I actually keep a playlist on my iPad for my family for when the day comes:

1. Knockin on Heavens Door Dylan
2. Remember When Alan Jackson
3. Colder Weather Zac Brown
4. Into the West Annie Lennox
5. Exile Enya
6. Time to Say Goodbye Sarah Brightman
7. As I Lay Me Down Sophie B. Hawkins

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Don't Follow- Alice in Chains (anything by AIC would be amazingly appropriate)
The End- The Doors
Hurt- Johnny Cash
First Breath After Coma- Explosions in the Sky
I'll think of the fifth one
We're all living in each other's paranoia.

Lots of great choices here. I would add
Angel- Jimi Hendrix
I Was Young When I Left Home- Dylan (although I could easily name ten more Dylan tunes)
Brokedown Palace- Grateful Dead (or Ripple)
But in the end there's only one for me:
Time, by Tom Waits
If that song doesn't bring a tear to your eye there's something seriously wrong with you.

Wow, hardly any IMDb threads 10 years old are even allowed to survive.

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That's a great list, I actually found a Substance 1987 original German pressing that potentially has Peter Hooks signature

1. Mercy Mercy Me Marvin Gaye
2. Great Gig in the Sky Pink Floyd
3. MLK U2
4. My My, Hey Hey Neil Young
5. Don't You (Forget About Me) Simple Minds
6. Reckoner Radiohead
   -?
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-nvfyphJxA
   "I am I am I said I'm not myself. I'm not dead and

Hmmm

1. Ceremony - New Order (some say Joy Division, I will consider it a New Order song)
2. Exit Music (For a Film) - Radiohead
3. Half Light I - Arcade Fire
4. Plainsong - The Cure
5. Strange News from Another Star - Blur

lowrider-war

At My Funeral Crash Test Dummies (Bit on the nose!)
Dream, Baby, Dream Bruce Springsteen
Love Me Tender Elvis Presley
In Dreams Roy Orbison
Midnight Train To Georgia Neil Diamond
Poor Men Wanna Be Rich, Rich Men Wanna Be Kings
And A King Ain't Satisfied Til He Rules Everything

Well I Wonder the Smiths
Dying in the Sun. The Cranberries
Empty. The Cranberries
Lions. Ace Enders
Hallelujah. Rufus Wainwright

Well the greatest funeral song of all time of course..
"Yakety Sax" - (The Benny Hill Theme)
Jesus would support Universal Health Care

Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
Stand by Me (Ben E. King)
You've Got a Friend (James Taylor)
Baby, I Need You Loving (The Four Tops)
We've Only Just Begun (The Carpenters)
Ava Maria (Judi Collins)

5. I Remember - Damien Rice
6. Up All Night - Counting Crows
7. Find The River - REM
8. I Grieve - Peter Gabriel
   And the ultimate song that HAS to be played
9. Man of the Hour - Pearl Jam
   Honourable Mentions:
   Set Me Free - The Kinks
   Hurt - Johnny Cash (the problem with this is it sounds way too personal for him, and it would seem wrong in some way to have it played while I was going out)
   Win One For The Reaper - Michael Giacchino (From the Lost soundtrack)
   And I just dug out Joe's Garage and listened to Watermelon again damn, that's a good choice too.

5. "Do Re Mi" - Nirvana
6. "Crystal Japan" - David Bowie
7. "These Days" - Nico
8. "All Tommorrow's Parties" - Velvet Underground
   And without a doubt:
9. "Watermelon In Easter Hay" - Frank Zappa
   "I wish I hadn't of seen Ricky on the sidewalk!" - R.I.P. Mitch Hedberg

No one mentioned Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath!
I only have 3 songs that come to my mind:
Goodbye Cruel World - Pink Floyd
Babe I Gonna Leave You - Led Zeppelin
The End - The Doors

coldplay - the scientist
the beatles - the long and winding road
u2 - one
guns n roses - november rain
sigur ros - hoppipolla

1. Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear the Reaper
2. Kansas - Dust in the Wind
3. Bob Marley - Johnny Was
4. The Cure - Love Song
5. Nine Inch Nails - Hurt

I Won't Back Down- Johnny Cash Version
Have You Ever Seen The Rain- CCR
Let It Be- The Beatles
All Apologies- Nirvana
Dream A Little Dream Of Me- The Mommas And The Papas

Minus the Bear? You've got my OK.

Coldplay - The Scientist
Oasis - Don't Look Back in Anger
Lostprophets - A Million miles
Feeder - Just the way I'm Feeling
Feeder - Just a Day

sorry, made a mistake

1. Weezer-Only In Dreams
2. Nine Inch Nails-Right Where It Belongs
3. Tom Petty and the Heartbrakers-Swingin'
4. The Wallflowers-Heroes
5. Minus The Bear-Get Me Naked 2

changed my mind

1. Weezer-Only In Dreams
2. Iggy Pop-The Passenger
3. Tom Petty and the Heartbrakers-Swingin'
4. The Wallflowers-Heroes
5. Minus The Bear-Get Me Naked 2

Slide Away - Oasis
Fade Out(street spirit) - Radiohead
So Young - Suede
Motorcycle Emptiness - Manic Street Preachers
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
"Smoke me a kipper i'll be back for breakfast"