Donating your body to science could also be a very good option for someone who wanted to donate organs, but couldn’t because of disease or medication, or whatever else. This would still be a way to help people. (I’d never really thought about it before.)

On the day of the Service, there was a conversation about other schools. I believe the instructor had mentioned that, to his knowledge, IU Northwest was the only school that held a service (and they had only been holding one for maybe six(?) years.

That prompted me to ask about the attitudes found at other schools. No one could say that every school in the country was comparable, but to their knowledge the norm was respect, reverence and gratitude.

I had that conversation. I included it in the post. That’s all.

Thanks for the question.

I obviously never knew your father, and honestly, I don’t think I ever really knew your mother, for she had had her stroke before I’d had a chance to meet her. But I find them (well, mostly Anne, because I have heard more about her) fascinating. And I often really wish that I had known them.