2026

When

IT HAPPENS

 When you're young, middle age or a young senior, which I suppose is anything under 80 or 85 these days, death is a terrible thing. When you get into your 90s, where I am, death is just something that happens. I don't encourage my Facebook friends, all much younger, to read this one. It might make them very uncomfortable that I treat death so lightly

The tree thing

 Oops, you might want to change your mind about using your remains to fertilize a tree.  It is now said that your ashes have zero nutrients that would affect a tree's growth. It was a nice idea anyway.

When a pet dies.

 In a perfect world my pets and I would die at the same time so we could cross the Rainbow Bridge together.

Not Grief Support

Please go no further if you are currently in a state of grief. There are other sites and local help wherever you are.

OH CAITLIN!

I like Caitlin Doughty, the lady undertaker, more all the time. She cracks me up.    If I were in California I would want her to do her thing with my remains.  Caveat: No doubt there are many who find her inappropriate .  Or worse. If you don't like it, don't read it.

When I go ...

Sometimes I think I should reverse my decision to have no service when I "pop off" as the British say.  What a spectacle, what a grand production it would be. Four hours long with breaks along the way. It would be in our downtown theater. Live organ music, wildly eclectic recorded music.  Videos of my glorious career in radio and public life.  Free copies of all the marvelous writing I turned out, including those that got rejected and censored.  But wait!  There's more. After a pause for station identification.  I am getting an idea for a digital gravestone. Wait a minute.  That means I would need a grave .  I must rethink the whole thing.

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You say this is inappropiate? Death is a serious thing? If you make it to 90 you might enjoy being inappropriate about a lot of things. That includes your own mortality.