Readers respond to a report on the most popular music for send-offs – and share their own choices
Having worked in a crematorium chapel, my heart always sank when loading My Way and Always Look on the Bright Side of Life into the music system every day (Hymns in and Monty Python out of UK funeral songs top 10, 20 June).
The most joyous song choice I ever experienced was for a gentleman who was carried into the chapel by his loving grandsons to Colonel Hathi’s March from The Jungle Book, dipping the coffin in time with the music as they did so.
