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I am not thinking about dying yet.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 15 July 2017 source ↗
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What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
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John Waters
American filmmaker
Don't Play Me Cheap, sung by Tina Turner when she was still with Ike.
Rupert Graves
English actor
I don’t care as long as everyone knows the words and joins in.
Richard Osman
English TV presenter and writer
The Man Comes Around by Johnny Cash, or the theme tune to Pointless.
Chris Froome
British cyclist
Scatterlings Of Africa, by Johnny Clegg.
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Plenty of matches got away, but there’s nothing I can do about it, so why worry?
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