Each Day & The End

"Youth is wasted on the young."

I would ask some questions:

• How do you wish to be remembered -- and in what fashion?
• Do you wish to be buried? And where?
• Do you wish to be cremated? And what to happen with your ashes?

My decision, made at least 40 years ago, is this: I would like a nice party for my friends, nice food, drink, music, laughing. And then, as I refuse to take up, with my death, room for the living, I will be cremated.

However, only recently have I realized what I want done with my mortal remains:

After cremation, then:

I want to have my ashes placed into a coffee tin with a note, and that tin placed through the open door and onto the deck of a railroad boxcar in the Roseville Union Pacific yard.

And from that boxcar, I want my remains to take the national ride that I never would have gotten otherwise. I want to see the Rocky Mountains, the plains of the midwest, maybe the southern coasts, the leaves falling from the trees of Vermont in autumn. I want to be exchanged on numerous trains and see my country.

Life is an adventure; maybe, with luck, I'll continue that adventure.

And you?

BZ