Once you reach a certain age, you know what you want and you aren’t afraid let people know about it.

For 80-year-old Iowa resident Mary Wohlford, she’s decided to spell it out for everyone. In February, she got a tattoo on her chest that reads “DO NOT RESUSCITATE.” And while some doctors and lawyers in the state question the binding nature of such a request, Wohlford stands firm behind her decision, stating, “Sometimes the nuttiest ideas are the most advanced.”

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A funeral is all the more poignant when it has a ‘personal’ touch to it, something that reminds loved ones of the dearly departed and brings back fond memories. Set to the tune of such popular sad songs as “I Will Always Love You” and “Candle in the Wind,” funerals aren’t exactly ripe with humor. But a 2002 survey of British funeral directors took a different approach: what were the ten most-requested odd songs at funerals? I wouldn’t know whether to laugh, cry, or get down with my bad self.

1. The Platters - “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”
2. Queen - “Another One Bites the Dust”
3. Theme from ITN’s Ten O’Clock News
4. Various Artists - “She’ll Be Coming Round the Mountain”
5. Wham - “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”
6. The Village People - “YMCA”
7. The Jungle Book Soundtrack - “I Wanna Be Like You”
8. Flanagan and Allen - “Run Rabbit Run”
9. The Prodigy - “Firestarter”
10. Russ Abbot - “Atmosphere”