Last Requests?

[Drisgirl]

This is NOT morbid.
I have to revise my will on Tuesday.
I dont want the people left behind with the arduous task of having to second guess what I would have liked played or said at my funeral.
I am struggling as i dont want a religious send-off -I want a celebration of what had been my life with the people who cared for me.
Dilemna is the music.

My swansong -which is Sweet Caroline (I know -lol) but it would make people smile -appropriate?

Last request -Paulo Nuttini -lyrics are brill -but when I am off to the kiln do I want people to lay down beside me?

Would like a nice poem -but not the usual W.H Auden one -which I love -so what ?

Bay City Rollers - Shang a Lang --again -appropriate?

I am struggling ATM -any suggestions or what would you have?

[gelda]

I've told my sister I want Wish me luck as you wave me goodbye by Vera Lynne ( do any of you oldies remember it )

[bigmamma]

That poem Bathsheba .......tears , yes , but the words are so .....just lovely xxxxxx

[Ethel]

Wish me luck would be perfect. :)

[Bathsheba]

Yes mamma - I love it too! xx

[tiggerblue10]

I'm not quite an oldie Gelda (37) but I've just youtubed it and it sounds familiar. Here you go:

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

[gelda]

Thanks Tigger, that was great, I'll show it to my sister who can't remember it.

[Drisgirl]

That was fantastic-a real tear jerker -well dont want them laughing ALL the time lol !!!

O -what a diemna now -I had some picked but now gonna have to revise I think -plus I forgot about Otis -Sitting on the Dock of the bay -my all time fave.Want a singer in the crem -dont want someone fiddling with a CD player.
O jings the poems were easy -the epitaph done and dusted -'Nothing's so loyal as Love' -taken from part of Wyatt Earps (think -read so many0 although it was a close call between that and Bette Davis one -'She did it the hard way' lol

[Drisgirl]

o BTW -I have deffo gone for Baths poem -so apt and kinda upbeat - very moving -I have have shed a few tears along with the tears of laughter -well best to face up to it -get it done and thats that out the way.

[Bathsheba]

I'm glad you like it Dris. Gonna mssg you on FB x

[Drisgirl]

O good xxx

[wolf63]

"Another one bites the dust" by Queen

"One more angel in heaven" from Joseph

"I'm on the highway to hell" by AC/DC

"Stand me up by the jukebox when I die" by ???

In our family it is also obligatory to have some sort of argument, fight or punch-up. :-)

[tiggerblue10]

Lol @ Wolf

Gelda, since I found the wish me luck song I can't stop playing it. Its lovely :-)

[jno]

I'd never thought of prescribing my own funeral music etc. Funerals are to comfort the bereaved, not to give the dead some posthumous pleasure, after all. Anything anyone wants to say or play at mine is fine by me, I won't be listening. I won't even be aware that nobody has turned up and I'm being buried in a communal grave by the parish.

[Ethel]

jno - I'm not having a funeral service of any description.

My cardboard coffin will be taken from the morgue to the crematoria and burned at a convenient time.

There will just be a knees up in the publ

[jno]

well, I'm not going to refuse a funeral in advance either, Ethel. It's for survivors, if any, to do whatever cheers them up the most. This may well involve placing my head on a pikestaff on London Bridge; I don't care.

[arwenant]

regarding a poem, maybe just write something yourself, it'd mean more to your friends and family, as you could address events, people in your life etc...

[harryshaw]

meet you there mate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?vA2yLnVIrjf8&feature=related

HI DRISS

[shanx]

mine would be as they were leaving , george micheal , wake me up before you go go .

[curiosity]

I've thought it would be good at the point where the velvet curtain electronically closes and the sound of the conveyor belt kicks in to have "bibbety bobbetty boo" play.
I think it's good to organise all this, however I also see jno's point. And that I have witnessed part of the initial grieving process many times being helped by organising a good send off, as your mourners perceive, that you would like.