Connecting with family led to talking about “end of life” planning
Posted By RichC on June 30, 2024
Every once in a while my cousin Diane calls or text messages me to catch-up on our lives. She is a few of years older than me, but once you hit a certain age, those “few years” aren’t the same as when she was in high school or college and I was still in junior high or high school.
Our lives now are similar in that recent highlights are trips and travel, grandkids and medical issues. That last one, 
and the fact she just visited the cemetery where most of my family is buried, triggered some conversation about … “have we planned for those end of life decisions?” Neither of us have finalized any of that yet. (my Corbett and Bluhm grandparents cemetery markers above – thanks Diane)
We joked about my dad picking out a plot in a cemetery when my mom was in hospice care as she “needed” to know about it. We were not to speak that he only bought one plot and planned to be cremated and have his urn placed on top of her casket — something worth considering. Diane semi-joked that she was not comfortable with cremation and prefers burial, but that her husband Bert “thinks he wants to be cremated.” She said, “if he’s cremated, I’ll be in the ground all alone for the rest of forever” … but, “well, I know I won’t be there, but my body will!”
In any case, I was nice to catch up on things … something we should all do considering we don’t know how long we have. It also gave me an excuse to post a photo of Diane and my mom from 2012 and an old video.
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