As you get older, you have to think about death more and more. Most of us really old types have made our peace with it.
I find that as I age, the number of dead people I commemorate is becoming longer and longer, and some people are losing their individual commemorations. What\'s really awful is standing there trying to remember who\'s still alive and who\'s dead!
I\'ve told my children for years that when I die they should put my birth date and the cause of my death in the newspaper notice, to save themselves a lot of incoming telephone calls.
I work in a very large hospital that takes the most difficult cases, and I often have occasion to make way for a deceased patient being taken to or from Anatomic Pathology.
The funeral homes use snazzy tweed body bags now. I guess that\'s another thing that has changed since I was young.
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