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I Am Preparing for My Death
I am not brooding on it, I am not obsessed, but the thoughts do come more frequently. It’s my time to prepare.
I’ve been thinking about my death recently.
I don’t mean obsessively; it’s more like realizing that Spring is coming soon, and I should start getting the garden plot ready, buy fertilizer, clean the garage, whatever else needs to be done to make ready for planting. That’s what I am thinking about: is everything ready, can I make it easier for my wife, my children?
I know that some of this is because I have been scanning old family photos that recently surfaced. Many of these go back to the earliest days of photography and are labeled with family names. Others are more recent: my parents, their parents, aunts, and uncles.
All of these people are deceased.
I’ve been adding their photos to Wikitree, a genealogy site. The records are already there, thanks to the work of a close cousin. I’m attaching photos not available to him when he did the original work, or maybe because it was so much work, he has no energy for more. I have the photos; I have the energy, I have the time.
Because our family took the trouble to write a few things down here and there, we have details on some of these people…
