How someone wants her “goodbye to the world” done, translated…
After seeing a lot of television personnel and famous writers giving themselves wakes, and so, I’d had that specification of Do-Not-Resuscitate on health insurance card, and I’d started carry on in conversations with my son about it, to let him know, that this is what I want to do.
One day, if I get diagnosed with something terminal, I do NOT want to go through the painful treatment procedures without my dignity, I want to host my own graduation ceremony while I still can, I love going place, loved getting photos taken of me, my most charming, active photos are all saved in a collection collage on FB, and all of my travels to various places, also saved on there too.
I will get my own photo for my funeral selected, it must be the one where I looked most sunny in, with my favorite, fresh scented, simple elephant ears, “Youth and Energetic” are what the flowers are a symbol of, just like how I have never-spent energies, and, my never-spent energies will be simple, and lowkey.
Then, I will have the designs of the white, elegant, elephant ears shaped invitations, send them to my friends on my contact list, along with people in my groups, then, have a small tea party, I will be the host, and I will just tell them of my conditions once, and never again, at this time, the memories of my trips shall be playing through the films; and when I’m hospitalized in the future, don’t come visit me, I will use my laptop to play the photos from my wake, and use the memories, in place of the shots, the medications that I needed; and, as I passed, don’t come to look at me, because it would be different compared to me; and then, spread my ashes into my favorite, Mother Nature’s arms, then, I hope, that I will stay that energetic, happy, person that’s full of life in your minds.
And in the end, everybody who wants to say something to me, good, or bad, or in between, I will end it all, right here, then, take away the tapes filmed on this occasions with me, as memorabilia, consider this, my “graduation album” in this lifetime.
And so, this person wants to be remembered, for the active, healthy, optimistic person that she is when she is gone, and, she just might get to, because of her fearless attitude when she faces death, and, she wants the ones whom shed left behind, to remember her but not think of her too often.