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People with an attitude like yours find themselves scared at the end. There are no plans in place, and their family is handed an extra burden at the time of death due to poor or no planning.

We each owe it to our loved ones to ease the time of our passing. An objective look at your death is not building a pine box. Everyone dies. If you are not ready for it RIGHT now, you never will be.

I'm more concerned with living than dying. When I go to meet my Maker, things will sort themselves out one way or another.

Alot of friends have died, planning their own funeral. Including what song sings them on their way, at least in the ears of their friends. Some songs were happy, some silly, some sad. All had great meaning to the one who passed.

For a long time I knew this would be the song for me. And my daughter, at 17, knows hers....Blackbird, sung by Sarah MacLachlan. It gives us warm, sentimental feelings when we hear it on the radio. At work, you will here me call it, "It's my funeral song!" with delight. A little macabre perhaps, but it gets people thinking about how they want to be remembered.

To me, the greatest thing I could ever be remembered for is being loved, and loving back. My daughter, my loves, my friends. That is the true measure of a successful life, I believe.

My dear friend, dont worry, I'm not being measured for a box, even figuratively, yet. I just want my daughter to know how I would like to be celebrated when I'm gone.

I'm not talking about you meeting your maker, I am talking about the corpse you leave behind. Possibly the estate that must be doled out to relatives.

I think everyone should write a will, just so everyone knows how the estate will be devided up. At the moment I'd be happy for my stuff to be sold and the profits devided up amongst my kith and kin.

I have nothing of any real value to bequeath to my family. I know I'd want either a green funeral or cremation, though. It's pointless for a guy like me to draw up a will. I have no money, no big assets.

I wonder what songs were played at Michael Hutchence's funeral..............

Thats important to tell them. Also discuss what you wish should you be incapacitated.