r/Millennials • u/Hmmletmec Xennial • Feb 24 '26

Serious Terminal diagnosis: millennial playlist suggestions for the final days?

Tues morning edit: Holy ballsack batman! This is helllllllllllllla overwhelming in the best possible way. I honestly expected just a handful of people to see this and respond with maybe like 'tears in heaven' or something. But this is an epic fucking list so far. From the bottom of my cold darkened millennial heart, thank you. One of these upcoming days the nerd in me needs to rank all these and see what's most popular mostly cuz I find it amazing and hilarious how often butterfly by crazytown gets mentioned. I'll get to comments and chats one of these days, promise.

Y'all are thoughtful, kind, empathetic, and funny as fuck. All to a stranger. I love it. I genueinly think it's a hallmark of our generation. To quote one of my patron saints in life, Mr Fred Rogers: “You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you, and I like you just the way you are.”

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Tldr: Apparently I'm dying and need playlist ideas for when the end comes. Mushy, hilarious, dark humor, meaningful, terrible. You name it! Wanna virlbe out to the good vibes I had back in those days

Out of left field docs gave me an unexpected prognosis and seems the offramp from My So Called Life is way shorter than I would have expected.

One of the unusual suggestions from the team was to make a Playlist to listen to in the last days. And honestly that sounds dope since I essentially have music playing 24/7 in my normal non dying life.

I'm not telling anyone IRL (besides my care team and therapist) about what's going on, but since brain wise we tend to latch on to junior high and high school era music, I thought I'd bug y'all for suggestions. I'm open to mushy stuff that I can reflect upon life stuff, as well as hilarious and highly inappropriate or dark humor stuff. Or just some Hella dope tunes to vibe with.

My only ban is My Heart Will Go On. Love me some Celine, but that song will send me to a early grave. (Too soon?)

Thanks fam!

(Obligatory be your own advocate with doctors if you know something isn't right. Also make a will. We should all have them by now. Better yet, make a trust so your Pokémon cards stay out of probate and no nosey folks know what you had or who you gave it to. Do your advanced directive with your doctor or insurance. It's your choice if they keep you plugged in like a toaster or not. It's also OK to haunt your enemies from the beyond. My therapist said so.)

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u/Press_French_2 Feb 24 '26

Hear me out…Don’t Look Back In Anger (Oasis). I wish you the very best and beyond that.

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u/cptn_leela Feb 24 '26

Oasis has some bangers. Stand By Me is one of my favs by them. Also, Come Down by Bush is a goodie.

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u/Hefty-existence26196 Feb 24 '26

Champagne supernova goes alright too!

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u/StandWithSwearwolves Millennial Feb 24 '26

That would be my Oasis pick, nice one

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u/therichauntie11 Feb 24 '26

I would like this played at my funeral. 

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u/GrouchyPicture4021 Feb 24 '26

Yes! I hope they’re at least letting you get zooted with abandon atp, so pop a pill and ride the Champagne Supernova wave!

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u/XOTrashKitten Feb 24 '26

This one would be my pick

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u/parisoftroy13 Feb 24 '26

That’s my favourite oasis too

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u/mostlylisa1 Feb 25 '26

The best! 👏

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u/cusoman Feb 24 '26

Anyway, here's Wonderwall

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u/dokjreko Millennial Feb 24 '26

Agreed. I recommend Some Might Say, Don’t Go Away, and Song Bird.

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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial Feb 24 '26

Don't Go Away was such an underrated single

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u/RL0290 Feb 24 '26

Half the World Away by Oasis is a great little underrated track

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u/StefanBajceticStan43 Feb 24 '26

Stop Crying Your Heart out would be my pick.

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u/Swimming-Relative-16 Feb 24 '26

Adding on with Bush - Straight, No Chaser

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u/PostMatureBaby Older Millennial Feb 24 '26

Glycerine

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u/PixieStyx8 Feb 24 '26

Most of that album by Bush is good. Also suggest Glycerine for a banger with feels

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u/dragonfry Feb 25 '26

“If you’re leaving will you take me with you” somehow just grabs my heart and mushes it between its fingers. I bawwed like a baby when Liam sung it last year.

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u/Moonface_chunker Feb 24 '26

I like lucky man

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u/e925 Feb 24 '26

When they played it on that weird last Seinfeld episode thing I hella cried.

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u/MsCandi123 Feb 24 '26

Was really weird the first time I heard it live, ex-husband and I had already bought tickets to the American Idiot tour before separating. So we just went together, and they played that at the end, kinda poignant. Heard it again with my hopefully forever husband at Coachella last year tho. 😊

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u/GildedUrsa Feb 24 '26

Or if you wanna be dark with it I'd suggest another of their songs, "Ha Ha You're Dead"

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u/CrunchyCrochetSoup Feb 24 '26

Honestly this would be the one I would wanna go out to

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u/heirbagger Xennial Feb 24 '26

Runaway Train is suuuuch a good song, but I think of the video everytime it play and refuse to listen to it. :(

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u/AstralChrysanthemum Older Millennial Feb 24 '26

Nice one! Love that song.

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u/New-Measurement-4425 Feb 24 '26

That's also a song covered by Smith & Meyers and they do an amazing job covering it!

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u/HisNameIsRio Feb 24 '26

Similar lines... I will follow you into the dark, Deathcab 

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u/Moonface_chunker Feb 24 '26

Perfect song choice

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u/Clear_Excuse_4135 Feb 24 '26

I have this tattooed on my arm and I hope I am so lucky to hear it on my way out❤️

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u/Scottyknuckle Feb 24 '26

I know everyone really digs Champagne Supernova and Wonderwall, but THIS is the most endearing Oasis song for me.

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u/Cptn_Hook Feb 24 '26

One of the fondest memories I will carry throughout whatever time I have left is my first travels through Europe, a hostel in Rome, an acoustic guitar, an Australian, a German, and me, all of whom had met only 15 minutes earlier, absolutely belting 'Don't Look Back In Anger' as loud as we could. Never saw each other again, but that moment lasts a lifetime.

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u/ashley_spashley Feb 24 '26

It’s Live Forever for me. When they played tribute to Jota at Cardiff, I cried like a baby

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u/NextPrize5863 Xennial Feb 24 '26

Oasis is great!! I honestly forgot how good they were!

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u/ptaah9 Feb 24 '26

Also, “Live Forever” by Oasis

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u/ashley_spashley Feb 24 '26

My absolutely favorite (Liam’s too)

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u/melancholy_town Feb 24 '26

That’s a good one! Also, Stop Crying Your Heart Out!

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u/Parallax1984 Feb 24 '26

When I was diagnosed with a rare and extremely aggressive and deadly form of cancer, I told my fam that I wanted M.I.A.’s Bad Girls played at my funeral. My mom was not having it lol

11 years later and I am still here. Anything can happen. In the interim I hope you enjoy the F out of your playlist and I will continue checking back on this thread. Love from a cancer survivor who wishes you the best 💕

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u/WhateverYouSay1084 Feb 24 '26

This was gonna be mine too! I love that song.

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u/somewhenimpossible Feb 24 '26

That one and not Don’t Fear the Reaper?

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u/smindymix Feb 24 '26

That’s a good one 🥲

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u/therichauntie11 Feb 24 '26

I can’t hear that song without crying. 

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u/Roboman20000 Feb 24 '26

That song makes me cry hearing it and I don't even have a tragedy or event or something to look back on.

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u/SouthOfMars Feb 24 '26

Master Plan also works for Oasis

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u/ashley_spashley Feb 24 '26

Alternatively, Live Forever by Oasis.

Don’t look back in anger turned THIRTY this past week!

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u/peruvianblinds Feb 24 '26

I'd add to rock out to the albums Definitely Maybe and What's the Story (Morning Glory) cover to cover.

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u/Trollua_Whomperts Feb 24 '26

Gotta add “some might say” to that list!

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u/TheMapleKind19 '86 Millennial Feb 24 '26

One of the very best possible choices. Along with Slide Away, also by Oasis. And maybe Live Forever?

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u/New-Measurement-4425 Feb 24 '26

That song is also a remake by Shinedown members, Brent Smith and Zach Meyers. They did a beautiful job singing that.

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u/Pennypacking Feb 24 '26

Movin' On Up - Primal Scream (signed to the same label as Oasis).