Billie Eilish, Bette Midler and Frank Sinatra are all popular picks for funerals. But do you know what tracks you’d like to listen to on your deathbed?
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We frame our lives with
music, celebrating birthdays and anniversaries to curated playlists, labouring over tracks to give birth to. But when we’re dying, which songs do we want to hear? And why don’t we choose our own funeral songs?
On 29 January, at the monthly Science Museum Late event in
London, a talk called What’s Your #MyLastSong?, hosted by terminal-illness charity Marie Curie, explores these discombobulating questions. Attendees will nominate their ultimate last songs online through the #MyLastSong hashtag; they’ll then be played on a vintage jukebox on stage and discussed by a duo with intimate knowledge of the subject: consultant in palliative medicine Mark Taubert and 6 Music DJ Gideon Coe.