Right, let's do it. What are you having for your funeral?

Russell can be Judy (wig mandatory)
My family can be the extras

The priest can have a metal triangle to do the
'clang clang clang'
'ding ding ding'

I want those buggers to cry at mine!!!!!!!

So I want my absolute favourite of all time "Sunday" and "Un belle de vit" from Madama Butterfly!!!!!!!!!

My mum always said she wanted the hokey cokey, when she unexpectedly died though, the vicar wouldn't let us have it!!!

I've taken this a bit more seriously than everyone else haha

Going in: either
When Your Feet Don't Touch The Ground
OR
Neverland reprise (purely for the lyrics:

Shooting stars
New shapes and sizes
Wakenings and new surprises
Opening my eyes to something happening)
from Finding Neverland

Coming out: Kerry Ellis' acoustic version of Defying Gravity.

Soppy I know, but I just love both sets of music and DG is my go-to song.

Hmmm, today I'm thinking "Burn, Baby, Burn".

You have reminded me. So tourtured am I by this question that although a signed copy of my will exists, the complete version isyet to be written and deposited with the solicitors.

Possibles
As guests gather
Either Seigfrieds Funeral March or Tom Buckley Dolphins

for a contemplative moment
Either Ry Cooder Maria Elena or the Humming Chorus from Madame Butterfly

But definately I want to go out to this.

Sing it Mildred...


Well, I think we ought to talk about death.
Old people do, you know, and so far we've avoided any mention of it.
So now I'd like to sing this death song.
Don't worry, it's not your ordinary death song. Lorraine...?

When a person dies, he's put in the ground
And his friends and relatives gather around
And he gets a little stone and he gets a little mound
Where the ivy likes to grow.
Tell me, how many graves have you seen so far?
When you're riding by in your motor-car,
You can spot where all dead people are,
But here is what I'm dying to know:

Where does an elephant go?
Where does an elephant go?
When an elephant gets so old and grey
That the poor thing's got to be put away,
Well, if somebody knows, won't somebody say
Where does an elephant go?
Where does an elephant go?
Now, when Hannibal's elephants made that track
Way over the Alps to the Roman sack,
Surely one of them had a heart attack,
Where did that elephant go?

When the Pharaohs roamed in a Biblical land
To keep those Nubians well in hand,
There were lots of elephants, I understand,
Everywhere you'd go.
There've been elephants came from Kipling's pen,
There've been elephants here since God knows when,
So a hell of a lot must have died since then,
And here is what I'm longing to know:

Where does an elephant go?
Where does an elephant go?
When a Pharaoh finally met his doom,
They would lay him out in a swanky tomb,
But an elephant takes so damn much room,
Where does an elephant go?



"Where did the elephant go?
Where did the elephant go?"
When the coffin's shut and the lid is firm,
A man's consigned to the pine and worm,
But what kind of box fits a pachyderm?
Where does an elephant go?
When an elephant sees his final dawn,
When an elephant's final breath is drawn,
It's a cinch there ain't no Forest Lawn --
Lorraine, think about that next time you're tickling
the ivories!
Where does an elephant --
Where does an elephant --
Where does an elephant --
Where does an elephant go?




(sorry about the poor quality the orginal has been deleted, but its a great perfomance.)

I'm having a cremation and when the curtains have closed, they're opening and closing again for an encore!

Right now, at my stage of life and personal development, it would have to be 'Move On' from Sunday in the Park with George, a motto which has stuck with me for many years m now.

I hope to have my favourite hymn Great is thy Faithfulness at the start. At the end I want to go out to a really rousing version of The Best of Times from La Cage aux Folles.

Does this make me sound strange?

Disco Inferno is exactly what I have told my wife I would want!

Great thread!
Overture from Phantom
Hand me the wine and the dice from Aspects
Goodbyeeee from 'Oh what a lovely war'

Sunday.

Ok I've finalised it

In addition to my above choices I want something written in 2117. 😇