Ambulance Ride

When you have a serious health issue and are taken by ambulance, you realize that death is just a step away.

Everyone's a saint once they're dead, just read the obituaries

Obituaries

When you see an obituary in the newspaper, there are always three important parts. The date of birth, the date of death and the dash in between. The dates of birth and death are really unimportant. What is important is the dash in between. It is what you do between those two dates that makes all the difference for you and for others.

Funerals

It seems that since I have been in my 70's, I'm always going to funerals. It's like a part time job, with meals.

The major problem with large families.....more funerals.

Once you are born, you are obliged to survive at all cost.

You don't know anything about a person until you read it in the obituary, then you find out what a great person they were.

Nothing makes you think more about your mortality, than the death of a sibling.

Last evening I was watching the evening news

      and I came to the conclusion that the name of the show should be changed to "The Side Effects Half-Hour."  I am of course referring to ads on the show. All the ads are for drugs and at the end of each ad is a list of side effects, which at some times can be more scary than the news. I noticed that after 15 minutes the show goes to one ad per news item. The scariest ad I ever saw was the one that said the cure could cause death. It would certainly cure all your problems. Makes you wonder.