Learning To Love You More

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I've always thought of my body as just a shell in relation to my death. I wouldn't want people grieving over a it for too long. I'd have already left. I also don't like the idea of my body slowly molding and rotting inside an airtight coffin encased in hard earth -or the more sanitary- cement. I don't want my remains being a burden to the environment, and just- yuck. I rather prefer cremation. I don't necessarily want to be scattered over anything. I like to think the fire is an efficient and symbolic gesture of me leaving in death and being released from the body. I do want to be buried on our family plot in the Montrose cemetery in Chicago with my grandparents on my father's side and my mother's parent's only a few rows behind that. There are spaces for the rest of my immediate relatives on both sides. I like the idea of being put there with the rest of my family. It's just a shell, I don't really care what happens as long as like- it's not eaten by anything, or left to rot somewhere.