funeral

“Your grandmother would have hated having some melancholy American-style funeral. So we will celebrate her life and all she’s done—and hopefully we can make her smile.”

“My emerald. My favorite! A gift of great value, from an admirer, long ago. If I die, you can sell. Pay for funeral! If I live—too bad! Ah ha ha!”

By noon the next day, a floral arrangement from the school was delivered to our door along with twelve hundred dollars that the school had collected to help with funeral costs.

Bottom line: If there are urgent funeral expenses, your son can pay them out of the estate funds once he has the legal authority to do so.

Over the past decade, she has been an embalmer, funeral director, hospice worker, and end-of-life therapist.