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"Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks

"Le Moribond" by Jacques Brel

"Arc of Time (Time Code)" by Bright Eyes

"Atlantic" by Keane

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

"Calling All Stations" by Genesis

"A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke

"A Most Peculiar Place" by Machine Translations

"Conversation with Death" by Peter Bellamy

"Tha Crossroads" by Bone-Thugs-N-Harmony

"Death and the Lady" by Shirley Collins

"Death Don't Have no Mercy" by the Reverend Gary Davis

"Death Have Mercy" by Vera Hall

"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult

"Escape From Hellview" by CKY

"The End" by The Doors

"Fear Of Dying" by Jack Off Jill

"Dalai Lama" by Rammstein

"Feel" by Robbie Williams

"Fixin' to Die" by Bukka White and Buffy Sainte-Marie

"Fuck Dying" by Ice Cube feat. KoЯn

"Funeral Tango" by Jacques Brel and Scott Walker

"The Ghost of You" by My Chemical Romance

"Gold Mine Gutted" by Bright Eyes

"The Great Gig in the Sky" by Pink Floyd

"Hallowed Be Thy Name" by Iron Maiden

"Heaven Can Wait" by Iron Maiden

"Hope There's Someone" by Antony and the Johnsons

"Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails

"The I Feel Like I'm Fixin to Die Rag" by Country Joe and the Fish

"I Hope You Die" by The Bloodhound Gang

"I Know the Reaper" by Machinae Supremacy

"It's Not my Time to Go" by Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks

"In My Darkest Hour" by Megadeth

"In This River" by Black Label Society

"Janie's Got A Gun" by Aerosmith

"Let's Get It Poppin'" by Bishop feat. Bookey Loc and Trek Life

"Love Becomes A Ghost" by Scarling.

"The Mercy Seat" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

"Murder" by Coldplay

"My Death" by Jacques Brel and Scott Walker

"My Name is Death" by The Incredible String Band

"Necrophobic" by Slayer

"Not Now" by blink-182

"O Death" by Camper Van Beethoven

"On The Run" by OMC

"Reach for the Sky" by Social Distortion

"Ride the Lightning" by Metallica

"See that my Grave is Kept Clean" by Blind Lemon Jefferson

"Someday" by Ce Ce Rogers

"Street Spirit (Fade Out)" by Radiohead

"A Therapy for Pain" by Fear Factory

"Thoughts of a Dying Atheist" by Muse

"Trapped Under Ice" by Metallica

"Who will take my place" by Dusty Springfield

"Will You Miss Me" by The Carter Family

"World Falls" by the Indigo Girls

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"10,000 Days (Wings Pt 2)" by Tool

"A Dark Congregation" by The Hush Soundm

"A little bit longer" by Jessica Folcker

"A Lifetime" by Better Than Ezra

"A Place Nearby" by Lene Marlin

"Afterglow" by INXS

"All Hallows Eve" by Type O Negative

"All My Love" by Led Zeppelin

"Alone You Breathe" by Savatage

"The Beekeeper" by Tori Amos

"Broadway" by Dice

"Cemetery Gates" by Pantera

"Coma White" by Marilyn Manson

"Comfort In Sound" by Feeder

"Country Death Song" by The Violent Femmes

"Cremation" by Lou Reed

"Dance" by Nas

"Dance With My Father" by Luther Vandross

"Darkness and Light" by Yonder Mountain String Band

"David's Lamentation" by The Watersons

"Dear Mother" by Rachel Rossos

"Death Letter Blues" by Son House

"Dick & Jane" by Bobby Vinton

"Down In a Hole" by Alice In Chains

"Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor" by Eels

"Empire of Light" by Tin Hat Trio

"Everyone I Love is Dead" by Type O Negative

"Everything Dies" by Type O Negative

"Even in Death" by Evanescence

"Fifteenth & T" by Swingin' Utters

"The First Fall of Snow" by Hank Williams

"Fond Farewell" by Elliott Smith

"For a Friend" by Jimmy Somerville

"Forever Free" by W.A.S.P.

"Forsaken (Vocal Version)" by VNV Nation

"The Funeral" by Hank Williams

"Goin' Out" by Sarah Harmer

"Gone Away" by The Offspring

"Gone Without Goodbye" by Brian Littrell

"Goodbye" by Patty Griffin

"Good Die Young" by D12

"Green Spandex" by Xavier Rudd

"Halloween Parade" by Lou Reed

"Happy Birthday" by Flipsyde

"Hear You Me" by Jimmy Eat World

"Helena" by My Chemical Romance

"Hello" by Evanescence

"Hi Flyer" by theSTART

"Hollow" by Pantera

"How Long Will They Mourn Me" by 2Pac

"Hurt" by Christina Aguilera

"I Am Stretched on Your Grave" by Dead Can Dance

"I Can Never Go Home Anymore" by The Shangri-Las

"I Will Follow You Into the Dark" By Death Cab For Cutie

"If I Die Tomorrow" by Mötley Crüe

"I'll Be Missing You" The Police

"I'll Be Missing You" Puff Daddy ft. Faith Evans

"I Miss You" blink-182

"In This Life" By Madonna

"Into the West" from "The Return of the King"

"Invincible" by Jesse McCartney

"Jed The Humanoid" by Grandaddy

"Je moest waarschijnlijk gaan" by Brainpower

"Jericho" by Hilary Duff (from the film Raise Your Voice)

"Lady D'Arbanville" by Cat Stevens

"Last Kiss" by Wayne Cochran Performed by J. Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers and Pearl Jam

"Late" by Ben Folds

"Lazyboy" by the Indigo Girls

"Leader of the Pack" by The Shangri-Las

"Letter to Alan" by Cold Chisel

"Life Without You" by Stevie Ray Vaughan

"Like You" by Evanescence

"Lightning Crashes" by Live (about death in childbirth)

"Lisa" — 3rd Strike

"Local Boy in the Photograph" by Stereophonics

"Long, Long Before Your Time" (Irish folk song)

"Long Ride Home" by Patty Griffin

"Love, Me" by Collin Raye (sometimes accredited as "If you get there before I do")

"Leslie Ann Levine" by The Decemberists

"Lucy" by The Hollies

"Lullabye" by Billy Joel

"Lydia" by Slaid Cleaves

"Me and My Bitch" by Notorious B.I.G.

"My Heart Will Go On" by Celine Dion (from the film Titanic)

"My Immortal" by Evanescence

"Moonight Shadow" by Missing Heart (from Dance Dance Revolution)

"Never Gone" by Backstreet Boys

"Never Went To Church" by The Streets

"Nona" by Mötley Crüe

"November Rain" by Guns N Roses

"No-One But You (Only The Good Die Young) by Brian May and Roger Taylor

"Not Even The Trees" by Hootie & The Blowfish

"Not Now" by blink-182

"Nur Zu Besuch" by Die Toten Hosen

"Ohne Dich" by Rammstein

"Nebel" by Rammstein

"Klavier" by Rammstein

"One Headlight" by The Wallflowers

"One More Arrow" by Elton John

"One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men

"Our Farewell" by Within Temptation

"Pain of Tragedy" by Cold fusion

"People Who Died" by The Jim Carroll Band

"Pink Frost" by The Chills

"Pints of Guinness Make You Strong" by Against Me!

"Pretty" — Korn

"Quick Fade" by Feeder

"Red Water (Christmas Mourning)" by Type O Negative

"Rest in Peace" by Brownside

"Rocky" by Austin Roberts

"A Row of Small Trees" by Garnet Rogers

"Say Hello 2 Heaven" by Temple of the Dog

"Since I Lost You" by Genesis

"Six Feet Deep Geto Boys

"Sleep:Less" by Icon of Coil

"Slipped Away" by Avril Lavigne

"Sodom South Georgia" by Iron and Wine

"Soil" by System of a Down

"Some Fantastic Place" by Squeeze

"Some Mother's Son" by The Kinks

"Someone's Watching over Me" by Hilary Duff (from the film Raise Your Voice)

"Suicide Child" by The Nuns

"Steps Ascending" by Thursday
"The Rocket" by Fred Eaglesmith

"St. James Infirmary" (many versions)

"Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton

"Teen Angel" by Mark Dinning

"The Dance" by Garth Brooks

"The Way You Lived" by CKY

"Those Gambler's Blues" by Jimmie Rodgers

"Travelling Soldier" by Dixie Chicks

"The Real Folk Blues" by The Seatbelts (from Cowboy Bebop)

"Two Twenty Nine" by Brave Saint Saturn (deals with the death of Reese Ropers grandmother)

"The Underwater Song" by theSTART

"Untitled" by Simple Plan

"Vertebrae" by Christine Fellows

"View From Heaven" by Yellowcard

"Wake Me Up When September Ends" by Green Day

"Watching over me" by Iced Earth

"Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance

"What Sarah Said" by Death Cab for Cutie

"When Sheila Dances" by Homunculus

"When The Great Man Falls" by Jim Infantino

"When The Rain Falls" by Zetta Bytes (from the film Pixel Perfect)

"Where the Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave

"When you Come back to me Again" by Garth Brooks

"Who You'd Be Today" by Kenny Chesney

"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from The Phantom of the Opera

"Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd

"With you in your dreams" by Hanson

"World of Our Own Making" by Merrie Amsterburg

"Yearbook" by Hanson

"You Never Know" by Immortal Technique

"You Were Here" Sarah Harmer (about the death of her friend and former bandmate Joe Chithalen)

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"100 Years" by Five For Fighting

"Abschied nehmen" by Xavier Naidoo

"Alles Ist Eins" by Die Toten Hosen

"A Lost Forgotten Sad Spirit" by Burzum

"A Most Peculiar Man" by Simon and Garfunkel

"And The Hero Will Drown" by Story of the Year

"And When I Die" by Laura Nyro

"Annabelle" by Gillian Welch

"Anthem of Our Dying Day" by Story of the Year

"A Perfect Sonnet" by Bright Eyes

"The Big Sleep" by Streetlight Manifesto

"Boo" by Pinback

"The Call Of Ktulu" by Metallica

"Can You Dig It?" by The Monkees

"Cold Cold Ground" by Tom Waits

"Creeping Death" by Metallica

"Dead" by They Might Be Giants

"Dear Old Battlefield" by The Incredible String Band

"Death of the Latvian Nation" by Armands Leimanis

"Death Comes Calling" by Everlast

"Death Comes Ripping" by The Misfits

"Death in Fire" by Amon Amarth

"Death is not the End" by Bob Dylan

"Death is only a Dream" by Edward Clayborn

"Descend the Shades of Night" — Machine Head

"Die For My Sins" by Sanctuary

"Die With me" by Type O Negative

"(Don't Fear) The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult

"Do You Realize??" by The Flaming Lips

"Easy/Lucky/Free" by Bright Eyes

"Eclipse" by Pink Floyd

"Eulogy" by Tool

"Eye of the Hurricane" by David Wilcox

"Fallen Angels" by Aerosmith

"Feeling Yourself Disintegrate" by The Flaming Lips

"Fight Fire With Fire" by Metallica

"Forgive Me" by Proof of D12 f/ 50 Cent

"Funeral Song" by Crash Test Dummies

"Free Bird" by Lynyrd Skynyrd

"Going Down to Die" by Danzig

"Grave Digger" by Dave Matthews Band

"Green Man" by Type O Negative

"Haltet die Welt an" by Glashaus

"High Hopes by Pink Floyd

"I Am Going To Hell For This One" by NOFX

"I Remember You" by Slim Whitman

"I Seen A Man Die" by Scarface

"I Will Follow You Into The Dark" by Death Cab For Cutie

"Idumea" by The Young Tradition

"In My Time of Dying" by Led Zeppelin

"In the Aeroplane over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel

"Infinite Dreams" by Iron Maiden

"Join Me" by HIM

"Lady in Green" by Mary Coughlan

"Life'll Kill Ya" by Warren Zevon

"Like A Stone" by Audioslave

"Long And Hard Road Out Of Hell" by Marilyn Manson

"Lost in A Contraption" by CKY

"The Lyke Wake Dirge" by Pentangle

"Primary" by The Cure

"Pretty Suicide" by Space

"Meet You There" by Simple Plan

"Morte O Merce" by Unto Ashes

"Mother Love" by Queen

"Nothing is Not" by Morbid Angel

"Pull Me Under" by Dream Theater

"Redemption Song" by Bob Marley

"Scene Eight: The Spirit Carries On" by Dream Theater

"Spirit In The Sky" by Norman Greenbaum

"The Old Folks" by Jacques Brel

"The Show Must Go On" by Queen

"Thoughts of a Dying Atheist" by Muse

"Together Again" by Janet Jackson

"Trapped Under Ice" by Metallica

"Silent Lucidity" by Queensrÿche

"Slipped Away" by Avril Lavigne

"Soil" by System of a Down

"Streets of heaven" by Sherrie Austin

"Suicidal Thoughts" by Notorious B.I.G.

"Sunrise, Sunset" by Bright Eyes

"The Truth About Heaven" by Armor For Sleep

"Voice of the Soul" by Death

"Wake Up" by The Arcade Fire

"Was It All Worth It ?" by Queen

"Welcome to the Black Parade" by My Chemical Romance

"We're Only Going To Die" by Bad Religion

"When God Comes and Gathers his Jewels" by Hank Williams

"When I Go" by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

"When The Angels Sing" by Social Distortion

"Who by Fire" by Leonard Cohen

"Who Wants To Live Forever?" by Queen

"Why Must we Die?" by Kate and Anna McGarrigle and Joel Zifkin

"Wings for Marie" by Tool

"Worms" by The Pogues

"Yer Blues" by The Beatles

"What Happens When We Die?" by Luke Haines

"The Remembrance Ballad" by Atreyu

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"The Ballad Of Danny Bailey (1909-34)" by Elton John

"18 & Life" by Skid Row

"Almas de Venta" — Brujeria

"American Psycho II" by D12 f/ B-Real of Cypress Hill

"Klavier" by Rammstein

"Mein Teil" by Rammstein

"Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen

"Battery" by Metallica

"Black Friday" by Megadeth

"Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen

"Cassie" by Flyleaf

"Cat-Eye Willie Claims His Lover" by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

"Chapter Four" by Avenged Sevenfold

"Dancin' With Manson" by Therapy?

"Delia's Gone" by Johnny Cash

"Delilah" by Tom Jones

"Deliverance" by Opeth

"Dig" by Mudvayne

"Drop Dead" by Space

"Excitable Boy" by Warren Zevon

"Cop Killer" by Ice-T

"Fantasy Bag" by Therapy?

"Fish Fry" by Big Black

"Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash

"For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Metallica (5 Guys get murdered on a hill)

"Getting Away With Murder" by Papa Roach

"Go to Sleep" DMX f/ Eminem and Obie Trice (Cradle to the Grave Soundtrack)

"Goodbye Earl" by The Dixie Chicks

"Grinder" by Big Black

"Harvester Of Sorrow" by Metallica

"How I Could Just Kill A Man" by Cypress Hill

"Hey Joe" by Billy Roberts, later recorded by Jimi Hendrix

"House of 1000 Corpses" by Rob Zombie

"I Never Told You What I Do For a Living" by My Chemical Romance

"I shott the sheriff" by Bob Marley & the Wailers

"I Used to Love Her" by Guns N' Roses

"I Will Kill You" by Cannibal Corpse

"I'll Sink Manhattan" by They Might Be Giants

"It snows in hell" by Lordi

"Janie's Got a Gun" by Aerosmith

"Kill Me" by Space

"Kill You" by Eminem

"Kill You" — Korn

"Killing An Arab" by The Cure

"Killing Is My Business" by Megadeth

"Kim" by Eminem

"Little Musgrave" by Christy Moore

"Little Sir Hugh" by Steeleye Span

"Long Lankin" by Steeleye Span

"Masters Of War" by Bob Dylan

"Mack the Knife" by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, later recorded by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin

"Me and Jesus the Pimp in the '79 Grenada Last Night" by The Coup

"The Mariner's Revenge Song" by The Decemberists

"Maxwell's Silver Hammer" by The Beatles

"Melody Motel" by Squeeze

"Midnight Creeper" by Eagles of Death Metal

"Midnight Rambler" by The Rolling Stones

"Nothing to Gein" — Mudvayne

"The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia" by Vicki Lawrence

"Omie Wise" by Doc Watson

"Preston Miller" by Dave Carter & Tracy Grammer

"Psycho Killer" by The Talking Heads

"Rapture" - Hurt

"Ride The Wings of Pestilence" by From First To Last

"Rio Bravo" by CKY

"Run Rabbit Run" by Rob Zombie

"Run to the hills" by Iron Maiden

"Saturday Night" by The Misfits

"Seasons In The Abyss" by Slayer

"Seek And Destroy" by Metallica

"Sniped" by CKY

"Stagger Lee" by Lloyd Price

"Steelworker" by Big Black

"Subway Song" by The Cure

"Timothy" by The Buoys

"Tom Dooley" by Doc Watson

"Two Weeks From Twenty" by Yellowcard

"Trephination" — Machine Head

"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Warrant"

"Valley of Chrome" by Cypress Hill

"The Lonesome Death Of Hattie Carroll" by Bob Dylan

"War Pigs" by Black Sabbath

"Washington Bullets" by The Clash

"The Wedding List" by Kate Bush

"Welcome To Jamrock" by Damian Marley

"Wet Job" by Fingerprintz

"What Sarah Said" by Death Cab for Cutie

"Where the wild roses grow" by Nick Crave & the bad seeds & Kylie Minogue

"Where is She?" by The Killers

"Who Killed Davey Moore?" by Bob Dylan

"With God On Our Side" by Bob Dylan

"You're All I Need" by Mötley Crüe

"Loved to Deth" by Megadeth

"Kill You" by Korn

"Beyond the Realms Of Death" by judas Priest

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See also List of songs about suicide

"2112" by Rush

"Adam's Song" by blink-182

"Asleep" by The Smiths

"Disappoint" by Assemblage 23 (about the suicide of Tom's father)

"Chop Suey!" by System Of A Down

"Fade To Black" by Metallica

"Suicide" by Motörhead

"Adios" by Rammstein

"Goodbye, We're falling Fast" by Aiden

"Homecoming pt.1, The Death of St. Jimmy" by Green Day

"In My Darkest Hour" by Megadeth

"Kurt Kobain" by Proof of D12

"No Lies, Just Love" by Bright Eyes

"One" by Metallica (Wanting to commit suicide)

"Otherside" by Red Hot Chili Peppers

"Revelation" by D12

"Paper Rose" by SomeHow Wanted

"Roses For The Dead" by Funeral For A Friend (Talks about a boy before he commits suicide)

"Say Goodbye" by Girlyman (other interpretations may exist)

"Smells Like Teen Spirit" by Nirvana

"Soil" by System of a Down

"Schneller Leben" by Die Ärzte

"Suicidal Thoughts" by The Notorious B.I.G.

"Suicide" by Thin Lizzy

"Suicide is Painless" by Johnny Mandel (with vocals theme from the Movie MASH 1970, instrumental version theme of TV show MASH 1972-83)

"The Final" by Dir en grey

"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" by The Smiths (Wanting to commit suicide)

"Tourniquet" by Evanescence (talks about failed suicide and regret behind the attempt)

"Uptight" by Green day

"When I'm Dead" by Stabbing Westward

"Killing Machine" Judas Priest

"Nick The Busker" Jazzaholics Unanimous

"Jeremy" Pearl Jam

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