Since I'll be dead, I'd like for my loved ones to do what will give them comfort--emotional and financial. That being said...
..I would like a cheap burial and funeral arrangements. Cremation is fine.
I'd like for them to play songs that remind them of me, and those songs are likely to be songs like "Let it Be" by the Beatles and "Morning has Broken, " popularized by Cat Stevens, but actually my favorite church hymn.
And a quote by Thornton Wilder:
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?"
STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.”
EMILY: "Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”
STAGE MANAGER: “We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.”
― Thornton Wilder, Our Town