Why? the most important things in one page

There will come a time when you will go beyond contemplation of your demise and actually realize you should develop a plan. I'm talking about relieving every one of the terrible responsibility of having to deal with your death plus making decisions under the burden of grief. So my wife and I did just that. We preplanned everything and it is bought and paid for. It will be cremation and a grave side inurnment. Now writing your own obituary is in itself and experience, putting something on paper that sums up, briefly what you were. But then what else might be said? This is it.


Kurt Heaton
Favorite quote, poem and philosophy

Robert Kennedy quote

"Few will have the greatness to bend history; but each of us can work to change a small portion of the events, and in the total of all these acts will be written the history of this generation...It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is thus shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."


Poem
Mary Elizabeth Frye

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there. I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond’s glints on snow.

I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the autumn’s gentle rain.
When you awaken in the morning’s hush,
I am the swift uplifting rush

Of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die.


Kurt Heaton Philosophy

Let me remind you of my personal philosophy -"you may beat me, but I am not beaten. I cannot be defeated or beaten by anything or anyone. I will never,ever give in or give up. Even in death I am not defeated".

Remember, "We are what we believe". "We are what we think". If you want to think misery,fear, sadness, depression, that is the person you will be. I choose to lift myself up, not down and so should you.

With love and forgiveness to all and I ask the same from you. Kurt