Stephen Dillane
British actor
I'd like the enormous congregation to sing Leonard Cohen's Come Healing.
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I Will Remember You, by Sarah McLachlan. That’ll choke the bastards up if nothing else will.
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Cressida Cowell
British writer
Thank You For The Music by Abba.
Happy Day by Sarkodie. I’m half Ghanaian, and in Ghana funerals really are a celebration of life. You dance and sing; it’s just a completely different vibe to over here in the UK. I would hope at my funeral that everyone’s on their feet, having a good time.
Beverley Knight
Singer and stage actor
It’s another bloody Prince song, I’m so sorry – Mountains. I love how the chord structure ascends and the vocals – “It’s only mountains and the sea / There’s nothing greater than you and me” – feel like an ascension. I’d like to think, when I shuffle off this mortal coil, I’m going to be ascending as opposed to descending. I think I’ve been a good girl.
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