Editor’s note
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t is said there is nothing more certain than taxes and death, and yet, while we are quite happy to moan about the former, we are still reluctant to get too close to the latter. As Julie Lake points out this month, we plan everything in life and yet don’t like to think about our last hurrah which would lift a huge burden from those closest who have to deal with it in the midst of grief. Many say they would be happy to just leave without saying goodbye. A friend was recently telling me that a friend of hers had died just after Christmas and when, a few weeks later, she still hadn’t heard about a funeral date, she called the widow only to learn there was to be no funeral at all. He didn’t want one.
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Contents She said it was very hard to fully accept he was even dead, which reminded me of the woman who had asked to have a party instead of a service. The party wasn’t a barrel of laughs without her and everyone left feeling empty because they needed the closure that mourning can bring. It’s a human condition that we want to cry before life goes on again. Having once worked in the funeral industry for a number of years, I have seen celebrations of lives well lived and today’s services not only permit, but encourage, that. If you like rock music, have it played. Find the blend of respect, mourning, tears and laughter. Only you can do that when you make your plans. Yes, it is a morbid and maudlin topic but it’s inevitable and it is real. So, on that matter-of-fact note, we move back to life and living it up, which I recently did on the long-haul to visit my daughter in Dublin. Flying business class is something we all need to try at least once in our lifetime. I’ve recorded the experience in the travel section. Bon voyage.
Dorothy Whittington, Editor
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