I was telling a friend of mine a few hours before the news of Mr. Cain 's passing was announced that I'm glad I'm not rich and/or famous. All the pomp and ceremony for Mr. Lewis. And he was carried around from place to place. Not me. When it's my time, I want to be buried as soon as possible and be done with it. No visitation, no service, no reception afterwards. The time to honor someone and be good to him or her is when that person is alive, not when he or she is dead.
Maybe Mr. Cain's arrangements will be more subdued. I hope so.
@ApplewoodMe too, man.
I want to be cremated and gone.
Mostly because of my view of time.
If time is, more or less, infinite?
Then no matter where I am buried, eventually in 10,000 years or so, a city will be built over me and I will be 'discovered', excavated, and studied by future archaeologists. I'll pass on all that.
Ashes to ashes...is good enough for me.