell on my death, Completely, just cuz I like that song :P, Pardon me is only if I combust, but that's cuz it'd be a last sick humorous joke by me, Time is Running Out would probably be the most depressing, Leave Out All The Rest would just be for them to remember me well and forget my wrongdoings... Let Me Go, the message isn't the song, but the title, just Let Me Go and don't dwell on it... Cold, same reason as Tori, I'm rather cold sometimes, in both ways(temperature and personality) and also because, as you've seen, I have a sick sense of humor, At My Funeral basically tells everyone not to cry, life is beautiful, and it ends beautifully too, so don't be depressed about it...

Deleted




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Posted : 6 months, 1 week ago at May 2 2:27 -

"When The Musics Over" THE DOORS

LUV_BUG




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Posted : 6 months ago at May 5 13:43 -

omg lame

Homicidal Rave




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Posted : 6 months ago at May 5 20:06 -

<.<

I'd want a song that made people laugh, like "Ebay" by Weird Al. It'd make people laugh, and I don't want ANYONE crying at my funeral. I personally think it'd be shameful if people cried over me.

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Posted : 6 months ago at May 6 13:52 -

I'd want Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance. If you've never heard it it's about living and not being afraid of whats next. Hence the lyrics "I am not afraid to keep on livin', I am not afraid to walk this world alone." I'd also want the people that I love to keep living their lives and look the world in the face. "Honey if you stay I'll be forgiving, nothing you can say can stop me going home."

Artemis Panthar




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Posted : 6 months ago at May 6 15:50 -

I honestly don't have much of a preference. Funerals are for the living and I'd like for whomever I'm survived by to choose a song that helps their grieving process.

Vincent Valentine




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Posted : 6 months ago at May 6 15:50 -

I want people to cry at my funeral to baw their bloody eyes out.
Maybe something sad.... hmm I'll give it some thought.

Ventruss




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Posted : 6 months ago at May 7 21:52 -

Inside the Fire~Disturbed.

ToniJJJ




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Posted : 6 months ago at May 8 10:56 -

Freebird by Lynyrd Skynyrd or Highway to Hell by AC/DC.

johnny obelisk




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Posted : 5 months, 4 weeks ago at May 12 14:25 -

dudes, i can't believe this thread is still going. wow!

William




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Posted : 5 months, 4 weeks ago at May 12 15:23 -

any way to die, any at all, i'm pro-My Curse.

edwardsheroin




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Posted : 5 months ago at Jun 4 16:55 -

Sugababes-Too lost in you...and maybe die in my sleep:D

casualties




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Posted : 4 months, 2 weeks ago at Jun 23 16:00 -

Seize the day-A7X

Melinda




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Posted : 2 months, 3 weeks ago at Aug 18 9:41 -

Band of Horses - The end's not near
Mazzy Star - In to Dust
Nina Simone- Feeling good

Deleted




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Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 18 19:01 -

I'd die to something by Britney Spears.
Like My Prerogative. Just the words in it I guess. Haa..

Or!
Pour Some Sugar on Me by Def Leppard, or Photograph.

eriklars21




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Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 19 7:51 -

I'd have to go with Famous Last Words by My Chemical Romance too.It's a great song and seems appropriate.

green coffee

kona coffee

Opium




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Posted : 2 months, 2 weeks ago at Aug 21 6:45 -

placebo - black eyed

Kaz




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Posted : 1 month, 1 week ago at Sep 24 20:51 -

id have to agree with casualties and with eriklars21 both very good songs

Balthor12




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Posted : 1 month, 1 week ago at Sep 28 23:08 -

Until the day i die.This is a good song..

Regards

Balthor

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John




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Posted : 1 month ago at Oct 2 17:36 -

Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell. I want it to be like this.

glambert2516




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Posted : 4 weeks, 1 day ago at Oct 8 18:46 -

"Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen. ;)

mia




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Posted : 4 weeks, 1 day ago at Oct 9 7:51 -

ego you or knights in white satin by Declan Galbraith;)
is the 1!!