The natural process of death has not been something visited on me or my family very often. Not sure why, but some folks I know seen to attend a funeral every couple of months.
I HAVE dealt with the passing of my mother last year, and had an active role in that funeral service, and last week attended the visitation for a friend that suddenly died. The two funeral home experiences have convinced me of this: I don’t want one.
‘Don’t mean I want everyone to just forget me, what I don’t want is an open casket funeral. Both the people I just mentioned were in their final years, and disease had had it’s way with their physical form. The individual in the box was not even a close approximation of the person I will always remember.
Just to show I’m not being self-effacing or introvert or whatever, I’m all for a token for friends and family to remember me; build me a statue about 120% life size (I’ve always wanted to be over 6 feet tall) in some kind of heroic pose – maybe with an electric guitar in my hand. The plaque might say “Five chords and a dream”. That will make strangers wonder, ‘might make everybody wonder.
I HAVE dealt with the passing of my mother last year, and had an active role in that funeral service, and last week attended the visitation for a friend that suddenly died. The two funeral home experiences have convinced me of this: I don’t want one.
‘Don’t mean I want everyone to just forget me, what I don’t want is an open casket funeral. Both the people I just mentioned were in their final years, and disease had had it’s way with their physical form. The individual in the box was not even a close approximation of the person I will always remember.
Just to show I’m not being self-effacing or introvert or whatever, I’m all for a token for friends and family to remember me; build me a statue about 120% life size (I’ve always wanted to be over 6 feet tall) in some kind of heroic pose – maybe with an electric guitar in my hand. The plaque might say “Five chords and a dream”. That will make strangers wonder, ‘might make everybody wonder.
We saw that statue in person on our visit to Memphis last April
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