The question
What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Hey Ya, by OutKast.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 February 2013 source ↗
Dancing Queen, by Abba.
David Bowie’s Life On Mars.
If I Can Dream, by Elvis Presley.
I’ve been through a lot of grief in my life and there are intimate moments where you need to bawl your eyes out. As the dead person, I want to say: this is a moment you cannot control, life goes to shit sometimes. So I would choose Don’t Worry, Be Happy by Bobby McFerrin; some things you can’t change.
Realising I was never going to make it big in professional swing dance.
I’d probably take out a lot of my 20s, when I was rude, annoying and a brat.
A sense of optimism.
My short film, Scrubber, in 2011. At that time in my life it seemed easier to pay for it myself than to apply for funds.
Those abduction situations where you’re packed in a bunker for 30 years.
Confident, stressed, greedy.
Stephen Dillane, Yayoi Kusama, Philippa Perry, Patricia Hodge, Billy Ocean, Timmy Mallett
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