Top 10 Best Songs to Play at Your Funeral

When it comes to planning a funeral, choosing the music can be one of the most personal and meaningful decisions you'll make, or have made on your behalf. Songs can speak volumes about a person's life, their passions, and the way they touched the people around them.

Whether you're honoring someone you loved or thinking about what you'd want for your own send-off, the right music can set the tone for a service that's as heartfelt and memorable as the life it celebrates.

The Top Ten

  1. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin

    I want this song for my funeral, actually. It would be a beautiful farewell, telling them I have gained enough money to buy the stairway itself!

    This is a good song to play at a funeral, but only if the person did some good things throughout their life.

    Who wouldn't want this song played at their funeral? I certainly want it played at mine!

  2. Hurt - Johnny Cash

    It's a very sad song, and the title really reflects how the people at your funeral must feel (unless you've been an ass all your life).

    One of the saddest songs ever. Perfect for a funeral.

  3. Hotel California - Eagles

  4. What a Wonderful World - Louis Armstrong

    A sorrowful jazz song. It really makes me cry, and it's relatable in a funeral context.

    This would be a great song for a funeral. I would play it if I went to a funeral.

    This is what I want to be played at my funeral.

  5. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

  6. Highway to Hell - AC/DC

    That is just going to make everyone at the funeral feel relaxed and not worry, isn't it?

    Tough call between this and Stairway to Heaven.

  7. Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton

    Melancholic acoustic guitar sounds make this song perfect for a funeral.

    This should be first. "Would you know my name if I saw you in heaven?"

  8. Into the West - Annie Lennox

    Ah man, this really is a beautiful song. I'd be happy, I'm sure, if this was played at my funeral someday.

    This is a beautiful song. I would absolutely love to have this played at my funeral.

    This song changed me as a person.

  9. Far from Home - Five Finger Death Punch

  10. Don't Stop Believing - Journey

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  13. See You Again - Wiz Khalifa

  14. Always Look On the Bright Side of Life - Monty Python

    YES! If this doesn't play at my funeral, I'm not going.

  15. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen

  16. Yesterday - The Beatles

    If you want everyone to cry their eyes out...

  17. Livin on a Prayer - Bon Jovi

  18. My Immortal - Evanescence

    A sad piano ballad with dark emotion, compatible with the sorrowful tone of a funeral.

    This song is perfect for a funeral due to its theme and overall mood.

    This song is beautiful and sad.

  19. How to Save a Life - The Fray

  20. Thunderstruck - AC/DC

  21. How Could This Happen to Me - Simple Plan

  22. Fade to Black - Metallica

    This would be appropriate to play at a funeral if the person had committed suicide.

    A beautiful and moving song about suicide. It should be MUCH higher on the list.

  23. As - Stevie Wonder

  24. Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions

    How would this be good for a funeral? I probably don't think it would be good if the person died from a hurricane.

    What? A song about sex played at a funeral?

  25. Come Sail Away - Styx

  26. All You Need is Love - The Beatles

  27. If You Wanna Get to Heaven - Ozark Mountain Daredevils

    As featured in Grand Theft Auto V. If you want to get to heaven, you have to raise a little hell.

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