I Hope You All Die
Why natural death is a good thing, actually, and why you should plan for it now, before it's too late.
I hope you all die, and I mean that with all of my heart. Allow me to explain.
Last month we spent our spring break visiting family, friends, and graveyards.
Against the backdrop of Pope Francis’s death and funeral, my children and I paid our respects at the grave of a dear friend’s infant daughter, who tragically died on her due date last year. She was laid to rest in a rural cemetery in Tennessee, the prettiest one I’ve ever seen.
A few days after that, my mother took us to a few of the local tourist attractions: civil war battlegrounds and soldier cemeteries. It’s strange to learn that the parking lot where you left your car was the site of hours of frenzied, hand-to-hand combat featuring the gruesome point-blank bludgeoning, strangling, and stabbing of thousands of men with bayonets, rocks, sticks, and fists: 10,000 casualties in five hours of combat.
At some of the historic homes in the area that are now museums, you can take tours of …
