Living Funeral

When I was writing the list, thoughts of people close to me came first because they would be the first ones that I would want with me for such a time. I think they would want to be there too. They're the ones who have been through everything with me in life and there being there for this too would comfort me. It would also make having a living funeral more fun, morbid though it may be. With them there will be more laughter and really that's all I really want. The people who'd invite me would think the same way. They'd be friends or family, maybe some people I haven't seen in awhile. They'd want to have people around them who want to be there and not have to go through it all by themselves. It'd make the whole process a little less scary.
Writing the list, I thought about how death is an often scary topic, but its something that has its place. I realize that many people are sad, when things like this happen, and I would be too because it seems like an end. It seems so permanant. But when I thought more about it, I rerealized that death may be inevitable, but the point is to live. That's kind of what Morrie had decided to do, to live. So, at my living funeral, I'd invite people who do just that. Because at the living funeral I wouldn't want a solemn atmosphere, I would want the kind people bring when they are just enjoying a good conversation or story and just enjoy the time I have with everyone.

Curiousity-
"dying is what the living do, dying is what the loving do, dying is what, to live, each has to do."

(Alastair Reid, b. 1926)