My husband's employer changed our insurance options, only offering a plan that's practically useless. We're not in agreement with "universal" healthcare, so we're in the market for insurance when we find a plan we can afford, hopefully soon. But now his hours are being cut, and I'm just beginning a temporary position that doesn't offer insurance unless I become a full-time worker. At any rate, it has us thinking even more about death and burial, etc.

In addition to missing me if I were to die, he has at times wondered aloud how he'd give me a proper burial if I died. He worries about me if I'm driving too. I joke with him and tell him if he finds me at the side of the road dead, then just know I'm with the Lord and bury me in a wooden crate if he has to! Wouldn't bother me a bit, because I wouldn't be aware of it anyway! lol. But I do have a couple of requirements I hope he will follow through on.......

When I did, bury me deep

Place a Bible at my feet

'Cause on that I will still stand

though I lie flat upon the land.

 

 

Don't you dare cremate my body

I want my 6 feet of ground

Visit there once in a while

lay a few flowers all around.

 

 

I don't need my ashes scattered

Oh you bet that will matter!

You couldn't find me in that case;

Never forget my voice, my face.

 

 

If you re-marry, I won't know

but promise me you will go

by yourself to my grave

and not with HER, you fickle knave! (haha)

 

 

Think of me once in a while

Wipe a tear, then wear a smile

Keep my memory alive

to each son and grandchild.

 

 

It doesn't matter about the rest

where or when I'm laid to rest

just don't forget me

and do your best.

 

 

When I die, bury me deep

hold my hand and kiss my cheek

wipe your tears and say a prayer

promise someday you'll meet me there.