ok read the disclaimer...it is dark comedy...
" A Field guide to burying your parents "
It is comic fiction about the hawkes family who needs to do the unthinkable...and it travels along with them in this act..the ups the downs the downright outrageous....and unbeleivable...
author Liza Palmer
Ok just some food for thought....last wishes can not be in wills,,wills by the time they are found, probated, etc are usually long after the ummm decesed body has been disposed of.
Best thing to do if u want certain things doen is do prearrangement and sign the legal documentation entrusting a Power of Atty for the final wishes to someone u trust...(course it doent matter cause not like u will know)
I urge people to make their own arrangmentsnot to make sure u get what u want..but mainly to make it a little easier on the survivors. My father died very suddenly and not only did we have the shock of his loss to deal with,,,we had to in that shock,,pick out a coffin, a burial site, and all the stuff that goes with it. For years the only membry i had of my fathers funeral was the "casket shopping room" and my brother, mother and i looking at ourselves when the Funeral director mentioned that the one he was pointing to had 3 inches of padding in the mattress...we all looked at each other and could only nod ...thank goodness my uncle stepped in and said...lets look over here....and guided us to more appropriate areas of concern..and told the director we were not interested in hermeitclly sealed, fire resistant, rust resistant, mildew resistant....options.
