Mike Ayers's book 'One Last Song: Conversations on Life, Death, and Music.' (Jay Gabler/MPR) When I first started at Minnesota Public Radio, I worked at both The Current and our sister station, Classical MPR. Multiple times even during the few years I worked at the classical station, we heard from grateful listeners who reported that when family members were literally on their deathbeds, they chose to have Classical MPR playing as a final soundtrack. What would your final soundtrack be? In researching his book One Last Song (buy now), Mike Ayers learned to phrase the question as, "What would you want to hear as your last song on earth?" That made it less about the circumstances of the death (though some of his respondents thought about those anyway) and more about the nature of life.