Everyone's last tune

First Day of My Life

Bright Eyes

"It's romantic without trying too hard, which is exactly us."

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

"I want people to feel the weight of this, just for a moment."

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

"I want this to be a moment for whoever needs to grieve, properly."

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

"It's the song that taught me grief and love are the same thing, really."

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

The Night We Met

Lord Huron

"I want people to know I left on my own terms."

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

"This song feels like an old photograph — warm, faded, mine."

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

The Sound of Silence

Simon & Garfunkel

First Day of My Life

Bright Eyes

"I want this to be the thing people associate with me, long after."

Holocene

Bon Iver

"I can't explain it. I just know it's the one."

Holocene

Bon Iver

The Night We Met

Lord Huron

Let Her Go

Passenger

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

"I want this cranked all the way up. No apologies."

Let Her Go

Passenger

"I want this to be the quiet thank you I never got round to saying."

John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Sufjan Stevens

"It's the song I want people thinking of when they think of me."