{"id":3443,"date":"2014-08-31T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T17:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=3443"},"modified":"2014-08-31T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-08-31T17:00:28","slug":"death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shawnna.org\/?p=3443","title":{"rendered":"Death"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I prepare to take my sister’s cremated remains<\/a> to New York for interment near her son Vincent<\/a>, it hit me how our life ends compressed into 9 inch X 7 inch X 5 inch box.<\/p>\n

In my guest bedroom, I have items I brought home after clearing out my sister’s rental house.\u00a0 Her important papers, photos and jewelry she treasured, collectible things she got when our father died; those kinds of things we think we need to keep.<\/p>\n

One of the things I brought home is a huge, framed professional photo of her in her wedding dress.\u00a0 She was such a beautiful bride.\u00a0 She was always so photogenic too.<\/p>\n

Then I looked over at the box of her cremated remains and I had to sit down.<\/p>\n

\"Regina-Wedding-Cremated8-31-2014\"<\/a><\/p>\n

What does it mean to live a meaningful life?<\/p>\n

When this experience of mortality ends, how do I want to be remembered?<\/p>\n

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