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It's best to write up one's final wishes (living will (especially), legal will, funeral service details (if you want)) before actually dying. And it was one of my 101/1001 goals, so here's a pass at them: Death Wishes.

I'm not worrying about making a proper legal document, at least until I have more valuable stuff. Am I missing anything important? Have you taken a different approach to doing this?

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Two appeals, neither having to do with the process of being cremated. First, the alternative has me smelling up some spot in a cemetery for a hundred years at added cost to my relatives (or whoever). It seems like an imposition on the living to try to give such royal treatment to a ball of dead flesh. What's left behind after I die doesn't mean much to me. But if there such a thing as a soul, and if it is attached to this fugly container of mine, then it's sort of a final spiritual journey to have my ashes scattered. I feel like my whole life is a kind of waiting-for-death, when I finally get to be one with the universe (maybe), and cremation and scattering is a way to kick me out the door.