I am a little strange...

I admit it.

A conversation with a friend today has inspired this post.

I am not going to have a funeral when I die. In fact, I am donating my usable organs then my body to science. My friend thinks that this is just horrible. She said that people want to pay respects to me. How dare I not let them? I tried to explain to her that if someone wants to respect me then they should respect me when I am living.

My thoughts are this: I am dead. At that point I am not going to care who 'respects' me and honestly I feel it is a big waste of money for my husband or whoever else is is going to pay for it. I don't want my husband to spend $10,000.00 to put me in the ground. I do not care what happens to my body or where it goes. My soul is going to be with Jesus. I do not want people to waste money on flowers that are going to sit and wilt.

I am going to write a note of my last wishes so my husband will not be blasted about how mean he is, if I should die before him, and he doesn't have a funeral for me. :) These are the highlights:

*Donate all usable organs
*Donate my body to science (unless they charge. If they charge, find something free to do with a dead body)
*Instead of flowers. Take that $40 and treat a homeless person to lunch or dinner. In fact, I want you to sit and eat with them! Don't just buy food and give it to them. Take them and sit with them and talk to them. Get to know them.