None of us know the day or the hour – but we can make ceremonial choices for the inevitable, because if you’re human on this Earth, you will ultimately die to leave This World for the Next. You will have family and friends mourning your loss, and they will need a ceremonial structure to do this: you want them to be able to create the best memory and blessing to draw on after your funeral is over and they are moving through their grief. The people that I’ve worked with to plan their services did such beautiful work, deep and profound, and years later I still have people drawing upon the memories of the service as if it was yesterday, it’s still all so vital and clear. People have come to me when they’re terminally ill, and know their time is limited.