Some people want to be dressed their best, laid in silk-lined boxes, covered in dirt, topped with stone. Some want to be frozen, preserved, to see a future that will reanimate the dead. Some want to be incinerated, returned to dust and inertness.
I think this is for me: Pencils made from the carbon of human cremains. 240 pencils can be made from an average body of ash – a lifetime supply of pencils for those left behind.
—Carbon Copies by Nadine Jarvis (via The World’s Best Ever)
If you plan to outlive me, please do me this solid. Thank you.