What do you want to be when you die?

Dear friend, let's think about our future bodies

Death and Life, 1908, by Gustav Klimt

Hi Maura,

What do you want to be when you die? Or more specifically, what do you want to happen to your body? Would you want your body to be turned into soil, ash, a tree, mushrooms, coral, a star?

I’m grading papers for a class this term called Approaching Death. You and I don’t particularly talk about death while we…