Are you prepared for the Grim Reaper?

[JanetLG]

Changing,

The music I'd like at my funeral is the same music I had at my wedding - Enya, Chris de Burgh, and Graham Kendrick's 'Shine Jesus shine'.

Nothing dreary!

And none of that 'don't send flowers' stuff - I want my funeral to be OVERFLOWING with flowers!!


Janet

[Leah]

Changing,

The music I'd like at my funeral is the same music I had at my wedding - Enya, Chris de Burgh, and Graham Kendrick's 'Shine Jesus shine'.

Nothing dreary!

And none of that 'don't send flowers' stuff - I want my funeral to be OVERFLOWING with flowers!!


Janet

Dear Janet,

Love Graham Kendrick's "Shine Jesus Shine"
 
Flowers are surely part of the celebration of a life - which is what I want my service to be, a celebration of life with music that's alive with joy.


Enya - have her CD's .... she really is most talented.


Love, Leah

[lighter]

I always planned to donate my body to the closest research facility.

They can take what parts still work and research whatever it is that killed me afterwards.

Cremation to follow.

[Ami]

For me, if I could have ONE spiritual wish,it would be NOT to be afraid of death. People who are not afraid of death live fully.
  My former cop b/f was not afraid of death at all and he had a vitality for life. He had a NDE when he was young. He almost drowned.
  I SHOULD not fear death,but I do.                       Ami

[lighter]

::sitting quietly next to Ami::


Izzy.... I don't know what I heard when I read your OP.

You sounded kind of amazed that you had that news to give to your siblings?

Amazed that your father bestowed it upon you.



Not sure but..... it was a good story and all that work built a strong fine disciplined young woman.... it wasn't wasted.

[Ami]

LOL( Do I dare?)                                                                 

[Leah]

Just got back home after grocery shopping in the teaming rain and after changing my soggy attire    sat down with a hot drink and checked my personal emails on my computer .... to find that a dear friend had sent me this beautiful email ... and so I just thought that I would share.   Love, Leah


Below is a wonderful poem Audrey Hepburn wrote when asked to share her "beauty tips"

It was read at her funeral years later ....


For attractive lips  -  speak words of kindness

For lovely eyes  -  seek out the good in people

For a slim figure - share your food with the hungry

For beautiful hair -  let a child run his/her fingers through it once a day

For poise -  walk with the knowledge that you never walk alone


As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands; one for helping yourself and the other for helping others

[isittoolate]

Izzy.... I don't know what I heard when I read your OP.

You sounded kind of amazed that you had that news to give to your siblings?

Amazed that your father bestowed it upon you.

Hi lighter
I was beginning to think everyone had just read the title of the thread.

Yes, I was amazed that I knew something that the others didn't. That's a definite. All my life I thought they knew it all.

Not amazed at dad's buying all the plots at once as it might have been a habit off the time--but maybe one he could ill afford.  Maybe because I knew it for 50 years before it needed to be said out loud (leads back to only I knew it)

It is possible that mom never told me, but that I overheard it. Why would she tell a 7-8 year old?

I just thought it was so darned interesting!

thanks
Izzy

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[changing]

Hi Izzy-
 
Maybe you learned about the plots from all of that snooping and investigating! Good for you, Detective Izzy!

Lighter-

Thank you for teaching us that song- I will use it like a charm to ward off thoughts of Bagworm!!!!

Leah-

I love those sentiments-Audrey Hepburn knew of what she spoke, as she went hungry as a child in wartime Europe, and devoted herself to alleviating  the suffering of little ones.

Ami-

Of all the creatures, we are supposed to have the most consciousness of the inevitability of death. We will all sit with you and Lighter and just BE together in the moment- life is too brief!

Love,

Changing

 

[Hopalong]

Izzy,
Your visuals are magic.

xxoo
Hops

[Leah]

Leah -

I love those sentiments - Audrey Hepburn knew of what she spoke, as she went hungry as a child in wartime Europe, and devoted herself to alleviating  the suffering of little ones.

Dear Changing,

She has always struck me as a genuine woman possessing grace - an inner beauty

Knowing now that had she devoted herself in alleviating the suffering of little ones only serves to affirm the hidden beauty of genuine selflessness.

Sincerely, thank you for sharing.

Love, Leah

[lighter]

Oh Izzy.... seeing your smiling little faces there in little cotton farm dresses is like having a hammer ping at my soul....

I just can't fathom hurting trusting little dependant children..... can't fathom making those little faces grimace in pain or scream in fear.

Is that you holding your little brother in the one picture?

[isittoolate]

Ah lighter

Sweet little farm children, the eldest holding little Johnny in the summer of his year Feb-Sept, at the home of my teacher when there was a ladies meeeting.

That is me, the emptyhanded little one missing her teeth, age 7....who remembered that deal, and not every day of my life.  I think I thought of it at least when dad was buried there in 1986...maybe times I drove past...very seldom.......
wondering how many people were dead in there, then realized they all were.

Love
Izzy

[lighter]

(((Hopsey)))

He lived 8 months?

(((little Johnny)))



Changing.... what song?  Remind me, lol.



::getting up quietly and walking on:::.   

[Leah]

May I extend a very warm welcome as is my custom     to you Izzy * now *   

Love, Leah


PS.  You've been Izzy * now * for some time