Here's a cheery question: What songs/music do you want played at your funeral?
I'm writing an article. It came out of a conversation with some friends over too much wine and too much access to YouTube. I really appreciated the desire to go all Huckleberry Finn and know how people would respond to the last things we want to say via funeral music, and how it can reflect who we are (and it does if we son't care and let someone else handle it or choose nothing at all too).
Me? If you knew my background you'd get this, but I've been doing this since I was a kid, though most of my current choices are somewhat recent. My (partial) list so far:
In My Life (A friend pissed me off royally last year by dying and using it ahead of me. That is SOOOO him. 
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As (Stevie Wonder says "always" like nobody else in the world)
Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen's version)
Come On Up to the House (Tom Waits version)
Keep Me in Your Heart for Awhile (Warren Zevon wrote this in anticipation of his own death and I want people to CRY)
Take Me to the Mardi Gras (Because that's what I want it to be like and because NOLA is my heart)
Every Breath You Take (Because...well, why not threaten them a little on the way out)
And of course some New Orleans Jazz Funeral second line processional, but my choices change all the time.
I'm sure it'll change again over time, but this tickles me.
What about all y'all? What do you want your going-out music to be?
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I can see you now, hands folded, middle fingers extended in a fond fare-thee-well.
But I'm sure my family won't have the nerve to do it. Maybe my son will...
Or at least a good case of the willies. 
while we were all sitting in the funeral chapel, after a somber service that left everyone in tears, this version flooded the room.
If you had been there and looked around, you would have seen just about everyone smile. I squeezed my daughter's hand and said "perfect song, Jason is laughing his ass off right now".
Love you Jason. 
A pop-up ad showed up for Google Obituary Searches. They're watching us. 
The Southern relatives would FREAK.
not that there would be a funeral 
Right now I have nothing specified in my directives. But I've told my husband if he wants to do something it's up to his wishes.
If the neighbors continue to piss me off, I may make arrangements for live bands from the Bradfordville Blues Club to come and put on performances for a good 24 hours. If the bands set up at the bottom of the hill, the sound will echo up and down the shallow valley and rock the entire area!
On the other hand, at my BIL's memorial service they played Drift Away and asked everyone to sing along:
A note - the lake in the video looks a lot like the lake where the memorial was held.
Which ain't necessarily a bad thing.
These things should be decided while we are living 
I'd have this played first
then this one
I've always liked this one for no particular reason
Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar & Molly Mason
Pretty Bird by Carolina Chocolate Drops
Bonaparte's Retreat by Aly Bain
String of Pearls by Rhiannon Giddens and Laurelyn Dossett
But they are in my Youtube playlist "Funeral"
On edit: I do love threads like this 'cause it gives me more ideas.
there won't be a funeral for me. Very specific about that, when I reach the expiration date it's body donation or if that doesn't work a quick cremation and we are out of here.
but, anyone can feel free to hum a bit of "Danny Boy", should they feel the urge. 
"The Lark Ascending"
and Yes' "To Be Over."
Though I did give a thought to Bobby "Boris" Pickett's "It's Alive!" 
"It's Alive!" is funnier though.
