It’s Your Funeral

“One Saturday morning in August of 2021, more than 200 people assembled in an Arlington church for the funeral of Richard Hanneman, a onetime Capitol Hill staffer and longtime trade association executive who died of lung cancer at the age of 78. Four of Hanneman’s seven children spoke at the service. So did two of his grandchildren and his best friend…But the most compelling presence was the third speaker on the program, a white-haired man in a dark suit. Dick Hanneman himself.” Dan Pink in WaPo (Gift Article): Why not attend your own funeral? (I hate going to out to social events. The one good thing about death is that it provides a perfect excuse to RSVP No.)