Dead and buried

Have you actually planned for the disposal of your earthly remains, or are you expecting someone else will take care of that for you?

This week's theme is mortality.

You can't take it with you

If you were to die unexpectedly, what is the biggest unfinished job you would leave behind, or the biggest mess that someone else would have to clean up?

This week's theme is mortality.

What you left behind

What would you like people to remember about you after you've died? What do you hope they will forget?

This week's theme is mortality.

Reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated

Have you ever imagined your own death? How elaborately have you constructed that fantasy? Have you imagined a funeral? Reactions of loved ones?

This week's theme is mortality.

Mortality

Are you okay about confronting your own mortality? Or do thoughts of it — whether it's issues of your health, making plans for your old age, or caring for a terminally ill friend or loved one — make you want to put your fingers in your ears and say "la la la la la!!!"?

This week's theme is mortality.

Here Lies Me

If you had the opportunity to write your own gravestone epitaph based on your life thus far, what would it say?

Here's some inspiration to get you started.

Mortality Mentality

Who was the first person in your life to die? This should be someone personally known to you rather than an idolized public figure. How old were you, and what kinds of thoughts did you have at the time? Was it the first time in your life that you'd confronted your own mortality? Did you just accept it as a natural part of life, something you wouldn't have to personally face for many years? Or did you lie awake at night agonizing over what death meant, or felt like? What did you learn from this initial firsthand experience with death?