Dear Editor,
Louise Morse’s ideas (September en) on thinking ahead to our own funerals are surely helpful and important; they can save much uncertainty or argument at a stressful time. But one phrase concerned me: ‘there is to be no deviation’ from her own plans.
A death may come 20 or 30 years after we set down our choices; so much may change in that time. A new generation has grown up. No-one may be available to play that favourite music; the group who made it popular may long since have disbanded and the song dropped from the evangelical charts, or (the opposite) become stale and trite by relentless over-exposure.
