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What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
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Rupert Graves
English actor
I don’t care as long as everyone knows the words and joins in.
Suggs
Singer
Is That All There Is? by Peggy Lee. I find it uplifting, because we all suffer these things in life. Will my funeral be happy or sad? Depends who you’re talking to. Some people will be happy. A couple will be sad. But I’d like a jolly affair.
Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Kiss And Say Goodbye by the Manhattans.
Nicola Walker
British actress
Funerals are for the people left behind, so I don’t mind.
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