The last two funerals I went to with music focussed on "It's So Hard To Say Goodbye" which now gets me so badly I choke up just typing the title.
Might be a black thing, or an American thing, but I'd consider it a pretty obvious choice.
This here's a recipe for unpleasantness.
Mal ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 47: My Brilliance Is Wasted On You People
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2006 7:31:09 am PDT #1803 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Steph L. - Oct 03, 2006 7:32:18 am PDT #1804 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
We had Danny Boy played at my (very Irish) grandfather's graveside service. By a bagpiper.
If there had been any dry eyes left before he started playing, there damn well weren't afterward.
juliana - Oct 03, 2006 7:34:33 am PDT #1805 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
"It's So Hard To Say Goodbye" which now gets me so badly I choke up just typing the title.
We had Danny Boy played at my (very Irish) grandfather's graveside service. By a bagpiper.
Those two and "Amazing Grace" on bagpipes will get me every single time.
Strega - Oct 03, 2006 7:37:45 am PDT #1806 of 10001
"With Or Without You" is where I had to stifle my horrified laughter.
tommyrot - Oct 03, 2006 7:38:00 am PDT #1807 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
At my funeral I want them to play "Milkshake" as performed by the Jingle Cats.
Nilly - Oct 03, 2006 7:38:05 am PDT #1808 of 10001
Swouncing
signed, Corrupted by the Buffistas
The most corruption I got from b.org was learning to say that I'm so vanilla that the other ice-creams callibrate themselves according to me. No worries.
Religious Jewish funerals are pretty strict in content, with no singing. I couldn't share the names of the songs in some of the non-strict funerals I attended, because they're all Hebrew songs none of you would probably be able to recognize.
Jesse - Oct 03, 2006 7:40:31 am PDT #1809 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Wait, that list is the songs that people would want at their own funerals, right? That makes the jackassery better, somehow.
Steph L. - Oct 03, 2006 7:41:26 am PDT #1810 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
"With Or Without You" is where I had to stifle my horrified laughter.
I was cracking up at "Every Breath You Take." Yes, I'll be stalking you even from BEYOND THE GRAVE....
Typo Boy - Oct 03, 2006 7:41:58 am PDT #1811 of 10001
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
Year ago at the memorial for a favorite granduncle (who had been cremated) they played "Smoke gets in your eyes".
And a comment from the liberal blogger Ezra Klein: ( [link]
If Karl Marx had written Nancy Drew, Veronica Mars would be the result.
§ ita § - Oct 03, 2006 7:44:45 am PDT #1812 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nilly, as mentioned a few times last month, I attended my first Jewish festival. I was exposed to the tradition of attendees shoveling dirt onto the coffin.
Wow. I feel kind shaky thinking about it. It was my first closed-casket funeral. There's something chilling about an open casket, but it really hammered home the finality of the thing.
Hearing the dirt hit the coffin, the hollow thump? Worked just as well, and just as chillingly. I was not expecting that.