Everyone's last tune

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

"I want whoever's there to know this was a deliberate choice, and it mattered."

Lua

Bright Eyes

"It's the one song I'd trust to say goodbye for me."

Lua

Bright Eyes

"It's not an easy listen, but it's the truest one I've got."

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

"I want people to remember the sound of this, not the silence after."

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

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

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

The Night We Met

Lord Huron

Both Sides Now

Joni Mitchell

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

Big Yellow Taxi

Joni Mitchell

"This song reminds me of people who aren't here anymore, in a good way."

Let Her Go

Passenger

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

Fast Car

Tracy Chapman

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

The Night We Met

Lord Huron

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

Holocene

Bon Iver

Casimir Pulaski Day

Sufjan Stevens

"It's the song I'd want as the final note of my story."

Holocene

Bon Iver

"This is the song I want people to remember me by."

Bridge Over Troubled Water

Simon & Garfunkel

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

Flightless Bird, American Mouth

Iron & Wine

"It's melancholy, but it's mine, and I want it heard."

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

"I want people to feel the ache in this, because it's real."

Naked as We Came

Iron & Wine

Death With Dignity

Sufjan Stevens

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