What song would you like played at your funeral?

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Recorded Rick Astley said elsewhere, not written here
I’d like to go all melodramatic and have Vide cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy from Kingdom Of Heaven. It’s also in another Ridley Scott movie, Hannibal. It’s an operatic piece and absolutely amazing. Obviously Ridley Scott thinks so, too..

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Sananda Maitreya Singer and songwriter
As a native-derived person, we don’t believe in death. Death is a western, fear-based concept. We believe that an eternal spirit is housed into a temporary vehicle, and when that vehicle no longer becomes tenable to inhabit, we just move on. If I had to play music, I’d insist on Beethoven’s Triple Concerto.
Recorded The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 26 October 2025 source ↗

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Question If you had only one day left to live, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid doing? Death & what remains
I think I’d just like to be chilling out really, so it’s like real summer family holidays where the most important things to decide are what are you going to have for breakfast, what are you going to have for lunch, what beach are you going to, and what are you going to have for dinner.
Recorded Clash, Swan Song, 21 December 2016 source ↗

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