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'End of life' songs - is yours on the list?

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MissInterpreted Wed 09-Oct-24 13:56:46

Marie Curie has published a top ten list of the songs people listen to in their last moments. Is yours among them? Can't say I'd want my last moments to be listening to any of them, but each to their own...
www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-13940649/The-ten-songs-chosen-dying-people-final-moments.html

Aveline Tue 15-Oct-24 20:57:49

👍

MissAdventure Tue 15-Oct-24 20:47:36

That sounds very agreeable. smile

That's us sorted then.

Aveline Tue 15-Oct-24 20:14:40

Perhaps a small chamber orchestra in the corner MissAdventure and you could lie in your four poster surrounded by banks of flowers and sobbing family members and old retainers.

MissAdventure Tue 15-Oct-24 18:07:55

I've heard a new song I really like.
It's called Into The Mystic, and I think it's by Van Morrison (who I've never listened to before)

I'll be in and out of my death bed like a fiddlers elbow at this rate.

ReadyMeals Tue 15-Oct-24 18:00:51

Ride the River by JJ Cale for me

Lydie45 Sun 13-Oct-24 23:11:21

My husband didn’t have any music playing when he died but he did pick the music for his funeral. He was part of a ukulele band and they played his favourite tune Irish Rover as his coffin came into the church and Up Up and Away as he left.

Aveline Sat 12-Oct-24 20:02:52

Excellent MissAdventure! 🎶

PamelaJ1 Sat 12-Oct-24 18:40:47

Imagine there’s no Heaven.
I’ve always thought that this is it and that’s OK by me.

MissAdventure Sat 12-Oct-24 18:37:22

A kind of skiffle style?

MissAdventure Sat 12-Oct-24 18:36:38

Ooh, my old man restores cars, he makes them spic and span.
So if anyone can do your car, I know a man who can!

Aveline Sat 12-Oct-24 18:27:50

I'd rather it was something more accurate. You might have to compose it yourself , 'My old man restores vintage cars'? Maybe on a washboard?

MissAdventure Sat 12-Oct-24 15:32:14

grin
I expect I could play the spoons, too.

Would you mind "My old man's a dustman" as your swansong?

Aveline Sat 12-Oct-24 15:24:09

MissAdventure I'd always seen you as more of a comb and paper maestro

MissAdventure Sat 12-Oct-24 13:07:31

grin
How funny.
Could you let me know when you feel a bit under the weather, so I can practice a bit?

Aveline Sat 12-Oct-24 06:40:07

MissAdventure- go on then. You can follow me round the shops tootling away 😂

MissAdventure Fri 11-Oct-24 17:29:19

Oh, and I was all set to come and play the recorder and sing "pease pudding hot" to you.

Aveline Fri 11-Oct-24 12:27:10

I don't want any particular accompaniment to my slipping away just as I don't need a sound track to my life.

Ilovedogs22 Fri 11-Oct-24 11:57:58

Gillycats

A Place in the Sun by Stevie Wonder and Faith of the Heart by Russel Watson.

A fab choice Gillycats🐱, I'd forgotten about the wonderful Stevie Wonder song.

EllieRose Fri 11-Oct-24 07:04:57

If I was dying, Gabriel's Oboe by Morricone played by Hauser. At my funeral Benedictus from The Armed Man by Carl Jenkins, maybe the Morricone again, and Bob Marley, Everything's Gonna Be Alright as a finale.

sazz1 Fri 11-Oct-24 00:00:33

Pretty woman Roy Orbison for my last song
And Ring of Fire at the cremation lolol

Gillycats Thu 10-Oct-24 22:39:26

A Place in the Sun by Stevie Wonder and Faith of the Heart by Russel Watson.

dustyangel Thu 10-Oct-24 20:39:25

Mamas and Papas, Dream a little Dream of me. Say Nightie Night and kiss me, say Nightie Night and say that you’ll miss me.

rubysong Thu 10-Oct-24 20:09:26

'Sleep on Beloved', by the Watersons.

Babs03 Thu 10-Oct-24 19:42:03

If I am exiting this world rather than choosing music for my funeral I think I would go with a instrumental piece, either Albatross by Fleetwood Mac or Allegri's Miserere, the latter has such haunting Soprano pieces, best sung by young choir boys, perhaps will have both, after all I am popping my clogs.

SallyatBaytree Thu 10-Oct-24 19:34:03

Spirit in the Sky!