Comments on: Cell Phones at Funerals

By: sharing a song

sharing a song — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:44:53 +0000

~”Give Me One More Night” (from the 80s) can ‘t think of who the singer is..lyrics: “give me one more night, just one more night..”

They played that song over our hs loudspeaker on the eve of the graduation of the senior class. Would work here too.

~ Another idea might be “Memories” (from Cats)

~ another idea would be “So Long, Farewell” played during the time when the casket and the deceased are “leaving” the chapel.

I’m not using my normal name here though I don’t participate a lot as someone in my ward recently passed away. So out of respect for this person’s family, just in the remote chance someone from my ward figured out who I was, will not use my usual name.

By: Elphaba

Elphaba — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:17:36 +0000

Just for funny, when my BIL passed, I changed my ringtone to Stairway to Heaven. He would have loved it. Plenty of other people thought it was in poor taste, (They must have forgotten who we were burying because tasteless and seasonal ringtones were his speciality) so I changed it to O My Father. snicker.

By: queuno

queuno — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:58:04 +0000

- November Rain (Guns and Roses)
- Come Back to Texas (Bowling for Soup)
- Time of your Life (Green Day)
- Small Things (Blink 182)

My 11yo pro-environment daughter wants Rush’s “Trees” sung at hers.

By: DKL

DKL — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 03:39:21 +0000

On a more purely humorous note (since the Dias irea from Verdi’s Requiem is funny because it’s really, really not humorous sounding), I think that the following would work in terms of being apropos:

1. Lust for Life (Iggy Pop)
2. Where Is My Mind? (The Pixies)
3. I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead (Warren Zevon)
4. Spirit in the Sky (Norman Greenbaum)
5. Hell’s Bells (AC/DC)
6. Happy Trails (Van Halen)

And, good ones if you’re looking for a total non sequitur:

7. I Touch Myself (diVynals)
8. Good Girls Don’t (The Knack)
9. Happiness Is a Warm Gun (The Beatles)
10. Alabama Song (The Doors)

By: meems

meems — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 01:35:02 +0000

My friend says he wants the “song” Popcorn played at his funeral. He’s considering writing it into his will.

By: DKL

DKL — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 00:15:11 +0000

Great post! How’d I miss this?!?!

Of course, I’d be happy to oblige!

I think you should be something startling, like the Dies Irea (sp? I’m on my iPhone — I intend the Latin name for the second major part of the mass) from Verdi’s Requiem — like the Karajan version which is very heavy and intense sounding.

By: StillConfused

StillConfused — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 18:45:08 +0000

My song will be “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone”. Then perhaps the lights go out. Or maybe that is pushing it.

By: Margaret Young

Margaret Young — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:57:05 +0000

Thanks for these very cool ideas, all.
Time for Conference.

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:37:53 +0000

I’ve made it clear to my wife that if I kick the bucket, she’d better hold the funeral at the City Museum in St. Louis. It’s an old shoe factory, the original home of Red Goose shoes. The current owner comes from family business of architectural concrete. Most of the museum has been decked out with caves, tunnels, crawl tubes, slides, ramps, and other stuff that’s been salvaged from various factories and other locations. There’s a jungle gym in front – it’s five stories high and incorporates two airplanes, a firetruck, a dodgeball cage-match pit, and an old church tower complete with gargoyles. After the funeral, everybody should go play with their kids.

I was at a funeral here a while ago (non-LDS) and the ringtone that went off behind me was called “I Ain’t Got No Panties”. The funeral was for a 16 year-old boy, so I don’t think he would have minded much.

At another funeral (8-year old daughter of a co-worker), an uncle played a jazz rendition of “Amazing Grace” on the trombone, complete with drum set, string bass, and piano. It had been the favorite of the little girl. There was a cell phone going off at that funeral too, but the song was the main theme from “Lord of the Rings”.

Non-LDS funerals here in the midwest seem to be like testimony meeting – they have a few opening remarks, and then open the microphone. With the LDS funerals here, they seem to think they’ve wasted an opportunity unless they can get the first two missionary discussions in, complete with the full-time Elders passing out copies of the Book of Mormon on the way out. Not sure I like the trend.

By: Matt W.

Matt W. — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:36:54 +0000

mojo nixon: "You can't kill me, I will not die" here.