Don't use musics from concerts at cremations
Back in 2001, for my grandmother funeral, my grandfather set everything up in the next 48hours after she died. Funerary, coffin, crematorium, no religious ceremony, urn, etc.

Everything except from the music played at the cremation. He ask my brother and I to find some old tracks from Yves Montand (Edith : and not Charles Trenet) she loved, and burn (!) a CD to play at the cremation. A quick look at the internet gave us only live performances. Songs were a quite sad, plus the 'live' effect gave some depth that fitted the situation.

All was fine until the doors start to close end the coffin begin to move toward the oven. Sad people, sad faces, tears. The artist concluded a (sad) song, a small blank. Then the crowd that was attending that concert burst into a cheerful round of applause...
(VieuxConAigri is French, throw rocks at him, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 10:53, 5 replies)

I can see why people might not want that -
but personally, I think that's a fantastic send off :)
(Fleximus Rex briefly gave up lurking on, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 12:21, closed)

It's a bit shit if the crowd are calling for an encore, though

(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 12:43, closed)

This is true :-/

(Fleximus Rex briefly gave up lurking on, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 13:54, closed)

The family was too serious for that (lots of tension between siblings - and with the grandfather)
But it was hard not to laugh.

On a side note, my parents still have the urns (he died some years later) in the garage. close to the Halloween decorations box (I'm the only one to thinks it's funny).
(VieuxConAigri is French, throw rocks at him, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 13:30, closed)

Dunno. Y'a d'la joie is pretty inappropriate even without applause.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 13:44, closed)

Now I remeber, it was not Charles Trenet but Yves Montand
It was "Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLlBOmDpn1s
(VieuxConAigri is French, throw rocks at him, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 13:51, closed)

I prefer to imagine it was Y'a d'la joie.

( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 17:40, closed)

Could have been worse.
Probably why I have never been asked to arrange music for anyone's funeral:

b3ta.com/questions/conversationkillers/post1206771
(username failed moderation, Mon 15 Apr 2013, 14:45, closed)