Death

Welcome back! I took an accidental break from my blog but I promise I will do better in the future. I hope everyone had a nice Easter. I got lots and lots of candy that I so want to eat but I'm doing pretty good at resisting. My work neighbors I can't say are doing so well as I won't stop pesturing them to eat the candy for me.. Oh well..

I know you are probably thinking my blog title sounds a little morbid this week but once I thought of the topic I knew it was a post I had to make. In case you were wondering, I do my best blog topic thinking in the bathtub. I probably take about 5 baths a day plus my daily shower so lots of time to think. I was thinking about 2 weeks ago about a story a co-worker of mine told me about her friend. Her friend had died over the weekend and she told me he was a very active man in good shape and he had a freak accident and slipped out of the shower and hit his head and died because no one was there to find him. He was 24... He was my age.. The next weekend I was doing some major spring cleaning and was by coincidence, cleaning my bathtub and almost fell while I was home alone. Curt was working and wouldn't have been home for another 8 hours or so. I know it would have been a freak circumstance for the same thing to happen to me but it is not impossible. I got to thinking about what would happen if a freak accident did happen to me. Would I have left my family in a situation where they knew what to do in the following days or would it be a complete diaster?

I have always been one who could openly speak about death and what could happen but I have noticed that I am in the minority on this topic. I find this a little humorous that a culture of people trying to "save my soul" is afraid of what will happen after their soul "has been saved"... I remember trying to tell my mom what I wanted if I were to die young and she would have no part of it whatsoever.. Since I am a little older I can understand why she wouldn't want to think about what could happen to me but it is still always the possibility of something happening.. This will be my plug for life insurance.. I know that I have a policy which has enough money to make sure my family doesn't have to struggle with bills for a long, long time after I kick the bucket... Here is my one insurance plug.. :)

Okay.. So I don't think I know one single person who likes funerals.. I have no idea who thought of the idea.. Let's get a whole bunch of sad people and put them in an awkward room so they can see the upset family and the body of their loved one in a coffin and let's keep the latch open so everyone can look and be creeped out and call it a celebration of their life.. I don't know how a funeral is EVER a celebration. Here is my idea of how people should CELEBRATE my life.. First, have it in a fun spot.. Maybe rent a hall or something.. Let's have Argyle Catering cater some delicious fried chicken and all the fixings that must go with it. Please serve soda, wine, beer, and liquor and everyone who wants to participate should.. Let's put a sporting even on of some sort, preferably the Cardinals. If God really loves me, the cards will win.. (jk.. sort of..) Play some fun music and have a dance.. This is how a celebration should be.. This is much more fun than hanging in a silent room with awkward black outfits on.. I also feel coffins are the most overrated/overpriced items on earth.. I am going to be put in a ground in this box.. A cardboard box will do just fine. I don't want to be cremated (sp?) because I hate, hate fire.. I told Curt that I would haunt him until the day he dies if he does this for you. I am not kidding either.. He knows this much is true :)

I guess what this very random post is trying to get to is that everyone should have a plan and everyone should enjoy their life today.. Not tomorrow.. today.. No one knows when we will be gone so we shouldn't spend our life being the stuffy person in an awkard black suit but the fun person who is in the middle of the dance floor having the time of their life..

I hope you found my post to be interesting rather than depressing.. If not, tell me and I promise to only post on happier subjects. As always, thanks for reading..

H