The sweet sound of a rocket attached to my body, as I'm fired into space. That is all that is needed.
Funnily enough, "Dying thoughts of an Atheist" by Muse came on just as I opened this thread, so that has just become my choice.
I want my remains to be fired out of a nuclear cannon, at dawn, to this song Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
I want my coffin to detonate and shower my family and friends in bits, shortly followed by a brisk rendition of ding dong the witch is dead. I would also request that all drinks served at the wake contain ketamine or a very high grade lsd so unsuspecting people will be tripping balls or ketamized. I feel that would be a good send off. Then again i am planning to die age 65 in a 5 star hotel at the height of orgasm while od'ing on the nastiest crack i can find surrounded by hookers and mountains of coke. I feel that would be the best way to go out, none of this agonising loss of motor control.
Assuming I am still be-churched at the final shuffle, I would not have a choice in the music, or my final journey. It would be burial, and the music would be all be dirgey hymns and the like. However, if I am not be-churched, I would donate my body to medical science, to aid in finding a cure for my medical condition. But I would have my heart flameified and either "Lord Abortion" by Cradle of Filth or "Time After Time" by Elliot Minor Joe
To go along with the usual cliches Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire for cremation I'll have a proper think tonight though see what I come up with.
Opeth - Harvest Staind - Epiphany Kammarheit - The ruins and the serene Steve Roach - Groundswell Maeror Tri - Tartarus Steve Roach - Broken town Ahasverus - Sleep paralysis Kammarheit - All quiet in the land of frozen scenes Rinneradio - Ahola
Haven't really given it some thought, but probably something like "Enter Sandman". Go out with a headbang, as it were. Still, nothing could be stranger than my Grandma's funeral. Someone (not sure it was her, it was probably my dad. He does strange things like that) decided to play "The Carousel Waltz" from the musical Carousel as the coffin started to go through the curtain. Seriously, it was the most bizarre funeral I've ever been to - we all thought that the coffin would start slowly spinning at any moment, given the music...
Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets To The Wind In Copenhagen) Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Sugar 'n Spikes Sigur Ros - Glósóli Basically representing the 3 corner stones of the irregular tetrahedron that is my life. Not sure I want a formal funeral though.
I think i'd want to balance having something that'd be unique to mine, nothing religious and yet not something so strange that people think wtf. Choices i've thought of in the past include: Johnny Cash - Hurt (just to get everybody crying) Clayhill's cover of The Smiths - Please, please, please let me get what i want, from the This is England soundtrack Aerith's Theme (Piano Version) from the FF soundtrack No easy way out - Rocky Soundtrack Elton John - I'm still standing Oasis - Rocking Chair Deftones - Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) (Acoustic version)
Wow, Johnny Cash is a popular choice! My choice hasn't really changed since I was 13. I don't know why I was thinking about this sort of thing when I was 13, but the choice was If... by The Bluetones: (Ignore the silly student-ey video.)
Home at Last by Steely Dan Although I think when I pass i would rather my closest friends and family had a party in celebration of my life. Then have my ashes spread over the sea, land, and air. Bringing me back to where I came from.
