Control

I realize this is a touchy subject but, well, I'm me, so I'm probably going to talk about it anyway. People tend to plan their own funeral proceedings more and more these days. While I can understand that no one wants to leave their loved ones with such a morbid and stressful task, I can't help but think that this is a bit pretentious. Perhaps I'm too comfortable with my own mortality, but I really don't care what happens to my body after I die. I'm pretty sure I won't have any use for it. Other than trying to make things easy on friends and family, the only reason I can really find for planning one's own funeral is control. For the most part we cannot control when we die, but we still try to control what happens to our bodies after we die.