Arrghhh

Dear Everyone: You want to do something nice for your family? Something really nice and sweet and helpful? Well, here's my suggestion: Even if you feel that death is far, far from you (and I most devoutly hope it is), still and all, take some time to think through, write down, and give to someone trustworthy a document outlining:
--what kind of a funeral you would like to have;
--stuff you might like to have read, chanted, printed up and handed out, or enacted by means of interpretive dance at said funeral;
--the music you would like to have played (bonus points to those who actually burn a CD containing this music, so that your survivors are not left haplessly wrestling with both their grief and recalcitrant computer technology);
--who should be notified of this event (bonus points if you include some means of contacting them, or at least a general indication of what part of the globe they might be inhabiting);
--who should act as emcee, chief officiant, or general wrangler for this event (bonus points if it is someone mentally organized who actually answers his or her *phone* once in a while).
( Whom the gods would destroy, they first put in charge of organizing a funeral for someone who neglected all of the above. )

(no subject)

(Footnote to previous rant: This would all be much simpler if I were not simultaneously and concurrently experiencing Bronchitis: The Special Remix Edition, Now! With Extra Hacking!) (OK, </self-pity>.)