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What song would you want played at your funeral?Originally asked
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Malcolm Gladwell
Staff writer at The New Yorker; author of The Tipping Point and Outliers
Kiss And Say Goodbye by the Manhattans.
Ed Harris
American actor and director
Mr Tambourine Man.
Kathleen Turner
American actress
One of my daughter's. She wrote a song for me called Strong Like You, and she played it at the opening of my last play, Mother Courage. Every mother there cried.
Ivan Lendl
Czech and American tennis player
I am not thinking about dying yet.
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