[Vision2020] Something DEFINITELY Different

[deb]

How about "TomandAndra.forevermore"? Or "dusty but remembered fondly"? Maybe "Final resting place of the restless" or "Been there, done that, now doing this"? Or even "damn, I swore I wasn't going at all"?  Maybe just "Tom is in the bag again"?
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Got to admit at our age we get a bit silly about death, the final frontier. And why not? We will be here a lot longer than today, but today is the day to think about it and make some plans that can't be disrupted by anyone else.....
Debi
PS Mine will be "The whoooo what a ride plastic bag and functional tea urn"......
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 
  Sent: Saturday, August 21, 2010 4:23 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] Something DEFINITELY Different


  Greetings Visionaires -

   

  Over the years I have posted some rather . . . strange (for lack of a better term) . . . comments.  

   

  I hear what you're saying'.  You're probably thinking, "No!  Not Tom Hansen.  Not hard-charging thoughtful Tom 'Brad Pitt' Hansen!"  Well, you would be wrong (but thanks for comparing me to Brad Pitt, anyway).

   

  This one will make those pale in comparison.

   

  A few months ago, Rodna (that's my significant other) and I joined the Neptune Society.  

   

  Instead of going into long, boring details explaining the Neptune Society to y'all, I'll let you read about it for yourselves . . .

   

  "The Neptune Society"

  http://www.neptunesociety.com/

   

  The two things about the Neptune Society that appealed to me are:

   

  1)  It's a lot less expensive than a funeral and a casket (a one-time payment of just under $3,500 covers both of us - absolutely no more payments)

   

  2)  Cremation and ashes seem a lot more appealing to me than slowly degenerating into worm dung.

   

  Well . . . enough with the preface to this posting.

   

  Since the Neptune Society cannot legally store the urns (a law that was passed back in 2007), you guessed it . . .

   

  The urns were delivered to us yesterday.  Here is a photo of one of them.

   

  http://www.TomandRodna.com/Stuff/The_Urn.jpg

   

  And, just like any other product, this came with a short paragraph of instructions

   



   

  Yes.  That's right, V-peeps.  No matter what kindnesses I share (or have shared), feelings I provoke (or have provoked), or relationships I take pleasure in (or have enjoyed) in the past 59 years along with the next 30 years (hey, I ain't leavin' any time soon) . . . after all is said and done, it's the "plastic bag provided with the urn" for yours truly.  

   

  Not only that, but I will be toting it with me until . . . well . . . you know.

   

  So, I have decided that if I am going to be responsible for maintaining the urn, its contents, and the "plastic bag provided with the urn", I might as well give my final residence a name.

   

  Any ideas?

   

  Hey, I told you this was going to be weird.

   

  Tom Hansen

  Moscow, Idaho

   

  "Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down."

   

  - Dick Sharples



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