That’s always changing, depending on how I think I’m going to die. At the moment, I’d like my own song Away from the Sky at my funeral.
The Guardian, Honest playlist, The Guardian, 29 May 2023 source ↗
The question
What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Others on this question
View all 178 →
Vicky McClure
English actress
Definitely a Carpenters track.
Cynthia Nixon
American actress and politician
I Happen To Like New York: I tell people all the time, so they will be sure not to forget.
Sara Pascoe
English comedian, presenter, writer
Nothing – I don’t like music. I want my funeral to be uncomfortably quiet.
Philippa Perry
Psychotherapist and author
One written in 2057.
More from Rickie Lee Jones
View profile →I just wait. I accept that I might not write anymore. I accept that life changes and that maybe it’s not the end of the world even if it feels like it. That was a thing going on about 15 years ago with me. I don’t really feel that way anymore, but when it was happening it was hard. It feels like it might never come again, and then you just accept it.
More on death & what remains
- How would you want people to remember you? 213 answers
- How close have you come to dying? 209 answers
- If you had only one day left, how would you spend it — and what would you deliberately avoid? 54 answers
- What do you believe happens when we die? 50 answers
- What would you most want to leave your children? 44 answers
- What kind of death would you consider a good one? 43 answers
Also answered this
Laura Mvula, Billy Ocean, Sananda Maitreya, Shaun Ryder, Ronnie Wood, Viv Albertine
Search the directory for somebody in particular.
Explore further
- All death & what remains questions
- The The Q&A questionnaire — 25 questions from the same format
- Explore the archive — by field, age, era, and subject