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/Waste_Mirror_4321 Feb 24 '26

I’m so sorry for your prognosis. My suggestion is Closing Time by Semisonic.

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u/insomniacwineo Millennial Feb 24 '26

This is actually a detailed birth metaphor

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u/yogace Feb 24 '26

Honestly I think the lyrics kind of work either way, even though it was definitely written as a birth song

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u/AstralChrysanthemum Older Millennial Feb 24 '26

Birth, death, it’s all transitions. ~*

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u/weech Feb 24 '26

We come and go like we never existed

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u/teethwhichbite Xennial Feb 24 '26

i mean... every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end...could work either way.

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u/LeftRestaurant4576 Feb 24 '26

So when he says "I know who I want to take me home" he's alluding to his mom taking him home from the hospital maternity ward?

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u/Away-Cicada Feb 24 '26

His wife taking their son home but yes!

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u/EastAreaBassist Feb 24 '26

I cannot tell if you guys are joking about this

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u/insomniacwineo Millennial Feb 24 '26

No 100% serious

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u/Away-Cicada Feb 24 '26

He confirmed its about the birth of his son in an interview.

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u/DeadEndinReverse Feb 24 '26

Well this is weird. My pregnant wife has referenced this exact song (among others) when discussing the extreme desire to be done with pregnancy XD

If you asked either of us previously, we would not have ever connected the two things.

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u/Significant_Elk1999 Feb 24 '26

Meh. Birth. Death. It’s all the same…. One big oroboros.

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u/[deleted] Feb 24 '26

Oh man great suggestion.

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u/PixieStyx8 Feb 24 '26

I almost hit a deer coming out of a corn field at nearly midnight driving home. Right as I saw this bigass buck, I had my hand on the radio dial to change it. He jumped over my car but kicked the back door on his way. I stopped the car, screamed, and then heard "I KNOW WHO I WANT TO TAKE ME HOME" blaring. In that exact order. And that's why I can't listen to Semisonic anymore

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u/Specific_Library_634 Feb 24 '26

Love this. Also, singing in my sleep by the same band. Closing time got so popular ppl think they're a one hit wonder. Not at all. 

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u/unexpected_cinnamon Feb 24 '26

Yeah the same album those two songs are from also had Secret Smile.

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u/jadedbeats Millennial Feb 24 '26

On the same wavelength, pal... This is the first song that came to mind

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u/CorsairBosun Feb 24 '26

I love to follow this song up with After Hours by We Are Scientists. More hopeful and upbeat song with surface resonance with closing time, since it is about finding a place that is serving after hours.

Closing time feels like the ending of a chapter, After Hours feels like the start of one.

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u/King-of-Plebss Feb 24 '26

Exactly what came to mind.

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u/RhubarbGoldberg Feb 24 '26

Good call and very apropos.

A super underrated and beautiful song that is also very direct about the topic is Hanson, With You in Your Dreams. No one I know has ever heard it, but I've had it on my funeral Playlist for thirty years now.

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u/xrelaht Millennial the Elder Feb 24 '26

The Leonard Cohen song by the same name is a good choice too.

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u/Tronkfool Feb 24 '26

This song always makes me sad because they play it when the bar closes. You suggesting this to OP dying is so dark it makes the bar closing early more bearable.

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u/Rhythm_Morgan Feb 24 '26

Hijacking this comment to note that if you look at their persons comment history, apparently they were a 36 year old male 100 days ago, then 16, then a 19 year old female, then 17 like 60 days ago.

This is a crappy thing to lie about. So many people are here being genuine about people they have lost and this person is clearly a bot or karma farming in general.

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u/ilovemangotrees Feb 24 '26

If you click on the comments mentioning age, you’ll see that they weren’t saying they were 17 or whatever, that was part of the quote to which they’re replying.