Author Topic: Music for your funeral  (Read 10791 times)

rogerzilla

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #25 on: 24 March, 2022, 11:03:06 am »
If it's not a cremation, Waiting For The Worms by Pink Floyd?  Not the best song on The Wall, though.
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Mr Larrington

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #26 on: 24 March, 2022, 11:09:42 am »
Or just Worms by The Pogues.  “Your brains come tumbling down your snout”.  Lovely!
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IanDG

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #27 on: 24 March, 2022, 12:07:56 pm »
1. Up the Country - Canned Heat
2. Mr Tambourine Man - Bob Dylan
3. All that Way For This - Oysterband

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=1XuVfIDbb8g&feature=share

PaulF

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #28 on: 24 March, 2022, 12:14:39 pm »
Blatantly stealing from “The Big Chill” I’d go out to “You can’t always get what you want “

Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #29 on: 24 March, 2022, 12:24:50 pm »
Not sure I have three currently. Or what order but I'd have The long way home by The magic Theatre and Do you realise bybthe flaming lips.

T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #30 on: 24 March, 2022, 01:55:23 pm »
Haven't thought about coming in or going out, but as the coffin disappears I want Another One Bites The Dust.
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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #31 on: 20 April, 2022, 05:51:18 pm »
Or just Worms by The Pogues.  “Your brains come tumbling down your snout”.  Lovely!

That sounds like a song I know as The Hearse Song. I think of it as by Harley Poe, but now I look it up it seems to have a venerable history https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hearse_Song

My three at the moment are:
Look on down from the bridge - Mazzy Star
Saudade - Love and Rockets (for the contemplating bit)
I'd be tempted by the Hearse Song for the way out, but Something's got a hold of my heart - Marc Almond and Gene Pitney might be a better choice. Especially if they burn me.

Jaded

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #32 on: 20 April, 2022, 06:01:07 pm »
One of my songs would be In the Garden - Van Morrison.

Hopefully it will be raining.
It is simpler than it looks.

IanDG

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #33 on: 20 April, 2022, 06:02:50 pm »
One of my songs would be In the Garden - Van Morrison.

Hopefully it will be raining.

That was his last good album (IMO)

T42

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #34 on: 21 April, 2022, 08:18:10 am »
Not musical at all, but the question in my mind is whether they cremate you in that overpriced coffin or whip you out of it and return it to the undertaker for resale.  "Only one owner, old bloke who only used it once. It's still got that new-coffin smell."

 
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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #35 on: 21 April, 2022, 11:52:06 am »
One of my songs would be In the Garden - Van Morrison.

Hopefully it will be raining.
Into The Mystic by Grumpy Van would also be a good one.

You Can Close Your Eyes by James Taylor would have to be up there for me.

Beardy

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #36 on: 21 April, 2022, 02:07:35 pm »
As I don’t want anyone wasting money on a funeral for me, I have no opinion on music for the same. I’m advocating direct disposal, as an alternative to just bunging my body in the wheelie bin which would be my preferred option.

I did, however, find some amusement at the idea of having the Thunderbirds theme being played as the curtains opened and the coffin withdrawn.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #37 on: 22 April, 2022, 07:38:57 am »
Not musical at all, but the question in my mind is whether they cremate you in that overpriced coffin or whip you out of it and return it to the undertaker for resale.  "Only one owner, old bloke who only used it once. It's still got that new-coffin smell."
Under UK law, cremation has to be in the same sealed coffin as in which the body is delivered to the crematorium.

I remember an episode of Taggart (back in the Mark McManus days) when a dodgy undertaker's assistant was disposing of body parts from murders by popping the odd arm or leg in the coffin with a normal "customer".  That would probably work.
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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #38 on: 22 April, 2022, 07:56:18 am »
I’m concerned at the consideration you’ve given to it.

rogerzilla

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #39 on: 22 April, 2022, 08:20:48 am »
I’m concerned at the consideration you’ve given to it.
Torsos are really difficult  :-\
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

IanDG

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #40 on: 22 April, 2022, 08:40:09 am »
I’m concerned at the consideration you’ve given to it.
Torsos are really difficult  :-\

Not with the correct mortuary tools.

citoyen

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #41 on: 22 April, 2022, 08:54:28 am »
Not musical at all, but the question in my mind is whether they cremate you in that overpriced coffin or whip you out of it and return it to the undertaker for resale.  "Only one owner, old bloke who only used it once. It's still got that new-coffin smell."

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has had this thought. Coffins are a phenomenal waste of money. It’s a major racket.

My wife’s cousin was cremated in a wicker coffin. That makes a lot more sense to me. It was still ridiculously expensive for what it is though.
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Jaded

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #42 on: 22 April, 2022, 08:59:27 am »
I’m concerned at the consideration you’ve given to it.
Torsos are really difficult  :-\

Not with the correct mortuary tools.

It's the spray and splatter that is the problem.
It is simpler than it looks.

Beardy

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #43 on: 22 April, 2022, 09:22:10 am »
I’m glad I’m not the only one who has had this thought. Coffins are a phenomenal waste of money. It’s a major racket.

My wife’s cousin was cremated in a wicker coffin. That makes a lot more sense to me. It was still ridiculously expensive for what it is though.
One of my drinking buddies is an undertaker, which is just as well because given his business acumen he’d have gone bankrupt a long time ago in any other business.

One think I remembered that he said about wicker coffins is that they are delivered to him in large reinforced cardboard boxes due to their flimsy nature. Somewhat ironic given that many people choose them because they are perceived as a green alternative.
For every complex problem in the world, there is a simple and easily understood solution that’s wrong.

Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #44 on: 22 April, 2022, 09:27:31 am »
We asked (as per her wishes) for a cardboard coffin for my mother, for cremation. She didn't want us spending unneccesarily on the funeral.  It would have been more expensive than a veneered chipboard one. We got some BS about approvals for incineration, I think it was gouging the cost / environmentally conscious.
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rogerzilla

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #45 on: 22 April, 2022, 10:20:33 am »
Not musical at all, but the question in my mind is whether they cremate you in that overpriced coffin or whip you out of it and return it to the undertaker for resale.  "Only one owner, old bloke who only used it once. It's still got that new-coffin smell."

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has had this thought. Coffins are a phenomenal waste of money. It’s a major racket.

My wife’s cousin was cremated in a wicker coffin. That makes a lot more sense to me. It was still ridiculously expensive for what it is though.
On IanDG's former island, all non-residents are cremated in a wicker coffin.  Of sorts.
Hard work sometimes pays off in the end, but laziness ALWAYS pays off NOW.

Mr Larrington

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #46 on: 22 April, 2022, 11:08:21 am »
I’m concerned at the consideration you’ve given to it.
Torsos are really difficult  :-\

Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".
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IanDG

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #47 on: 22 April, 2022, 11:12:29 am »
Not musical at all, but the question in my mind is whether they cremate you in that overpriced coffin or whip you out of it and return it to the undertaker for resale.  "Only one owner, old bloke who only used it once. It's still got that new-coffin smell."

I’m glad I’m not the only one who has had this thought. Coffins are a phenomenal waste of money. It’s a major racket.

My wife’s cousin was cremated in a wicker coffin. That makes a lot more sense to me. It was still ridiculously expensive for what it is though.
On IanDG's former island, all non-residents are cremated in a wicker coffin.  Of sorts.

 ;D  ;D  ;D

All burial, Presbyterian religion prohibits cremation. No crematorium on the island.



IanDG

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #48 on: 22 April, 2022, 11:13:46 am »
I’m concerned at the consideration you’ve given to it.
Torsos are really difficult  :-\

Apparently the best thing to do is cut up a corpse into six pieces and pile it all together. And when you got your six pieces, you gotta get rid of them, because it's no good leaving it in the deep freeze for your mum to discover, now is it? Then I hear the best thing to do is feed them to pigs. You got to starve the pigs for a few days, then the sight of a chopped-up body will look like curry to a pisshead. You gotta shave the heads of your victims, and pull the teeth out for the sake of the piggies' digestion. You could do this afterwards, of course, but you don't want to go sievin' through pig shit, now do you? They will go through bone like butter. You need at least sixteen pigs to finish the job in one sitting, so be wary of any man who keeps a pig farm. They will go through a body that weighs 200 pounds in about eight minutes. That means that a single pig can consume two pounds of uncooked flesh every minute. Hence the expression, "as greedy as a pig".

 :o  ;D

Mr Larrington

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Re: Music for your funeral
« Reply #49 on: 22 April, 2022, 11:22:48 am »
Quoting Alan Ford as Brick Top in Snatch.
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