Quoting Joe Mackey to Nancy Backus on 08-30-19 07:35 <=-
I think there's a third as well.
Perhaps the One that rose from the dead and ascended into heaven to
return again some day....? :)
Nope. He died as well, remember? :)
Ah, but his was just temporary.... If you don't count him, then there's
only the two....
he'd been checked at midnight... at 2, for the next check, he was
gone
That's the way I wanna go. Quick.
I may have mentioned this story before.
When I was about 40 a group of us were discussing our mortality.
I mentioned I didn't want to be life support and hoped someone would
pull the plug. Everyone's hand shot up to volunteer saying they would
be happy to do it. :)
Hmmmm.... <G>
parish and lived out of town as well.)
The body was brought back for burial...?
Yep.
Then there was time to have arranged for the office at the same time as arranging for the transportation....
phone call could have been made right after the death... there had to
be some elapsed time there....
I'm sure there were several days between the two she could have made arrangements.
Yup, as I just said above...
She probably figured, from her attitude, people were to jump at her command.
Apparently....
We did have the burial service for each of my parents within a few days
of the death
Like your father, our then pastor was with my father when he died
and told my mother he would handle everything and shortly after the
time of the church funeral and all.
That was good of him... :)
I was involved in my mothers services.
My brother is not religious and knew no clergy.
My mother died early on a Monday morning and I contacted my then
rector later that day asking when would be a good time for him and a simple grave side burial.
It was done "by the book", literally, so nothing special was needed.
She always said she didn't want anything special anyway.
My parents and family have always been lovers of the hymns of the
church... we sang quite a few at Daddy's services, and after he was
gone, Mommy started a list of hymns that she wanted to be sung at her
services (burial and memorial)... When she died, she had a list of a
dozen... That last night when I sat vigil with her, I worked over that
list to decide which to use when... we sang 5 of them at the burial
service a few days later (since the burial was held so far in advance of
the formal service, we had a more involved service graveside than
usual), and then the other 7 at her memorial service the following
month... :) I worked out scriptures to go with them, and gave the whole
thing to our pastor when he came to visit later in the day... :) Other
than that, it was also done by the book... :)
ttyl neb
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