END OF LIFE: FUNERAL PLANNING (or not)

In his January 16, 2012, TIME article, Over My Dead Body, Joel Stein shares his various and unrelated thoughts about funerals, which got me meditating on my own ideas about funerals. In my end-of-life planning my funeral is literally an afterthought (joke).  It is profoundly important to some.
FUNERAL MUSIC
The first time I gave any thought at all to my own funeral was on a hiking trip in the Adirondacks in my twenties.  My companions (fellow classical musicians) and I stopped… More