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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Pick Your Funeral Song Oct 9^th, 2025 at 3:41pm There are many excellent choices. This is my first one: Monty Python's Always Look on the Bright Side of LIfe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHPOzQzk9Qo
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joe_meadmaker Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Ice is Cool! Posts: 3902 PA, USA	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #1 - Oct 12^th, 2025 at 8:26pm Something with bagpipes. I'm not Scottish, but I love them.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #2 - Oct 15^th, 2025 at 10:41pm Ride My Seesaw, The Moody Blues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRQ3MwA4Nws
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #3 - Oct 16^th, 2025 at 8:29am Seasons in the Sun, Terry Jacks. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJehPcqk_5I Riders on the Storm, The Doors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1hn1pF-ilQ Also I'm an army vet so I'm entitled to a color guard playing taps at my funeral.
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slingbadger Interfector Viris Spurii Offline Don't Badger a Badger Posts: 3246 Akron NY Gender:	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #4 - Oct 16^th, 2025 at 2:00pm I want to play one of the jack in the box songs so people will think I'm going to pop out of the coffin.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #5 - Oct 16^th, 2025 at 5:39pm slingbadger wrote on Oct 16^th, 2025 at 2:00pm: I want to play one of the jack in the box songs so people will think I'm going to pop out of the coffin. Or if you're going to be cremated have someone stuff your pockets with popcorn kernels beforehand.
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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #6 - Oct 25^th, 2025 at 2:17pm Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c
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Re: Pick Your Funeral Song
Reply #7 - Nov 29^th, 2025 at 3:30am

Rat Man wrote on Oct 25^th, 2025 at 2:17pm:

Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c

Hello RM, speaking of funerals, how would y'all know if I was to pass away (like to add me on Remembering Members etc), would some members or mods be willing to add me on facebook to see news if I were to pass. Random thought I was having. (I'm still a fairly young man in 30s but a lil poorly on health, but overall okay besides my liver)

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Re: Pick Your Funeral Song
Reply #8 - Nov 30^th, 2025 at 10:54am

Jabames wrote on Nov 29^th, 2025 at 3:30am:

Rat Man wrote on Oct 25^th, 2025 at 2:17pm:

Don't Fear the Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy4HA3vUv2c

Hello RM, speaking of funerals, how would y'all know if I was to pass away (like to add me on Remembering Members etc), would some members or mods be willing to add me on facebook to see news if I were to pass. Random thought I was having. (I'm still a fairly young man in 30s but a lil poorly on health, but overall okay besides my liver)

I would gladly add you to my Fascistbook but I am banned from that and all things Meta. I hope your health improves.
I'm in pretty good health but old as hell so I've had similar thoughts. I've instructed a couple of friends to post the news here when I croak. Hopefully one of them will remember to.

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Re: Pick Your Funeral Song
Reply #9 - Dec 7^th, 2025 at 11:46pm

How the heck did you get banned Rat Man!? LOL

I love the popcorn idea - that's next level!

My grandfather had the oddest request - and noone knows why he chose it specifically - it was some Janet Jackson pop song... It still puzzles us all to this day. As a family we tried and tried but cant figure it out - He was a cheeky one so maybe that was his plan...

Follow the Sun by Xavier Rudd is crazy good... prob my pick

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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #10 - Dec 8^th, 2025 at 12:51pm CrazyBrave333 wrote on Dec 7^th, 2025 at 11:46pm: How the heck did you get banned Rat Man!? LOL They said I posted porn on Instagram. I've never posted porn anywhere in my life. I was banned for my political views. Anyway there is life after Fascistbook.
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Re: Pick Your Funeral Song
Reply #11 - Jan 1^st, 2026 at 4:35pm

So almost certainly no one has heard of this song before, but my choice is Going Up by Coil. It's actually technically a cover of the theme tune of the 70's British sitcom "Are You Being Served?". The show is set in a department store and the theme tune lists different floors of the store and what's sold there to a pretty upbeat tune. It's a silly, camp comedy show full of double entendres and tongue in cheek humour and the theme reflects that.

Coil changed it. They took this silly song made for a comedy series about a shop and somehow transformed it into this haunting melody that sounds so ethereal and melancholic. The lyrics are the same, but made hauntingly beautiful to the point of being barely recognizable. I think it really speaks to the beauty and absurdity of death. It's mundane and fantastical and strange and normal at the same time and this song, of any song I've ever heard, captures what death means the best. The fact that the two principal members of Coil have now died, Jhon Balance before the song was released, adds to it and I won't lie it's brought me to tears before. I love this song and think it's perfect.

https://youtu.be/ztdatfUEW94?si=RTCP3yz69cAYYxeX

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Rat Man Slinging.org Administrator Offline Slinging Rocks! Posts: 14229 New Jersey, USA Gender:	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #12 - Jan 20^th, 2026 at 9:52am Dust in the Wind by Kansas. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life), Green Day
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Tahoe Slinger Novicius Offline Posts: 9 Lake Tahoe, CA Gender:	Re: Pick Your Funeral Song Reply #13 - May 22^nd, 2026 at 12:05am Spirit in the Sky - Norm Greenbaum or Reelin in the Years - Steely Dan
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