if_i_died_before_graduation girl_jane I'd want my funeral simple-like my grandparents'. Maybe even a bit more simple. With the casket like theirs'. Use my baby blanket to cover me. Play music I listened to, not just sad 'somebody just died' music. I'd want wildflowers and dandelions and other off-beat flowers instead of roses and such. If it's warm, dress me in my red polka dot skirt with some t-shirt. If it's cold, my yellow dandelion sweater and my jeans with the tie. Make sure my hair is curly and red. I'd want family and friends seated in the front-then the rest of my class. I'd want the ribbons red, orange, or yellow-fire colors. Have a bon-fire after you bury me, and imagine me dancing in the fire, keeping you warm. If possible, somebody play the guitar, and everybody can sing. Try to make sure people don't wear all dark colors to my funeral. Unless you wear them on a daily basis, like Bobby, wear something you'd wear on a daily basis. Name a goldfish after me. My mom gets first dibs on what of my things she wants. Then my sister. Any gifts I received go back to the person who gave them to me. After that, it doesn't matter who gets what, but don't argue over anything. Whatever is left, donate to AHS drama-they always need props and costumes. Make sure CCP doesn't steal it! Don't foget to clean any bird poop off my grave stone. Plant dandelions or wildflowers or something other than just plain grass on my grave, and make sure they don't get mowed over or killed. I wrote this because I've always had a strange feeling I'd die before I'm 25. I know it's weird, and you may think I'm a freak. I hope you're right, but this is just in case you're not. 020528 ... dB I have exactly the same thing. So I just get on with living and learning. I'm being cremated, no memorial, no service. just pour me in a garden or something and I'm sweet. So don't worry about it. 020528 ... Eowithien Don't worry about it, I've written a will several times. girl_jane, do you live in Arlington? 030805 ... girl_jane Arlington? No...I don't. Why do you ask? 030805 ... woOzy yknow i never expected to survive past my high school grad , we all got kicked out of school on the last day, we never had our graduation, now in uni im just living a life i had never planned for or anticipated .. its fun not knowing whats going to happen next 030806 ... Eowithien cause AHS stands for Arlington High School, or at least, here it does. If I died before graduation... I'd want only my friends and close family to come to the funeral. I haven't quite decided on burial yet...Being buried scares me, but so does cremation. I would want them to play my favorite songs at the funeral home. I would want my friends to read things about me, perhaps go through my journals and find excerpts (not sure about that either). I would want everyone to wear their favorite outfits, not black, even if black is their favorite color. I would want my old friends to come, and my friends from camp. I would want the garden to be kept tidy after I'm gone, I would want my bush/tree to remain standing. I would want all of my money to be donated to different organizations (Alzheimer's, Breast Cancer, some heart association and something for Downs Syndrome). If I have a lot of money, I want some of it to go for Nika's college or Elias' eduacation. My belongings... I suppose I'd let my parents decide what happens with them. If they choose to give them away or whatever..I'd want my family and friends to get dibs on it. First my sister, then my mom and dad and Baba, then my best friends. Elias could have all my stuffed animals. :) I think the main thing I would want if I died before graduation would be for people to remember the happier parts of my life and whatever influences I made on them. (I would want my grave to be visited every year on the same day... preferably on either March 4th or the first day of Autumn). I hope I get kissed before then. 031129 what's it to you? who go blather from