What do I do with you when you die?

[genjen]

I'm not digging my cats up if I move!

[Comosus]

I thought about a green burial but how much does it cost?

I've written some notes and left them with my will.

I want the cheapest coffin possible.
I want a non religious ceremony
Make it as cheap as possible
Don't wear black

Read this part of Joyce Grenfell poem

Break not a flower, nor inscribe a stone,
Nor, when I’m gone, speak in a Sunday voice,
But be the usual selves That I have known.
Weep if you must:
Parting is hell,
But life goes on
So...sing as well!”

Play Karen Carpenter "Sing a song"

Sylviaann

Oh and save all the family history somewhere for someone to read.
Send a CD copy to all people on my list

Sylviaann

I've decided on "Highway to hell" for my funeral music. Preferably as the coffin starts moving off behind the curtains!

Andrew

[Romilly]

I've decided on "Highway to hell" for my funeral music. Preferably as the coffin starts moving off behind the curtains!

Andrew

Apparantly 'Queens,' 'Another one bites the dust' is popular at funerals.
Romilly

[~Rachel~]

I'd want a completely non religious ceremony, that much I'm sure of.

As to where I'd like to be scattered... I think maybe on the banks of the river Acheron in Greece. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to, and reminds me of the best family holiday.

Although I have a feeling in Greek mythology it was the entrance to the underworld, how appropriate. 

[pistonbroke]

I've decided on "Highway to hell" for my funeral music. Preferably as the coffin starts moving off behind the curtains!

Andrew

My aunt wanted that played at her funeral but the funeral directors refused & she couldn't find a crematorium that would allow it either.
Vic

[JAP]

The Australian folk song isn't a bad one:

"Wrap me up with my stockwhip and blanket,
And bury me deep down below,
Where the dingoes and crows can't molest me
In the land where the coolibahs grow"

There are many versions and not all Australian:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_ballad

And for the music many sites including:
http://www.musicaustralia.org/temp/1000000000022389-13799.asx
(a small extract sung by a New Zealander with an American accent ...)

Personally I'd think absolutely no ceremony, and whatever's done with the remains should not disturb the environment ...
And if any part of me is useful as a spare part for anyone else, please use it - though I'm probably too old for that!

[JenB]

In some areas, like the top of Snowdon, the flora is being affected by the amount of ashes spread.  They change the composition of the soil and some rare plants are being affected.

It's also apparently becoming a major problem on Ben Nevis

http://www.nevispartnership.co.uk/ashes.asp
http://www.rootschat.com/links/05an/

[genjen]

One of my close friends had Buddy Holly's "That'll Be the Day". Another went out to Edith Piaff, Je Ne Regrette Rien, with the entire congregation waving and joining in with the song.

A fairly common final song in the English folk world is John Tams' "Rolling Home". It's not to do with dying but it's a great chorus song about the working classes and always gets a huge volume of sound from the assembled company. It will be one of mine.  

[JAP]

A friend of mine went out to John Lennon's  "Imagine" (his choice).

A good choice for a non-religious scientist who was a deeply committed environmentalist and humanist.

JAP