What final letters, speeches, and messages reveal about legacy—and why you shouldn’t leave yours to chance We have a fascination with “last words” for a reason. Something in us believes that when the clock is almost out, the truth rises to the surface—clean, honest, uncluttered. The final sentence becomes a kind of summary. But there’s …
To die: to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. Hamlet, Act III, scene 1, line 60. He gave his honours to the world again, His blessed part to heaven, and slept …
“The undertaker, Winthrop Ogletree, was waiting in the foyer of the large, rambling Victorian house at the end of the Street of Tides where he practiced his trade. . . . “I’ll get right to the point, Winthrop,” my grandmother said officiously. “I’ll be dying sometime after my sixtieth birthday and I don’t want to …
Regrets
Bluffton Sun
It is never easy to decide to withdraw life support. And, without an Advanced Directive, our families may go through very difficult times in figuring out what to do. The problem became very public in 1975, when a young woman’s loving father had to make the hard decision of how to deal with his daughter. …