I've often thought about this too, been found dead in a car with the stereo playing while the engine steams out smoke. Perhaps something like "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" playing. God, this all a bit morbid for a Monday evening!

Surely any disappointment of dying in that car crash would be more than mediated by the knowledge that, as you crashed, you were listening to magnificent music, that the onlookers and emergency teams could go home with, reverberating in their ears like the earworm from heaven, their lives transfixed and forever changed by, say, "Single Father" by Jackie Leven. Let it be a portent against ever playing other than the best.

to sombre the mood! Morbid indeed, but food-for-thought for music fans, nonetheless!

...although, as it's only 2:57 long, I'd have to summon the energy to get my palsied fingers to put it on repeat, should my demise proved to be protracted.

But what if your iPod got knackered in the impact? Nightmare…

Night Boat To Cairo, Fucking Ada, or Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life.

'There is a light that never goes out' by the Smiths, Morrissey crooning your slide to nirvana/heaven/hell/hole in ground/local crem. Sadly it's now too late for 'Please please please let me get what I want'. (Incidentally the use of the latter as the closing music for the TV programme on Arthur Kane was sublime.)

Some time ago a friend of mine turn his car over with me in the passenger seat. We were very lucky to crawl unhurt from the wreckage.
We stood, surrounded by inquisative sheep, watching the former car revolve slowly in the Cumbrian countryside and wondered whether it would catch fire. It did't. The cassette player kept playing.

The soundtrack to this episode should by rights have been something spectacular. Unfortunately, I have to report that my friend's abysmal driving was matched only by his musical taste.
Thus it is that my closest encounter with death will forever be brought to mind by ..... Iko Iko by the Belle Stars.