Too Crass?

I was sitting in a meeting the other day (surprise!) and for some reason, the speaker in the conference room as cranked to full-volume. The Brahm's lullaby blasted through the conference room, announcing the addition of a new baby to the human family. Many hospitals do this when babies are born; it mitigates the culture of death and sickness and reaffirms life. When I shadowed the birth unit, I got to press the "baby button" as they call it. Three babies were born in quick succession and so I pushed the button three times in a row. Sister Lourdes called up to OB to ask if triplets were born. Um, no.

But here's my question....if we play a song when someone is born, should we play a song when someone passes away? I've had this discussion with The Edge before. She thinks they should play the song "Another One Bites the Dust." We hatched this plan when news broke of that poor computer analyst who died in his cube and no one discovered it until five days later. Then, of course, both The Edge and I will have to work until we're 100 (Social Security won't exist for us), so we'll probably die on the job. When our heads hit the keyboard with a "aefjasilefjilsjdvjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj," someone will know we're dead. Maybe someone in Information Services can monitor unusual typing patterns via algorithm? To announce the poor soul's death, we deduced that the easiest course of action would be a song played over the public address system.

So what are your suggestions? Another One Bites the Dust? Tuesday's Gone? Final Countdown? Where the Streets Have No Name?