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Posted Last Week by Hapi, hippo #5
 .. I thought about Stairway to Heaven ... but  Highway to Hell would raise far less sarcastic remarks
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Posted Last Week by toybox - entrusting myself to chance
Not sure I really see what 'sermony' is, but here we go --
Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais - Serge Gainsbourg
Comme j'ai mal - Mylène Farmer
Orphée nonante-huit - HF. Thiéfaine
Champagne - Jacques Higelin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--BTGqJmhow
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hex3HV5s97Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZeVTANs01Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCw201tKUDY
Will work on an English funeral when I have time 
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Posted Last Week by Rudest Elf
Think I'll ditch 'Sympathy for the Devil' and replace it with:
"Whistlin' Past The Graveyard" - Tom Waits. After all, it is my funeral.
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Posted Last Week by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
@Mrs Zen:
I suppose 'Spam and Onions' and 'What Larks!' are fine if you have an abbey booked. I was assuming a local council in-out job.
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Posted Last Week by Mrs Zen - has had enough
Abbey, schabbey.
I rather liked Jeremy Hardy's comment that he wanted to be scattered when he died. Not cremated. Just scattered.
Me, I want to go out with a bang: http://www.heavensabovefireworks.com/
Tacky, I know, but somehow very Me.
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Posted Last Week by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
Actually...I wonder how I go about arranging to be cut up live on Channel 4. 'Very dignified.'
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Posted Last Week by anne-o-mally
Ed, I love this thread, (loving Max Romeo & The Beta Band btw) but there are too many to choose from at the minute. Currently, my songs are:
Viðrar Vel Til Loftárása - Sigur Rós
Finished Symphony (Soundtrack Edit) - Hybrid - (the orchestral version)
Duel - Propaganda
Whistlin' Past the Graveyard - Tom Waits
Although Rudest Elf (you wee  ye) had changed to this last song, this is the only definite on my list - the rest are subject to change with time & events. But I do wonder how the minister is going to take
 ...a mean mother-hubbard... 
He he he - joy
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Posted Last Week by Ivan the Terribly Average
Interesting thread, this. My choice of funeral songs varies from moment to moment, not just from time to time, so this is what I've come up with right now.
I think it would be fun to start with This Mortal Coil's 'Another Day' - spookily charming lyrics by Elizabeth Fraser.
At some point during the show there will be something by Lisa Gerrard - either in Dead Can Dance or solo, it doesn't really matter - and as she doesn't sing in any known language it doesn't really matter which track as long as there's lots of spooky low deep notes sustained longer than one would think possible.
Then I quite fancy Arvo Pärt's Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten.  Three strands of music all coming to a final point of unity as a bell slowly chimes... If that doesn't get people in the mood, I don't know what will.
And finally - Wuthering Heights, as done by the Puppini Sisters, for no good reason except that it's light and a little silly, but still sung from the point of view of a ghost. 
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Posted Last Week by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
<aside>
Ivan meant This Mortal Coil's cover of Roy Harper's 'Another Day'. It was also covered by Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel in a TV special.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6vW2uWsro0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKAOu37oMkM&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqgWW2jEOIo&feature=related
Hmm. Speaking of This Mortal Coil...If my Beta Band choice weren't so perfect as outro music ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsbR2dEmHGc especially 4:10ish onwards), then my choice would have been a cover of a This Mortal Coil cover of a Tim Buckley:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjk2L5BFq1A
Very  .
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Posted Last Week by Beatrice.
The only one I'm sure of is Gershwin's "I'll build a stairway to paradise", but I shall consider a few more options.
Love that fireworks idea, Ben, put me down (er...up...) for one of those! 
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Posted Last Week by Christopher
I want my ashes scattered on Felixstowe beach. Hopefully they won't end up like Donny's at the end of The Big Lebowski.
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Posted Last Week by Br dragonqueen - eternally free and forever untamed; weredoctor; SExpert; Honorary Flogstress... RIP Mum, I miss you.
How and where to scatter ashes can be quite tricky.
Not far from my late parents' home village there is a mountain with an old and rather well known ski resort. Quite a lot of people visiting that area during life expresses a wish to have their ashes spread from the top of that mountain, and usually permission is granted. However, the inhabitants of the valley below are less amused of having their laundry, bushes etc. covered with somebody's ashes...
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Posted Last Week by Edward the Bonobo - andafewmore
They should just count themselves lucky they don't live in Runcorn.
Mind you...so should we all. Apart from any of us who *do* live in Runcorn, obviously.
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Posted Last Week by urchinvic - the budgies are restless
Can only think of one I'd really like.
"Tonight We Fly" (though it MUST be the live version) by The Divine Comedy. If those last few lines don't send shivers.....
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Posted Last Week by Rudest Elf
I think my first two selections were a too frivolous for such a sad occasion, so I'll replace them with:
Long Shot Kick de Bucket - The Pioneers http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyeG5Vp5j00&feature=related
Rudy's Dead - Little Grants and Eddie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_38VyfE2Ng
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