Cfrock
Keep it strong
It is becoming more and more prevelant these days for people to have a specific piece of music play at their funerals. In the UK, for example, the most common song played is My Way by Frank Sinatra, but songs such as My Heart Will Go On by Celine Dion and I Will Always Love You by Whitney Houston are among the most frequently chosen.
My Great-Uncle Jimmy had You'll Never Walk Alone by Gerry and The Pacemakers play at his funeral and my mother has often said she would like Angles by Robbie Williams. Sometimes people choose more personal songs that, while not necessarily in keeping with the subdued tone of a funeral, reflect their personality well. Others choose songs that they feel would be funny in the context (like Queen's Another One Bites The Dust) so as to alleviate some of the inherent sadness of the occassion.
This is a subject I sometimes dwell on when I listen to certain pieces of music and I was wondering if anyone else has ever given this topic any thought and if so, what song or piece of music would you have played at your own funeral and why?
For me personally, I would probably choose the Title Theme to The Wind Waker.
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When I listen to this piece of music I feel a great deal of emotion. To me, it tells the story of The Wind Waker extremely well, that of a young boy who leaves everything he knows and loves behind to go onto this grand, new adventure. He is guided by the love of his family and makes meaningful relationships with many other people in this new chapter of his life.
There's sadness of leaving home but it's kind of an optimistic sadness in that he'll always be with those he loves at heart and they with him. Things aren't coming to an end, only a new beginning. That's what I like to think of death as; the start of something new, not the end of something old. This music remembers fondly one life and gives great hope of the next.
I don't really know what I believe about an afterlife but I would like to think death is not a definitive end. This piece of music, to me, in that context, expresses that feeling equisitely. One life ends only for a new one to begin.
My Great-Uncle Jimmy had You'll Never Walk Alone by Gerry and The Pacemakers play at his funeral and my mother has often said she would like Angles by Robbie Williams. Sometimes people choose more personal songs that, while not necessarily in keeping with the subdued tone of a funeral, reflect their personality well. Others choose songs that they feel would be funny in the context (like Queen's Another One Bites The Dust) so as to alleviate some of the inherent sadness of the occassion.
This is a subject I sometimes dwell on when I listen to certain pieces of music and I was wondering if anyone else has ever given this topic any thought and if so, what song or piece of music would you have played at your own funeral and why?
For me personally, I would probably choose the Title Theme to The Wind Waker.
[video=youtube_share;jPJsSJvXMUw]http://youtu.be/jPJsSJvXMUw[/video]
When I listen to this piece of music I feel a great deal of emotion. To me, it tells the story of The Wind Waker extremely well, that of a young boy who leaves everything he knows and loves behind to go onto this grand, new adventure. He is guided by the love of his family and makes meaningful relationships with many other people in this new chapter of his life.
There's sadness of leaving home but it's kind of an optimistic sadness in that he'll always be with those he loves at heart and they with him. Things aren't coming to an end, only a new beginning. That's what I like to think of death as; the start of something new, not the end of something old. This music remembers fondly one life and gives great hope of the next.
I don't really know what I believe about an afterlife but I would like to think death is not a definitive end. This piece of music, to me, in that context, expresses that feeling equisitely. One life ends only for a new one to begin.