What Are Your Final Arrangements?

[lifesaver]

I might have asked this before, but...

If you dont have anything arranged, what would you want your FINAL service to look like?

I dont have anything arranged yet, which has me concerned. I want my final service to be according to my wishes, but I havent laid them out yet. My people tend to be real sketchy about talking about death. I should just put it all in a letter and give it to my sis in an envelope. I knwo I am the executor and beneficiary of their estate, and am the guardian of their son, but they have no idea about my wishes.

I want a nice service, the following songs played/sung (either as a medley when everyone is arriving, or individually during the service), Seek ye first, Ave Maria (the aaron Nevil version.. I think its an amazingly beautiful song), Just a Closer Walk With Thee (with the jazz twist), Here I am Lord, Take My Hand, Precious Lord, but definately ending with Sara McLaughlin's, I will Remember You. (played during the slide show). Anyone related to me that asks for Amazing Grace to be played will be hanunted to the point of insanity. I HATE that trite-ass, stupid overplayed song. If Sally fat ass struthers is now using it to make her buck off the starving kids in guatamala, its just one more reason why it shoul dbe banned from services.

I want anyone who wants to speak to come up and do so. I want it to be informal and open, happy and FUN. Lots of yellow Roses and purple Irises. I want a slideshow done of me at my happy times with all my friends and family and loving life. I want to be buried at Mission Park North cemetary. (Its between SA and Leon Springs and is my favorite part of SA, til I find a cemetary in Grey Forest.) I want my letters on my headstone. Some migh think it trite, but the fraternity has given me such happiness during my life, I dont want to disregard it in my afterlife. I of course want to be burried in my badge, but not in my suit. I want to be burried casually, in jeans or khakis and a nice button down and no jacket. It would be stupid for me to be burried in a suit. I've been dressed up about three times in my entire life. I hate being dressed up, so I better not have to spend eternity that way. And I damn well better be buried in my Red Wings. I've worn them almost daily since 1993. They are as much a part of me now as my name.

After I want the majority of my estate (however much you can get for a really good abercrombie hat collection, lol) spent on an open BBQ dinner and wake at Rudy's where all my friends and family remember me over a great BBQ dinner and lots of my great BS stories are told. I hope I have enough left over to have Dos Equis on tap. extra limes of course. lol.