Sometimes I think about death.
My death.
Sorry if that sounds morbid to you but I bet I am not alone in thinking about mortality every now and then. In an attempt to be responsible, we purchased a "making a will" kit several years ago. It is still in the drawer, unopened. I'm 'getting to it'.
A lot of thinking surrounding this has to do with me being a nomad. Okay so maybe I am not exactly a nomad, but pretty close. Because our job sees us moving, (however frequent or infrequent is a non-factor) I really have no home. No where that I belong. In a sense, I feel homeless. A villager without a village.
So, in my pensive moments I wonder, "if I were to die today, where would I be buried?" I mean can you just be placed in any old cemetary that has no connection to where you call home? If so, who would come by and place flowers on the stone? What if (as in my case) you have no home?
I was born and raised in one place. We never moved around and that was home for a long time. Then I went off to college, and most of the rest of the family moved out too. It has been so long since I've left, and so infrequent that I've returned, that it no longer feels like home when I go. I am now a visitor.
If I were to be cremated, it would solve the whole dilema of where to be buried. But there is still a problem (in my mind anyway). What about the funeral or memorial service. Would there be one? Where would it be? Who would come? Would anyone come? I've lived in several places with no deep roots in any of them.
I know this sounds ridiculous but it is very much something that lurks around in my mind. I kind of feel like I have to have a plan and take some sort of action to get settled, once and for all and establish a home.
Well that was depressing.
BOO!
Monday, May 08, 2006
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I have no idea what to tell you. I've lived here in Columbus, Ohio all my life, so this is where I'll be buried.
But, does it really matter where our earthly bodies will be buried? Those of us with a relationship with Christ will have a new body and a new home with Him some day!
The irony is--- when it happens, you will once and for all be settled and establish a home.
I recently had the same discussion with Peter - I kind of got a little scared thinking that I have no place to be buried, no place that really is mine - but I was reminded not to stress about earthly matters - the best is yet to come!
Ya know, I wonder this for me and my family. We are in our "home area" but I still don't know where I'll go. I want to be near my parents, if possible - but they will be seperate, I think and my mom doesn't know where she'll go either. She thinks she wants to be at the church cemetary but it's getting so over-full.
All in all, it doesn't matter as our soul will leave our dead bodies and it really dosen't matter where we are. But... I still wonder. Not only for my family but my pets (now that's sad, huh? LOL)
i don't have a home, really, either. and i get that it's not going to be uber-important to ME where my body is . . . but it might be important to people who care about me. so, i figure, i'd want to be buried wherever most of my family is. which, right now, is toronto.
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