Everyone's last tune

Fix You

Coldplay

Chasing Cars

Snow Patrol

"This is, in a way, my closing statement."

Mr. Brightside

The Killers

"I want my people to dance. One last time."

Mr. Brightside

The Killers

Lua

Bright Eyes

"I'd rather be remembered through this than through a eulogy."

First Day of My Life

Bright Eyes

"I want people to know I went out exactly as myself."

The Funeral

Band of Horses

"No other song comes close."

Lose Yourself

Eminem

"This song makes me believe things generally work out."

The Scientist

Coldplay

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

"Some things don't need explaining. This is one of them."

Transatlanticism

Death Cab for Cutie

"It's the one song I'd never want to live without."

Such Great Heights

The Postal Service

The Funeral

Band of Horses

"I want people to know exactly who they were saying goodbye to."

Lua

Bright Eyes

Skinny Love

Bon Iver

"This song helped me through grief I didn't think I'd survive."

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

Numb

Linkin Park

"If you know this song, you know me."

I Will Follow You into the Dark

Death Cab for Cutie

The Funeral

Band of Horses

Cemeteries of London

Coldplay

"I've loved this since the first time I heard it, and that hasn't changed."