I do know a few of you have been conscious that part of my current go to to my Mums was to for her to share her needs concerning her funeral. At 93 she is in amazingly good well being and has by no means needed this dialogue. Nonetheless up to now 12 months it has been creeping into dialog. However extra alongside the traces of what she doesn’t need’. No non secular service….no graves….no hoards of individuals she by no means sees… So what would you like was the query?
Mum being Mum, now has a quite simple, characterful and pretty non-public plan in place.
Personal cremation, her personal letters to her necessary folks. Her ashes alongside along with her late husband/my stepdad to be despatched out to sea collectively on a burning Viking Lengthy Boat. Only a few, speedy household solely, current. A good looking native seashore, the positioning of many household events/holidays the venue. Timing might be as versatile as her necessary folks want. Possibly a final household vacation at her cottage by the ocean, earlier than all of us transfer on as soon as extra.
The boat is gorgeous, engraved along with her selection of phrases.
‘We wont cry as a result of it ended, we’ll smile as a result of it occurred’
Its nice to have one thing so stunning and ideal deliberate. Now we will get on with residing life to the total. Mum comes out to Croatia, the place we’ve our subsequent prolonged household vacation in Might. They’ll congregate in 2 chalets while we anchor off the seashore. I hope her boat stays excessive and dry for a very long time but.
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