“If Henry were here, he would have walked out of this funeral,” I said to a friend. Unfortunately, Henry was in the coffin. How best to say good-bye to a loved one?
For the last few years, I have been thinking about funerals. Well, mostly, my own funeral. It is not that I plan on dying soon, but I do think it is best, if possible, to plan everything ahead of time, including meals, diets, travel, conversations and funerals.
I have prepared a list of people who I definitely don’t want to be at my funeral. I have told my husband, more than once, that I will be furious if anyone on the list turns up at my funeral. I know that I have overlooked the fact that it could be hard to be furious when you are dead.
