Yeah, Steve, people oughta be more accepting of death, and they would be if they weren't so danged scared of it themselves. I've always admired societies where death was seen as a noble crossing rather than as a defeat (which it certainly is not).

I would like to do away with all the funeral homes and such bureaucratic nonsense, and give people Viking burials on burning pyres, personally...with all their friends and relations there to give them a glorious sendoff.

I haven't heard any news on Gord, which probably means he's doing okay...

- LH