*Welcome Elizabeth Fournier, author of The Green Burial Guidebook!

Woohoo, thank you, Elizabeth! I'm so excited to read your book and have it as a resource for me and my loved ones.

Congratulations Guys! Very envious!

I've experienced alot of death in my life, and certainly one day it will be my own. Without getting into the whole thing, I'll just say I've learned a lot about it. Most of it amusing.
My sister and I took my dad's ashes up in a Cessna 172 that I was flying at the time and sprinkled him (yeah, illegal) over Green Bay, Wisconsin, his favorite place. I'm the funeral singer so I sang Amazing Grace and flew the plane. If that weren't funny enough, as we passed the bag back and forth sprinkling a little out at a time, the wind sucked the bag out of my sister's hand with the last quarter cup remaining and she was quite sure he'd be trapped in there forever. She was devastated. I was howling.
The really hilarious bit came after we landed and gathered our things, and found a nice dusting of dad all over the back seat and all down the fuselage in a long gray streak. He would have loved it, and it remains one of the funniest moments in my life.

Thank you so much, Elizabeth Fourneir, for bringing your wisdom to Permies!  I will look forward to reading your book.

Welcome, Elizabeth! This is a frequent topic, for hubs & me, because in the last few years, we've each lost a parent, and so have several of our friends, plus both of our surviving parents have had a couple close calls, and with us being bikers... well, we are highly aware that 70+ mph on 2wheels puts us both at a much higher mortality risk, than being in a box, on 4wheels. I'm looking forward to learning from you!