More from “A Rite of Passage”:
- Funeral Music: “Today’s The Day” by Lucy Kaplansky
- Memorial Music: “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea” by Neutral Milk Hotel
- Memorial Music: “Gaudeamus Igitur” is a tongue-in-cheek graduation song that tells us to make the most of life before we die

“This grand show is eternal. The dew is never dried all at once; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.”
Final Messages of the Dying
Will I Die in Pain?















