What Is Your Legacy?
It is not only Presidents and world leaders that leave a legacy behind. I think that each one of us will leave a legacy to our children, family and friends that we leave behind. You can define that and work on it just like a President does before he leaves office.
I have taught my grandsons a little about bird watching. We go on nature walks together. We enjoy the outdoors. One of my grandsons even asked me when he came over to visit “Grandpa, can we go for a walk and pick up some garbage?” We each take a grocery bag with us and as we walk through the neighborhood we pick up the trash that people have discarded. And yes, people still throw their garbage out the window when they drive by.
One of the legacies that I am going to leave behind for my grandchildren is that I care about the environment. Lately, I have been researching the possibility of having a green burial. When I die, I want to leave with little or no disruption to my friend, Mother Earth.
Here is the plan. Hopefully, I will have some notice that I am going to die, but not too much. I want to die at home and not in the hospital. I want to have some time while I am still lucid to say goodbye and to make some last arrangements with bills and paperwork. I also want to make sure that I have a funeral arranged so that it is not a burden on the family. I would then like to have the services in my home, with no embalming fluids that are toxic to the environment and the water system. After I die, I would like to use bio cremation to reduce my body to bones because it uses less energy and does not spew pollutants into the air. The bones will be reduced to ashes, similar to a regular cremation and these will be returned to the family. The ashes can then be spread in a favorite park on onto a favorite lake so that I will not be using any land that has to be maintained for years and using a valuable piece of real estate for storage. I will also avoid an expensive casket that is a waste of resources.
If you want to leave your own legacy behind and are doing some planning, visit preparingtodie.com for some ideas.
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