JennyO -- a friend of ours does that recitation at our sessions occasionally. Love it!

Since I can't dispose of my body by slow oxidation in the treetops (I'm afraid of height, anyway), I'm also opting for cremation and scattering. But since I've spent so much of my life studying New England slate gravestones, I really want one as a marker. I'll probably carve it myself if I can't get one of my favorite (living) carvers to do it. Haven't a clue as to what I want on it, though.

Best line I've run into in my meanderings through old graveyards is on the markers for TWO different women in York, Maine -- "She lived desired and died lamented." Probably can't get much better than that!

Linn (the thanatolithologist)