What to tell Relatives While You’re Still Healthy Enough to Tell It

Many years ago — I think I was around 25 and, if we disregard my idiotic Marlboro pack-a-day smoking habit, very healthy — my mother shocked me with a single question:
     “How do you want to be buried?”
     I remember looking at her, slack-jawed. In the first place, I thought this hardly the question for [...]