How to Live Forever

by Johnny B. Truant

I don't want a viewing. Because the memories and impressions I leave behind are my legacy, I don't want anyone's last memory of me to be me lying in a box. Most people will look at a body at a funeral and say, "That's not the same person," and I tend to agree. I am not my body. Don't mourn my body. Don't dress and parade my body. I am my deeds. I am my actions. Address those, not the husk.