preference: cremated, and interred somewhere people can visit, preferably near other buried family and/or living family.
But I don’t feel strongly. I won’t haunt anyone if circumstances change.
Episcopal service if you choose to have a church service or even if elsewhere. A priest experienced with funerals can help give the event structure. I would like some formality; it helps the attendees, makes the event more serious and set apart from every day.
Funeral poetry and songs: have friends read, assigned or if they don’t know what else to say:
“Sunflowers (instructions upon my death)” by Harry Baker. Change Margate to Lakeland. Take out the couple lines of his favorite song etc.
“Let Me Go” by Christina Rossetti
“All is well” by Henry Scott Holland
“She Is Gone” by David Harkins
“Keep Me in Your Heart” by Warren Zevon (play this song, don’t have someone read it)
Things I’d like to be remembered for: mother of Peter and Eleanor, wife of Sean, friend, daughter, niece. Hostess. Reader. Baker. Collector of trivia, especially presidential and USA history. Board game enthusiast. Puzzle solver. Craft never-finisher. Amateur art historian. Jane Austen enthusiast. Occasional poetry enthusiast. Lover of knowledge. Researcher. Word lover. Future reincarnated otter.
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