Humanist Service

All  in  favour  of  whichever  service,  nonservice,  celebration  the  people  wanted  --  as  long  as  it  is agreed  beforehand !

As  for  the  final  music,  well  for  Brian  it's  just  got  to  be  the  "Countdown  Clock"  by  Alan Hawkshaw  ==>  tick  tick  tick  tick  TOCK  and  POOOF !

Christian burial/cremation services can be lovely too.  We've attended a lot recently, both Humanist and Church Services.

We went to one recently, where there were no hymns, only one prayer (the Lords Prayer) and the normal 'statutory bit by the vicar.  There were eulogies by family, including grandchildren, and she chose all the music herself.  Albatross was one piece, whilst everyone 'sat quietly and thought about the person',  the second was when we were asked to share our memories with others, and laugh or cry as we felt fit (I can't remember what that piece was, but something funny) and the third was Time to Say Goodbye by Kathleen Jenkins. The lady concerned was a lovely quiet lady aged 93!

My Mum-in-law's coffin was just strewn with spring daffodils, randomly over the whole coffin.  Early daffodils were a flower she absolutely loved - and she too hated funeral flowers.  She made us promise no wreaths, or card tributes on the coffin, so we just bought about twenty bunches of spring daffodils, and laid them on ourselves!

Everyone said how lovely it was and 'How Molly would have loved to see it.

I see Rocky2 is following CC in his pricing amendments.

As for funeral music, I've arranged it for my BIL for over the past few days

Entry: Ombra Mai Fu (Xerxes) - Handel
Quiet meditation: Piano Sonata No 14 (Moonlight) Adagio - Beethoven
Exit: Canon in D - Pachelbel 

There is apparently a glitch though as I've had an EMail from the Funeral Directors so it looks as though I'll need to pick another piece for one of them.

,Colleens last music was " The Final Countdown" CLASSIC !!

We have lots of different recorded music at funerals here - and some just prefer me to play organ music.  I am sometimes asked to play the main theme from Finlandia.  One recording we are asked for quite often is 'I did it my way...'

David 

Ooooo!  I want a big 'bash' when I go!    Welsh choir, Welsh hymns and Queen singing me out!  My husband says that I will have to have a 5 hour time slot in the Crem. to fit in all the music I want!    And definitely no flowers in the shape of 'Mum' or 'Gran' I hate those!    AND... a Welsh minister just in case there is a God!  

Taffy, you agnostics are all the sameHer Maj will be well gone before you Girl

I am a Welsh chapel girl Rocky!  AND I still say my prayers but I wouldn't argue with the non-believers as none of us REALLY  know do we?  

Yes!

'Oh didn't he ramble' will do me along with other Jazz/Negro Spirituals. And I apologise to those who think I have uttered a racist word, but it is a genuine genre of music, a la 1960's.

Being of a Quaker belief, I would prefer no funeral service as such where my body is present. I would suggest a meeting of folk where they can come together and for them to 'contribute' in anyway they wish. MrsSF knows my beloved music, poetry etc. and maybe she would choose that. It's about how they wish to celebrate, morn, remember, not how I want them to. Any 'funeral arrangements' are a very personal belief and others, I respect, may wish for other forms of remembrance.

Mickysf,  I  hope  you  and  your  Lady  have  committed  your  wishes  to  paper  and  somebody  else  has  that  paper

As  much  as  I  hate  to  raise  such  thoughts,  it  is  quite  possible  for  you  both  to  be,  say,  involved  in  a  fatal  accident  etcetera. 

Still  hoping  you  both  well  out  last  me  !!  And  I  have  a  few ( Very  Few )  quid  in  the  box  under  the  bed  so  I  aint  going  for  a  long  time  .