Funerals aren't scheduled.

It's only as bad as you make it.

Sensei says funerals are not really for the dead. They are for those left behind. "The dead are long gone by the time a funeral is held," he told us. "Who would wait when the doors of Heaven are open? Only the living would be foolish enough to still hang around on earth.

We go through life and don't pay attention to God even when he's yelling. Then there are the moments you never expect and can't avoid. It is at those times when you can hear him ever so clearly; even when he's whispering.

All say, how hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live

Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75.